Erin Phillips to present AFLW grand final best-on-ground medal amid calls for it to be named in her honour

Newly retired AFLW nice Erin Phillips will current the best-on-ground medal on the grand ultimate amid speak the award ought to be named in her honour.

The 38-year-old hung up her boots final week after an excellent taking part in profession at Adelaide and Port Adelaide.

She ranks with fellow stars together with retired Melbourne premiership captain Daisy Pearce and North Melbourne’s Emma Kearney as the best gamers within the competitors’s quick historical past.

The ladies’s equivalents of the Brownlow and Norm Smith medals are unnamed and Phillips can be a worthy candidate for both recognition.

She gained the league best-and-fairest award in 2017 and 2019, the identical years she was voted finest afield in Adelaide’s grand ultimate wins.

“We’re nonetheless rising the legacy and Erin’s been retired all of about 36 hours,” AFLW boss Nicole Livingstone stated.

“After all, we have had different wonderful basis gamers as properly — Daisy Pearce retired 12 months in the past, she’s been an epic pressure in ladies’s soccer as properly.

“We maintain our pen dry for that for the time being. We’ll take our time.”

After a global basketball profession with the Opals and within the WNBA, Phillips was a marquee participant when the AFLW began in 2017.

With Adelaide till 2022, she co-captained the aspect to 2 premierships and performed in a 3rd, in her ultimate season with the Crows.

Phillips was named All Australian 3 times and gained Adelaide’s best-and-fairest award twice.

She moved throughout city to Port Adelaide after they joined the league final season and captained the Energy till her retirement.

Phillips performed 65 video games — 46 for the Crows and 19 for Port — and can current the best-on-ground medal on the December 3 grand ultimate.

AAP