AFLW season kicks off with a focus on attack, and the most goals for an opening round in league history

Round one of the AFLW season is in the books, and the opening seven games provided a welcome return to football after an absence of nearly 11 months.

With no expansion teams added for 2021, the focus was on the existing 14 teams, and how much improvement could be seen nearly a full year after the previous season was shut down because of COVID.

On early evidence, one of the clear differences from last year is on the scoreboard, following a goal-fest in round one.

Goals, goals, goals

Over the seven games, the teams managed a record opening round total of 77 goals 75 behinds — this compares with a total of 48.62 for the opening set of matches in 2020.

It wasn’t just the teams, either. On an individual level players showed a growing appetite…