Ex-Adelaide and Fremantle AFLW player Renee Forth special water runner at Greenough Oval

All eyes were on the Northampton-Towns game last weekend as Eagle Josh Kennedy comes to town to watch former junior clubmate and fellow AFL premiership winner Harry Taylor play for the Rams at home.

But fans of the game might have been served to also keep an eye out at Greenough Oval, where another AFL flag winner was planning to attend — Buller River local and ex-Adelaide Crow Renee Forth is planning to run water at the women’s game.

Forth said it was a coincidence she would be in town at the same time as the other AFL players and she was just coming to see family and experience the game — but might give former schoolmate Kennedy a call for a catch up.

“I’m excited to see the footy,” she said. “I saw it a few years ago and I’d like to see where it is now.

“I haven’t been home in over two years.

“It’ll good fun to get down there.

“It’s going to be a good weekend of footy in Geraldton.”

At 34, she said she still had plenty left in the tank and was talking with several AFLW teams after parting ways with the Crows.

She said she would also consider a move back to the Mid West at some point and would likely end up coaching.

“I can still keep playing,” Forth said.

“I’ve won a premiership, so I’m pretty happy with what I achieved.”

A premiership player with Adelaide in 2019, she also has two WAFLW flags and captained Fremantle in the first women’s western derby.

Forth was a marquee signing for Greater Western Sydney and overcame an anterior cruciate ligament injury that ruled her out for the first AFLW season, eventually shifting to the Crows.

Chapman Valley played Rovers at Greenough Oval.