AFLW’s switch to winter start hailed as a success by league after two rounds this season

• New time slot runs alongside men's competition finals
• Indigenous rounds to be held over next two weeks

The AFLW's switch to an August start is being hailed a success as league hierarchy push for more Indigenous women to join the competition. The AFL's general manager of women's football, Nicole Livingstone, says the AFLW's change from starting in January to last month was already proving of benefit.

It's a new time slot for us clearly, running alongside with the men's finals," Livingstone told reporters in Adelaide on Monday. We think starting in the [men's] bye round has worked really well for us.