Agreed. You know what though. Plenty of nufty snipers out there ready and waiting to bag out the men’s team as well as soon as they get on a losing streak.
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Game Day AFLW Round 5 - Richmond v Geelong: somewhere beyond civilisation as we know it
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Really???
Firstly - most people will refrain from saying anything for fear of being vilified (hounded!!). Ironically bullied!
I watched it today (not live) and is anyone seriously going to suggest this is anything but FAKE news? (I have so many SMS otherwise)
Yes we won - and it creates about the same level of excitement as when my girls win an U14 netball game.
You talk about skills? really!?!?!????? (the missed shots are such a hilarious indictment!)
TBH an U16 school boys team (from VIC) would towel them up - why do we pretend otherwise???
I get it - its good for marketing and it keeps soccer off the back pages - but lets not pretend anything else.
It's JUNK!
Agree TBR and I've been getting more into it now that Richmond were in it. I think there is a sexist view that we have to compare the men to the women, and we do forget that a lot of the ladies that are playing now, are only just getting into elite environments and the quality will continue to improve. I'd say the skills in say 5 years of the AFLW will be starkly different to now.
Personally I think the AFL completely screwed up the rollout of the womens footy and this is key because at some point it needs to generate more money. As you say 25k views of the song, plenty of likes and this is for a team that has won 1 out of 10 games in their history.
The AFL's viewpoint was to give licences to smaller teams 1st as they "needed to attract more members", however I'd love to see the stats. I would hazard a guess that most AFLW members are already AFL members and therefore they haven't attracted many more, just attracted them to a different variant of the game. Hence wouldn't it have been better to provide the larger teams with a licence 1st, build the membership and funding up and then look to fund the smaller sides. The business model they had was flawed and why I think they've rushed through the number of expansion teams. A strong Richmond womens team would have done wonders for generating interest and I suspect you will see that as we grow the skills of our team and continue to improve.
I would hazard a guess that in 5 years we will have more AFLW members than some teams have AFL members.
Our girls, at most, have played 11 games of top level football.
We don't judge the boys until they've played 50 odd.
We don't judge the boys until they've played 50 odd.
I suspect men's footy would have looked pretty crap back in 1863 (4 years after the game was invented), 1881 (4 years after the VFA was formed) and 1901 (4 years after the VFL was formed.
The women's game is improving out of sight. Yes, off a low base, but that base was reliant on a bunch of women who were stopped from playing footy for key late teenage years, and many came from other sports.
It is getting a lot better and as those who played footy through their growing up years come through it will improve again.
Then, we will start to see a women's version of high level football. It won't be the same as the men's because women will play the game differently, but in a few years I think we will see a very high level game with some variation on the men's game.
It will remain an exciting fast paced game which is what Australian Rules is, but it will just be a bit different.
DS
The women's game is improving out of sight. Yes, off a low base, but that base was reliant on a bunch of women who were stopped from playing footy for key late teenage years, and many came from other sports.
It is getting a lot better and as those who played footy through their growing up years come through it will improve again.
Then, we will start to see a women's version of high level football. It won't be the same as the men's because women will play the game differently, but in a few years I think we will see a very high level game with some variation on the men's game.
It will remain an exciting fast paced game which is what Australian Rules is, but it will just be a bit different.
DS
Haven't watched any of the women's games. Occasionally see a minute or two of games when I'm having a channel surf, just not interested.
Having said that, I'm sure all involved would have been ecstatic over the women getting their break through win this week, and deserving of all congratulations.
It's not that long ago when Dimma was coaching a mob that was worse than Fitzroy n couldn't win a game to save themselves. Must be a massive sense of relief and achievement at any sporting level when that first win comes along to break a long string of losses.
Having said that, I'm sure all involved would have been ecstatic over the women getting their break through win this week, and deserving of all congratulations.
It's not that long ago when Dimma was coaching a mob that was worse than Fitzroy n couldn't win a game to save themselves. Must be a massive sense of relief and achievement at any sporting level when that first win comes along to break a long string of losses.
Mate, I used to be the same.
But for whatever reason this year they have got me hooked. They are very entertaining to watch and doing the club proud.
I’m the same. The product as a whole has taken it up a notch. It’s a bit like the WBBL. That took a few years to really hit some heights. Now I find it more entertaining than the BL. Certainly less contrived.
A win is a win if you're a true tiger, It was a fantastic Breakthru win from a really improving side. Go Tigers!
I agree. And it will continue to improve over time.
In the meantime, the competition had to start somewhere. I'm the first to be crititcal of the AFL but I don't see a big problem here.
