{"id":5973,"date":"2026-05-06T14:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/5973\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:40:21","slug":"blues-boss-leaves-the-club-just-days-before-start-of-pre-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/5973\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues boss leaves the club just days before start of pre-season"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Exclusive\n <\/p>\n

\n Carlton’s Head of AFLW, Ash Naulty, has left the club\n <\/p>\n

Ash Naulty during his time at Carlton. Picture: Carlton College of Sport<\/p>\n

CARLTON’S head of AFLW Ash Naulty has left the club, just days before players are due to return for pre-season training.<\/p>\n

AFL.com.au understands Naulty departed the Blues this week, following three seasons where he acted as the club’s GM of women’s football and list manager.<\/p>\n

AFLW players across the competition are set to return for pre-season training in just five days on May 11.<\/p>\n

The decision comes just months after Carlton returned to the AFLW finals and following a Trade Period where the Blues were among the competition’s busiest sides.<\/p>\n

The Blues brought in Lauren Bella, Claudia Whitfort and Brooke Boileau from rival teams, while they traded out Keeley Skepper, Maddi Torpey and Mia Austin.<\/p>\n

But it was the club’s decision to not offer much-loved former captain Kerryn Peterson a new contract<\/a> that raised eyebrows both internally and externally, after she had given birth to son Max earlier in the year.<\/p>\n

Naulty joined Carlton on an interim basis in February 2023 in the wake of a full-scale review into the club’s women’s football program, but soon became its full-time women’s football boss.<\/p>\n

He had previously held posts at Ikon Park as Carlton College of Sport’s football development and pathways coordinator, as well as the club’s player welfare and VFL coordinator.<\/p>\n

The Blues made it through to a preliminary final last year, ending a five-year drought without finals football, having finished the home and away season with an 8-4 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive Carlton’s Head of AFLW, Ash Naulty, has left the club Ash Naulty during his time at Carlton.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[395,603],"class_list":{"0":"post-5973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-adelaide","8":"tag-adelaide","9":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}