The Moto G40 Fusion is an excellent phone in many ways. You get what you pay for, whether it’s the smooth 120Hz display, clean software, or smooth performance. However, the camera quality is poor, and the phone’s weight makes it an unappealing choice.
Moto G40 Fusion: Price in India
In India, the Motorola Moto G40 Fusion is available in two color options: black and white. Dynamic Gray and Frosted Champagne There are also two storage and two RAM configurations to choose from.
The 64GB+4GB variant costs Rs 13,999/-, while the higher 128GB+6GB variant costs Rs 15,999/-. On Flipkart India, you can save up to Rs 14,600/- on eligible phone exchanges.
Design
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Motorola has decided to go with something like providing powerful features in the phone, including an interesting camera efficiency so that the phone appears bulky. We measured its weight at 225g and its thickness at 9.7mm.
On the front, there are tiny bezels on three sides, but the chin is quite large, though not as large as the chin on the Samsung Galaxy M42 5G, and there’s a punch-hole in the center that doesn’t bother you as much. as a notch would, that’s subjective.
display
The Motorola Moto G40 Fusion comes with the same 6.8-inch IPS LCD display as the Moto G60 Phone. It has a resolution of 1080 x 2460 pixels, which allows you to play Full HD+ videos and games without lags or scratches.
Motorola was able to combine a less expensive display technology with a higher refresh rate to create an IPS LCD panel with a high refresh rate of 120Hz. I would have preferred an AMOLED display with deeper blacks and brighter whites, but there are some tradeoffs when purchasing a smartphone under 15K INR, and here’s the one for the G40 Fusion.
Performance
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The Moto G40 Fusion is powered by a high-performance Qualcomm Snapdragon 732G processor manufactured on an 8nm node. It features a dual-cluster octa-core configuration with two 2.3GHz Kryo 470 Gold cores and six 1.8GHz Kryo 470 Silver cores.
It is currently the cheapest smartphone to run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 732G on a Sub-15K INR smartphone. Without a doubt, the GPU and CPU in the chipset will contribute to impressive processing capabilities regardless of what you throw at it.
cameras
In terms of cameras, the Moto G40 Fusion has a triple camera configuration on the back. This includes a 64MP primary sensor, an 8MP ultrawide sensor, and a 2MP depth sensor. It should be noted that the main difference between the Moto G40 Fusion and G60 is in the camera department.
This rear camera setup can capture 4K video at 30 to 120 frames per second and 1080p video at up to 240 frames per second. There is an incredible camera setup. If you are looking for a camera phone, this is the phone for you.
In terms of the front camera, there is a punch-hole cutout in the middle of the display that houses a 16Mp camera for making video calls and shooting front-facing vlogs.
Former AFL champion Eddie Betts has revealed for the first time the trauma he felt after a “weird” and “completely disrespectful” leadership training camp he attended as an Adelaide Crows player in the 2018 pre-season.
In his autobiography, The Boy from Boomerang Crescentto be released on Wednesday, the three-time All-Australian player says the secretive four-day camp held on the Gold Coast, run by a group he has chosen not to name, left him feeling “like a piece of me was brainwashed ”.
In the book, Betts writes that confidential information he had given in a private counseling session on the camp had been misused, and that the camp co-opted sensitive Aboriginal cultural rituals that offended him, jeopardised the wellbeing of other, younger Indigenous players within the Crows’ playing squad, and affected his family life. He blames it for a lack of form in 2018 that ultimately prompted him to leave the Crows.
“The camp ended up appropriating a First Nations peoples’ ritual of a ‘talking stick’ and attempting to apply it to all of us, even the non-Indigenous players and coaches.
“In my view, the talking stick was used incorrectly, and I was not aware that any Elder had given permission for it to be used either.
“There was all sorts of weird shit that was disrespectful to many cultures, but particularly and extremely disrespectful to my culture,” Betts writes in the book.
Betts says he would have to live for the rest of his life with the shame of having participated in some of the more confronting exercises.
‘It all made me feel really sick’
Betts writes that his first “serious reservations” about the camp began after a compulsory hour-long psychological assessment, conducted over the phone by a person he understood to be a counselor from the mind-training and leadership specialist group.
“We were told that we weren’t to do the interview with our partners in ear-shot and that the objective of the questions was to build a profile about us that we would work through on the camp,” Betts writes.
Eddie Betts with partner Anna and their children.
He says he opened up to the interviewer and divulged what he described as private life experiences, believing that it would assist the specialists to appreciate “the cultural complexities” of his life.
“I thought it would be used to build a profile about me that showed obstacles I’ve overcome to be successful and to play AFL.”
The red flag for Betts was when the interviewer tried to gain Betts’ confidence by claiming familiarity with Aboriginal culture: “He tried to make out as though he was like me, as though I should feel comfortable disclosing to him my trauma.”
Then 30 years old, Betts, who was part of the Adelaide club’s senior leadership group, says he was told the camp would do more than just invigorate his game-day performances. “I was told that I would come back a better husband and father, a better teammate and that I’d get a lot out of the camp,” he says.
However, the Wirangu, Kokatha and Guburn man, who is a father of five, says he returned with feelings of shame and humiliation that left him angry, paranoid, secretive and “feeling drained and lethargic”. Betts says the emotional fallout immediately began to harm his family relationships from him. His partner, Anna, noticed “the extent of my distress”, Betts writes. “Anna noticed I was starting to get snappy at the kids and I started getting really bad anxiety,” he says.
That’s when the couple sat down and talked about what had happened.
The Crows adopt the ‘power stance’ as they face off against Richmond before the 2017 Grand Final.
The ‘power stance’
The Adelaide Crows began working with the leadership training group midway through the 2017 season, Betts writes.
“This mind training was centered, mainly, around us being ‘warriors’ – things like inner-voice, dominance, mindset.”
Betts was reluctant to buy into these early programs and their “one-size-fits-all approach” over players from diverse backgrounds. As a designated leader, Betts felt he needed to check in on the wellbeing of his younger Indigenous teammates.
After the Crows lost successive games in the 2017 season, Betts says the training group reviewed game videos and claimed they had identified where the playing squad had lost these games. At fault was the way players had run through the supporters’ banner onto the ground, they said.
“Apparently, our facial expressions weren’t up to game mode,” Betts writes. The playing group was made to practice their facial expressions, he says.
Another mind-training technique Betts found concerning was intended to emphasize the players’ masculinity. The exercise involved the players forming a circle, making eye contact with one another, and screaming obscenities. Betts says elements of the program make him cringe in hindsight.
Betts warms up prior to the first preliminary final in Adelaide in 2017.Credit:Getty
“One of the young fullas said to me, ‘I see you as an Uncle. I don’t really like screaming “f— you” at you’. In our culture, from a young age, our older people are a model of respect to our kids and we quickly learn to reciprocate that respect back towards our elders. In my view, some of the younger brothers were getting wala [angry] with these leadership specialists.”
“For me, it didn’t make any sense for the leadership specialists to try and increase my angry man energy, or whatever the f— it was they were after.”
Betts writes that on the eve of the 2017 final series, the mind-training instructors devised and implemented a technique for the team to present itself after it had run through the club banner onto the playing pitch. They called it “the power stance”, Betts says, which meant all 22 Crows players and coach Don Pyke standing with their arms down, slightly away from their sides, in a commanding posture.
Betts says the choreographed stance, which was intended to intimidate the game-day opposition, was even practiced at Crows training. The Crows deployed the trick before their qualifying and preliminary finals and came away from each of those games with the win, before slumping to a spectacular defeat in the grand finale.
The grand finale drubbing at the hands of the Richmond Tigers still haunts Betts, but he says some of that may stem from the techniques deployed by the instructors at pre-season training for the 2018 season.
Betts is abandoned after losing the 2017 grand finale.Credit:Getty
“We had some weird sessions pop up. One consisted of us training while the Richmond club song blasted around AAMI Park while we did a gruelling running session.”
A harness and a knife
The technique geared up again when the squad was flown to a training camp on the Gold Coast in late January 2018, Betts says.
He recalls that the camp began normally enough with routine footy training drills, but soon the team was separated into groups, made to surrender their mobile phones and subjected to what he describes as a barrage of verbal abuse and psychological intimidation involving fake weapons.
According to Betts, players were then blindfolded, loaded onto a bus with papered-over windows and conveyed to an undisclosed location as the Richmond team song played on a loop loudly through the bus’s sound system. When the squad arrived at the secret destination, team members were instructed to remove their blindfolds.
Betts says the first thing they saw was a dozen or so burly men, all dressed in black, greeting them with the power stance.
The welcoming committee laid out the camp rules for the bemused players, Betts says.
“Things like, we weren’t allowed to shower… we had to stay sweaty and smell ‘manly’. We also had to keep what they described as ‘noble silence’,” Betts writes.
Camp life, which Betts’ partner, Anna, later told him was “cult-like”, also involved an “initiation process” for each of the participants, an exercise Betts views as cultural appropriation of sensitive traditional Aboriginal ceremonies.
When the time came for Betts to be “initiated”, he says he was again informed that it would make him a man. He was put into a body harness with a rope attached and told to try and fight his way towards a knife to cut himself free while teammates holding the rope physically obstructed him. The initiation also involved the camp instructors hurling verbal abuse at him, he says.
“Things were yelled at me that I had disclosed to the camp’s ‘counsellors’ about my upbringing. All the people present heard these things,” Betts writes. “I was exhausted, drained and distressed about the details being shared. Another camp-dude jumped on my back and started to berate me about my mother, something so deeply personal that I was absolutely shattered to hear it come out of his mouth from him.
At the end of the camp, the players were told that this exercise had provided each other with a safe space and that any issues affecting them were only to be shared with other group members.
“Then we started an exercise that consisted of role-playing our responses to our partners… One of the responses suggested to us was, ‘I feel like a better father and husband, having come from this camp.’”
Betts with his family at the beach, one of the photos included in his new book.
But after sharing his experience with his partner, Betts developed an increasingly deeper sense of regret. He also spoke to his Aboriginal elders about some of the co-opted rituals, and the use of sacred and culturally sensitive words that were used at the camp. The conversations led to Betts and his partner approaching the club’s executives with their concerns.
Betts says he wanted to have the program discontinued to protect other Crows players from the same experiences and to establish an internal support network for some of the other players who Betts says were struggling.
“After a meeting with all the Blackfullas at the club, I decided to address the playing group and talk about how I found the camp, mainly addressing the cultural safety implications for us brothers. I sought permission to remove all the Aboriginal boys from any further interactions with the ‘leadership specialists’ and their mind-training exercises. I told the club I wouldn’t be involved in any more mind-training exercises at all.”
Three weeks later, Betts says he was dropped from the squad’s leadership group. The decision devastated him.
“It takes a lot of work for us Blackfullas to provide other people that we’re capable of leading,” he says.
The Adelaide Crows Football Club declined to comment when contacted by The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
The group that ran the camp has previously said it recognizes “that some parts of the camp didn’t resonate with some players”. However, it said it had received overwhelmingly positive feedback from players and the club at the time, and that the group would have been “fired in an instant” if the camp had gone as badly wrong as some had suggested.
loading
Betts says the effects on him continued into the 2018 season. His on-field form of him slumped with the four-time AFL goal-kicker of the year not kicking a single goal until round three. That season, the Crows failed to qualify for the finals series, and Betts says he was left questioning his playing future of him.
“Personally, I felt like I’d lost the drive to play footy, and to be honest, I’m not sure I ever had the same energy I did before that camp,” he writes.
At the end of the year, Betts left the Crows and South Australia to reunite with the Carlton Blues in Victoria, where he finished his 17-year playing career in 2021 at the club that gave the boy from Boomerang Crescent his debut.
In 2021, a SafeWork SA inquiry made no findings of any wrongdoing against the mind-training specialists.
The author of this article, Jack Latimore, did a “cultural edit” of Betts’ book, The Boy from Boomerang Crescentpublished by Simon & Schuster Australia, released on Wednesday, August 3, 2022. Ali Clarke conducted the book’s research and interviews.
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For a poor kid, having wealthy friends is one of the strongest determinants of economic mobility later in life.
Why it matters: That data point, from a study published in the journal Nature today, underscores the real-world power of friendship.
We know accumulating friends in different stages of our lives can decrease stress, lengthen life, improve our performance at work and even make us better parents.
We know friendships with our neighbors can be the difference between life and death in tragedies and natural disasters.
And now we know cross-class friendships are drivers of wealth and success for less fortunate children.
The big pictures: The study authors did a first-of-its-kind analysis of 72 million Facebook friendships between US adults.
What they found: If poor children grew up in neighborhoods in which 70% of their friends were rich, their future incomes would be 20% higher than their counterparts who grew up without these bonds across class lines.
This was a stronger indicator of future income than factors like family structure and school quality, as well as the racial makeup and job availability in the child’s community.
reality check: It’s not that simple. Friendships across class are increasingly hard to come by in our divided country.
For example, for people in the bottom 10% of the income distribution, only 2.5% of their friends are in the top 10%, Johannes Stroebel, an economist at NYU and one of the study authors, tells Axios.
There are some cities that are doing better than others. In Salt Lake City and Minneapolis, nearly half of the friends of folks in the bottom half of the income distribution are in the top half. But in Indianapolis, only about 30% of poorer people’s friends are rich.
And there are certain spaces where cross-class bonds are built more frequently, Stroebel says. Churches, temples and other religious spaces are in that category.
What to watch: There are big policies — like implementing school busing, diversifying college admissions by class, and increasing the availability of affordable housing — that can increase the prevalence of cross-class friendships.
But we can all make a greater effort to diversify our friend circles.
reach out to people at your place of worship, your dog park or your grocery store.
Meet people through volunteer work around your community.
take your kids to free activities at parks and local libraries that are available to families of all backgrounds and where children can make friends with kids from all walks of life.
Premium Economy cabins are becoming more and more popular among travellers, as they offer the chance to upgrade your flying experience without having to shell out a massive amount of extra cash to do so.
And now Aussies will have another airline to choose from, as Emirates has today celebrated the arrival of its Premium Economy Cabin to Australia for the first time.
A total of 56 Premium Economy Seats are now available on the airline’s twice-daily service from Sydney to Dubai on board its flagship A380 aircraft.
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Emirates Premium Economy Cabin has arrived in Australia for the first time. (Supplied)
Flight EK412 touched down in Sydney shortly after 6am.
As part of the celebrations, passengers received exclusive gifts, including certificates, passport holders, special polaroids, and an individual cake.
Customers have been able to book Premium Economy seats since June 1, with the airline recording a significant demand for this cabin since announcing its debut in Sydney.
The A380 Premium Economy also comes with a dedicated airport experience and check-in areas exclusive to the Premium Economy passengers.
On board you’ll enjoy more legroom and footrests and a separate dining experience with elements inspired by Business Class.
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56 seats are now available on the airline’s twice-daily A380 service from Sydney to Dubai. (Supplied)
It comes after Emirates recently held a national recruitment drive, looking for prospective Australian candidates to join its multinational cabin crew team.
The Dubai-based airline held recruitment open days at three locations across the country last month.
Emirates’ Australian cabin crew member, Laura Garside, says that since working with the airline she has visited 45 countries worldwide and has reaped the many benefits that come with living at the airline’s exciting Dubai base.
“Emirates has provided me with not only a dream job, but the incredible training and resources that have allowed me to fully immerse myself in a new career and foreign country,” she said. “This job has given me my happiest moments, greatest achievements and provided me with the most unique, life-changing experience.”
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Jannik Sinner’s victory at the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag on Sunday did more than earn him a sixth ATP Tour trophy. The win also helped him arise into contention in the Pepperstone ATP Race To Turin.
Sinner climbed three places to 13th in the Race, putting him within 705 points of eighth-placed Felix Auger-Aliassime. Eight men will qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals, which will be held at the Pala Alpitour from 13-20 November.
The 20-year-old competed in last year’s season finale as an alternate after fellow Italian Matteo Berrettini with drawn due to injury. Sinner will now have an opportunity to earn even more points in the coming month, with ATP Masters 1000 events in Montreal and Cincinnati as well as the US Open.
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There was no movement among the Top 12 players in the Race on Monday. However, several players competing this week will have an opportunity to secure or improve their standing as the qualification battle heats up.
Daniil Medvedev is currently sixth in the Race with 2,575 points. The 26-year-old, who is trying to qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals for the fourth consecutive year, can climb past Alexander Zverev and into fifth by making the final at the Abierto de Tenis Mifel in Los Cabos.
The second seed at the ATP 250 event is Auger-Aliassime, who is eighth in the Race with 2,385 points. The Canadian is trying to earn his spot at the season finale for the first time, and he will look to add to his 325-point lead over ninth-placed Taylor Fritz, who is competing at the Citi Open this week in Washington.
The top seed in the United States’ capital is Andrey Rublev, who is seventh in the Race. The 24-year-old holds just a 30-point lead over Auger-Aliassime as he seeks his third qualification for the year-end championships.
Rafael Nadal leads the Pepperstone ATP Race To Turin with 5,620 points and his fellow Spaniard, Carlos Alcaraz, is second with 4,270 points. They are scheduled to return to compete next week at the National Bank Open Presented by Rogers in Montreal.
California and Illinois on Monday declared health emergencies in their states regarding the monkeypox virus.
The governors’ proclamation will accelerate the administration of vaccines, the work of contact tracing, and prevention efforts, officials said.
The White House on Monday night bolstered its footing against the virus by confirming Bob Fenton and Demetre Daskalakis will be announced Tuesday as national monkeypox coordinator and as deputy, respectively.
Fenton helped lead the country’s mass vaccination effort for Covid-19 as the Federal Emergency Management Agency acting administrator. Daskalakis is director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s HIV prevention division.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s top medical adviser, said the pair represents “a really good combination” to tackle an illness that still presents some mysteries, including whether the virus can spread when a carrier has no symptoms.
The day’s moves follow declarations of emergency last week in New York state, New York City and San Francisco.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said in a statement Monday that his move would bring to the fight “a whole-of-government response” that will help fund vaccination outreach and research.
“We’ll continue to work with the federal government to secure more vaccines, raise awareness about reducing risk, and stand with the LGBTQ community fighting stigmatization,” he said.
The proclamation will allow emergency medical services workers to administer monkeypox vaccines, the governor’s office said.
The state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic will serve as a guide to launch vaccine clinics in targeted communities, according to Newsom’s statement.
State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, the author of several laws regarding LGBTQ+ issues, welcomed the declaration on monkeypox. “We need to use every tool we have to control it,” he said in a statement.
In Illinois, Pritzker said in a statement that his declaration will likewise give the Department of Public Health the full power of the state to distribute vaccines and to inform the public about the virus.
The illness “requires the full mobilization of all available public health resources to prevent the spread,” he said in the statement.
The Illinois declaration gives the state the ability to procure vaccines on an urgent basis, the governor’s office said.
The governor’s move “will open efficient lines of communication and cooperation across state lines, an essential step in tracking monkeypox and improving tools and processes to prevent and address it,” Illinois Department of Public Health Director Sameer Vohra said in the governor’s statement.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the declaration was much needed.
“This emergency declaration brings a necessary, increased focus to the Monkeypox (MPV) outbreak we’re seeing here in Chicago, across our state, and around the country,” she said in a statement.
The states with the most monkeypox cases are New York (1,390), California (827), and Illinois (520), according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The vast majority of cases worldwide have been among men who have sex with men, according to the World Health Organization. However, anyone can get it from everyday contact with others, and even with animals, experts say.
Common symptoms include a rash with lesions, malaise, fever and swollen lymph nodes, health officials say. Chills, headache and muscle pain have also been reported for the illness, which usually lasts two to four weeks, according to the CDC.
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AFL fans will know whether Tasmania becomes the 19th team in the competition by the end of this month, Fox Footy’s Jon Ralph believes.
Just a week after reports the Tassie bid had stalled over exactly who would fund a new stadium, Ralph said there’s confidence that a “new vision” for the stadium would broker the 19th license for 2027 and beyond.
Under new estimates, the venue would cost less than $500 million – rather than the initial $750m – and could once again change attitudes towards the potential new club.
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“There will be a vote by the end of the month,” Ralph said on Fox Footy.
“The Tasmanian Government they can secure funding for a stadium believe that’s less than $500m.
“The feasibility study that’s underway with the current taskforce and government won’t be completed by the end of April, but they believe if you have a $500m bill, it would be dollar for dollar.
“Federal government, State government, there’d be some private partnership investment, with a hotel, convention centre, parking of course which would attract some visitors.
“My understanding is the other work streams are basically done, basically ticked off. None of them are game changers. The stadium is the massive issue.
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“So the plan will go to the AFL committee, let’s call it mid-month. It will go back to the presidents to go back their own boards, and then presidents like Jeff Kennett will come to a consensus view.
“We will have a decision either way.”
The new stadium would be based upon the Queensland Country Bank Stadium in Townsville, which was built for $295m two years ago.
For that venue, $140m came from State funding while a further $100m was provided from the Federal government.
Ralph said Tasmania’s stadium would also include a Perspex roof, like Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr Stadium, that would not be retractable.
“We are at the most official, the most important month in the history of the AFL in Tasmania,” Ralph said.
Fox Footy’s Nick Riewoldt, who is a Tasmanian AFL taskforce member, said now was the time for the AFL to choose a side on the 19th licence.
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“Now its incumbent on the AFL to, if they strongly believe Tasmania deserve a 19th license, to lobby that in front of the presidents,” he said.
“We know it’s mixed, some (club presidents) put their flags in the ground before the report had even been tabled.”
The Colin Carter report, on Tasmania’s bid for an AFL team, found the feasibility “stacks up”.
“Gillon McLachlan has said to them, funding will be conditional as long as you are turning sod on the new stadium by the time the team runs out for its first game, that’s acceptable,” Ralph added.
“Before finals, we’ll know (if they get a license).”
Six men were shot, one fatally, during an outbreak of gunfire Monday night in Northeast Washington not far from Capitol Hill, authorities said.
The shooting was reported about 8:30 pm in the 1500 block of F Street NE outside the Azeeze Bates apartment complex, Police Chief Robert J. Contee III said at a news conference Monday night. The five who were injured were taken to a hospital. Their conditions were not known.
Contee said he did not know the reason for the shooting and that the police did not know whether the men knew each other. He said there appeared to be a large group of people in the area when the shots were fired. An investigation is ongoing.
“I’m angered at the fact that residents have to experience this in their community tonight,” Contee said. The residents didn’t deserve this. They did not deserve to have people shot in the communities where they live.”
“The investments have been made to stem the tide of violence in our communities,” Contee said. “Yet it seems that we have people in our communities who have just lost their sense of humanity.”
The site of the shooting is in the Kingman Park neighborhood near the northeastern edge of Capitol Hill. A neighbor, one of several at the scene as ambulances lined the street, said she heard at least 15 shots.
Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Laura Gentile spent the evening talking with residents who live near the shooting.
“This is horrible,” Gentile said. “This is the worst that we’ve ever seen. People feel very unsafe.”
Tell asked that anyone with information call 202-727-9099.
Monday’s violent night included three other shootings, none of which were fatal. A woman was shot on Gainesville Street SE; a man was shot on Newton Place NW; and another man was shot on Oglethorpe Street NE, all within the space of a few hours, officials said.
IN a unique series for the lead-up to the 2022 AFL Women’s Season 7, Rookie Me Central will look at 10 players to watch this year who have played under 10 games. While it would be easy to pick those who finished high in last year’s Rising Star, or top picks this year, we have opted to look at players who have been around for at least two seasons – or in previous years – but have only managed to play nine games or less. Next up in the series is Gold Coast recruit Courtney Jones.
Taking three seasons to finally her chance after being picked up in the 2019 AFLW Draft, Courtney Jones burst onto the scene in 2022, playing nine games and slotting eight goals to win Carlton’s leading goalkicker award. As surprising as her out-of-the-blue season of her being have been, it was just as much of a shock when the 168cm forward announced she would be heading north to go to the Gold Coast.
Over the first two AFL Women’s seasons, Jones could not manage to crack in for a game, largely due to the lack of matches at state league level. The 2020 VFL Women’s season was wiped out by COVID-19 after Jones had impressed for the Southern Saints prior to being drafted in 2019. She finally got her chance in 2021, playing 10 games and slotting five goals from 13.3 disposals and 4.2 marks, playing in that high forward role.
In 2022, Jones finally got her chance in 2022, playing nine of a possible 10 games, averaging 78.4 per cent game time. Playing inside 50, Jones became a damaging sharp shooter, kicking eight goals at almost a goal per game, whilst picking up 2.4 marks and 2.2 tackles. Playing deeper forward than she had at VFLW level, Jones averaged just under a mark per game inside 50, and laid a tackle per game, but read the ball well from the kick-out also winning seven intercept possessions. Still young, Jones has plenty to offer at her new club.
Though the Navy Blues would have dearly loved to have kept the forward, Jones is a perfect fit to a growing Gold Coast team, with the 22-year-old ready to shine. Traded for a bargain basement price of Pick 49 over the off-season, Jones is a player who can far outweigh her value, particularly if she can maintain her goal a game average. She can also play further afield though and be that higher half-forward again or even through the midfield, using her slick skills to distribute the ball to leading forward inside 50.
In Season 7, Jones is one of many wearing new colours, but after a breakout season, Suns fans will be hoping she can go to another level again. No doubt plenty will watch on in fascination to see what kind of role she plays for the South East Queensland side.
