Panthera Tigris said:I wonder how long it will be before such acknowledgement is considered un-PC and it all becomes standardised.
Not long is my bet!
Panthera Tigris said:I wonder how long it will be before such acknowledgement is considered un-PC and it all becomes standardised.
If Clementine Ford is in such favour of it, she should be made to play. Although she'd probaably have to give up the pack of darts a day first. Odds on she hated football when she was at uni.Panthera Tigris said:Yes, certainly get where you're coming from 12.
Sports like tennis, athletics, swimming, basketball, hockey etc that have (like their male counterparts) years of legacy and tradition, hence decades and decades worth of elite talent pool are genuinely elite sports. Australian rules football for women, in comparison is in it's infancy, and will take many decades to reach that same status. The fact that talented women from a range of other sports, but haven't kicked a footy in their life, can walk onto a team and get a regular senior game at it's 'top level', is indicative of this phenomenon. Rugby sevens at the Olympics is a similar example.
And like you, I don't mean this with any malice. I've coached heaps of girls in athletics with great success, and give their performances equal weight to any of the boys I've coached - in fact, perhaps have had slightly better coach/athlete relationships (in broadly general terms), with the girls than the boys I've coached. My own young daughter has got into tennis and loves it, and I'm really encouraging of it. I play tennis in the driveway of a weekend with her as much as I would play sport with any sons - really love this time together.
But for some bizarre reason, women's AFL has been latched onto and politicised so much by new wave feminists. Some of the voices in the media that highly politicise it - I'm looking at the likes of Clementine Ford and Mia Freedman - who are suddenly massive advocates of female sport. Where were they all these years before the AFLW existed? Were they at the tennis talking up the sublime power and skills of Steffi Graff, Monica Seles, the Williams sisters, Margaret Court etc over the years? Have they been regular attendees of the WNBL, or the national netball league, the W-League screaming from the the rooftops of tabloid and social media how 'brave', 'courageous' and 'empowering' these women are? Or, like most of us, just simply going along to be entertained by the elite skills and/or athleticism on show? No they weren't.
I May take some interest in 2020 when that happens but I am more interested in Dan Rioli’s foot right nowjb03 said:Will be great when the Tigers have a team.
crackertiger said:Moanna was hopeless
Was the difference in the game.
kendo said:Horrible to watch
She probably should be renamed Mo Hype.GEDS1 said:She is no good. The others have left her for dead she cannot get near it and has no real traits slow, no spring and cannot attract the ball.
CarnTheTiges said:She probably should be renamed Mo Hype.
crackertiger said:Moanna was hopeless
Was the difference in the game.
Can't help thinking te AFL has gone about their push into the women's game, arse about. Putting the cart before the horse so to speak.Tigers of Old said:I thought the standard of the game was hopeless.
As a sport AFLW is quite honestly not yet ready for Prime time TV viewing.