BringBackTorps
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- Jan 5, 2017
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The AFLW in 2017 was in its first year -no one should predict/expect standards to be high.errr....I didnt compare it to the mens.
AFLW is still very young and i watch a lot of womens sport. I think it can be way better. For example, my next line was
If anything, it is a comparison with other womens sport and what is to come in the future. It is comparing the average AFLW player with the best and seeing the massive gap between the 2.
Not once did i mention that AFLW team would lose to an under 14 regional side and then USE that as a way to deman the women and the league. Do you see the difference between the two?
The simple fact of this is that we have heard a lot of from current players playing AFLW say that they couldn't continue to play AR because there was nowhere for them to play. Even now, the footing of AR for women in my state is very very shaky(or in other words, poorly run) to use an example. the RL are going the slow route for example and trying to build from the bottom. But i already said that the AFL was correct with the steps it took regarding the founding of AFLW and women in the game.
EDIT: I will state again that i dont care much for womens/men comparisons when they dont play each other. Please read the above example when i do as an example and not an attack on the AFLW.
You said "I think the average standard was very poor from the LITTLE I watched". An informed opinion...not. Your obvious reference was men's AF.
What was the average standard of W League players when it commenced? And in 2017?
Do you intend to directly answer my question above, in my previous post ie where /when have you castigated commentators from other codes who made derogatory comments about the AFLW, comparing it to men's AF?