Meath star Vikki Wall insists that she has not yet penned a deal with an AFLW club.
Wall, along with a number of her All-Ireland winning teammates, has been strongly linked with a move to Australia and earlier this month her manager, Éamonn Murray, declared that she would “definitely go”.
However, while the 2021 Footballer of the Year reiterated her interest in playing her trade down under at some stage, she insisted that no terms have been agreed with any club and that Meath’s title defence is foremost in her mind for now.
She said: “I have nothing confirmed at the moment. I suppose, look, it’s something I have spoken about that I do have interest in. But no, nothing to confirm at the moment anyway.”
Murray also questioned why Irish footballers would wish to play Australian rules, saying that it’s “dreadful stuff to watch”. He added: I can’t understand it. There’s no skill at all.”
But Wall insisted that there was no bad blood between her and her manager following his comments.
“Ah no, not at all. Myself and Éamonn, and I suppose all the management in general, we all get on very well and I think that’s part of the reason for the success of the team.
“No, we remain friends even if he’s saying a few controversial things,” said Wall, who was speaking as an ambassador for the National Dairy Council.
Although Meath look set to have her for the defence of their All-Ireland title this summer, she played down suggestions that her loss to the AFLW could be potentially crippling to the team given that the overlap in the playing seasons here and in Australia going forward make it far more difficult for players to combine both.
“I don’t know, I don’t think it comes down to one or two individuals to be honest. I think if it did, a lot more teams would be successful. I think it comes down to so much more than that.
“Obviously there are flipsides to it and you can look at it and say how important it is to stay and see the progression of Meath ladies and obviously, like I said, people and individuals whether it’s going travelling for a few years and stuff like that, people do do it.
“It’s just a case of I think focusing on the underage structures in Meath and focusing on a bigger picture rather than one or two players.
“Even if I do or don’t go, there’s obviously people will retire and things like that as well. It’s focusing on longevity and not letting it just be a cycle of what happened five or six years ago where there was a huge amount of retirements and it kind of went back to square one really and we had to build again.
“So I think that’s what will be the higher focus, I don’t think it’s about individuals really, no.”
But with the fledgling AFLW expanding to 18 teams for the upcoming season, which starts in August, and more money being pumped into the female game in Australia, it’s an exciting time for the likes of Wall to be lured down under.
“Absolutely, even in Ireland now I think it’s an exciting time to be part of women’s sport. I think there’s such growth in it and even just seeing the lift that it’s had in Meath since winning the All-Ireland.
“And it’s not just Gaelic football, it’s sport in general. I think a few of the clubs were saying that they didn’t have enough managers to take over the younger ages girls teams so for us that’s unbelievable and I think that’s rise in women’s sport in recent seasons has been clear to see,” she added.
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