Women's Footy AFLW season 2023 - Season 8

[greatgatsby]

Completely OT, but does anyone else hate the pink on our jumpers? It’s bugged me since day 1, but it really yanks my chain these days. We’re the ONLY club to have different colours for our men’s and women’s teams! Pink isn’t a Freo colour. I say we dump it and have the whole club wearing the same colours!

Maybe we have a sponsorship from Mattel, they're going gangbusters these days.

 

[King Tenz]

Completely OT, but does anyone else hate the pink on our jumpers? It’s bugged me since day 1, but it really yanks my chain these days. We’re the ONLY club to have different colours for our men’s and women’s teams! Pink isn’t a Freo colour. I say we dump it and have the whole club wearing the same colours!

You're not the only one. I've always hated it too. It's just unnecessary. If you're going to add another colour at least use red or green as they use to be club colours.

It's trash and would've thought it would be gone by now.

 

[Taylor]

The pink on the jumper is obvious to everyone as a merchandise move, like a chrome stormtrooper or five different colour power rangers - one more thing to buy to have the whole set.

 

[ImperialPurple]

The pink on the jumper is obvious to everyone as a merchandise move, like a chrome stormtrooper or five different colour power rangers - one more thing to buy to have the whole set.

Disagree. I think it was purely because it’s a ‘girl’s colour’. Start and end of story.

 

[Taylor]

Disagree. I think it was purely because it’s a ‘girl’s colour’. Start and end of story.

...which they put on a unique jumper differentiating it from the men's team because?

They wanted to sell more jumpers. That's my cynical view of it.

 

[King Tenz]

The pink on the jumper is obvious to everyone as a merchandise move, like a chrome stormtrooper or five different colour power rangers - one more thing to buy to have the whole set.

I understand. It's why Carlton had that light blue jumper and Collingwood had this weird looking jumping early on.

They've both since changed to what the men wear and we should do the same.

 

[ImperialPurple]

...which they put on a unique jumper differentiating it from the men's team because?

They wanted to sell more jumpers. That's my cynical view of it.

That may have been a secondary consideration, but imo they went off down ‘girly’ road by adding a ‘traditional girly’ colour. These players deserve to be treated with more respect by putting them in the same jumper as the men. The FFC jumper.

 

[Teen Wolf]

I understand. It's why Carlton had that light blue jumper and Collingwood had this weird looking jumping early on.

They've both since changed to what the men wear and we should do the same.

Also Melbourne ditched the red-back jumper (for home games) a few seasons ago. GWS unified their men's and women's jumpers last season. Adelaide doing it this season. Every team has pride and indigenous jumpers now though, so the point-of-difference thing has become a bit redundant.

The Bulldogs, Brisbane and GC have kept their differences from the men's team, but they don't stand out as much. New Zealand women's T20 cricket team wore pink for a long time, finally got rid of that about a year ago.

 

[ImperialPurple]

Also Melbourne ditched the red-back jumper (for home games) a few seasons ago. GWS unified their men's and women's jumpers last season. Adelaide doing it this season. Every team has pride and indigenous jumpers now though, so the point-of-difference thing has become a bit redundant.

The Bulldogs, Brisbane and GC have kept their differences from the men's team, but they don't stand out as much. New Zealand women's T20 cricket team wore pink for a long time, finally got rid of that about a year ago.

All good examples. But they’ve all kept the same colours, despite subtle differences in the jumper design. Like the Port V to me looks silly, but at least the colours and general design are the same across the club.

And good on the Kiwi cricket association for dumping the pink. As a passionate supporter of women’s cricket, I love that move!

 

[ignoramus]

That may have been a secondary consideration, but imo they went off down ‘girly’ road by adding a ‘traditional girly’ colour. These players deserve to be treated with more respect by putting them in the same jumper as the men. The FFC jumper.

Vice versa, imo. Primary consideration would've been a different colour to up merch sales, with "I know, let's make it pink! Pink is a girl's colour!" being the second thought. (TBF, it's probably just as likely to be a reference to the Cancer Council's pink ribbon.)

“We’ve got an education room at the club that’s been absolutely hammered by the girls, looking not only at vision but the written game plan and theory. The assistant coaches and Lisa have also been great in our education sessions at the club.

If I had a shed load of money, I'd pay a shed load of many to get access to that room. Would love to see the kind of detail that goes into the game plan and theory, and how they approach education sessions.

 

[greatgatsby]

Don't want to get caught on attribution - that will be "Hayley Miller said, we've got an education room ...".

 

[ignoramus]

Don't want to get caught on attribution - that will be "Hayley Miller said, we've got an education room ...".

yep

 

[Tonga Bob]

In some positive news:



[she needs a buddy btw]

 

[footyknut]

So if Cregg is playing and is a wing, does that mean we presume Epps isn’t playing.

 

[arsesmart]

All good examples. But they’ve all kept the same colours, despite subtle differences in the jumper design. Like the Port V to me looks silly, but at least the colours and general design are the same across the club.

And good on the Kiwi cricket association for dumping the pink. As a passionate supporter of women’s cricket, I love that move!

There's nothing behind pink being a female colour other than a marketing decision in early 20th Century USA.

If you wanted an extra added signifier of differentiation (why?) or sell more merch the shades of purple would give you plenty of scope for that. Even just coming up with a more unique numbering system for the players, so you could personalise your jumper to a specific player.

I guess the shallow "tradition" argument might be applied with pink being there for the start, but they could change it and no one would notice within a year max I reckon.

 

[ImperialPurple]

There's nothing behind pink being a female colour other than a marketing decision in early 20th Century USA.

If you wanted an extra added signifier of differentiation (why?) or sell more merch the shades of purple would give you plenty of scope for that. Even just coming up with a more unique numbering system for the players, so you could personalise your jumper to a specific player.

I guess the shallow "tradition" argument might be applied with pink being there for the start, but they could change it and no one would notice within a year max I reckon.

Agree - that’s why it annoys the crap out of me. It’s socially constructed bullshyte that’s been perpetuated by commercial marketing only for the last 100 years or so. There’s no long term historical association of pink being a signifier for girls, but the club chose it for reasons of its association with a ‘girl’s colour’. I hate the connotations that go with it, and I agree - change it and within a season or two no one will notice too much, nor likely care.

 

[arsesmart]

So if Cregg is playing and is a wing, does that mean we presume Epps isn’t playing.

Don't know if they might necessarily be linked. Antonio playing or not, Cregg could bring plenty of drive through the midfield.

 

[arsesmart]

Agree - that’s why it annoys the crap out of me. It’s socially constructed bullshyte that’s been perpetuated by commercial marketing only for the last 100 years or so. There’s no long term historical association of pink being a signifier for girls, but the club chose it for reasons of its association with a ‘girl’s colour’. I hate the connotations that go with it, and I agree - change it and within a season or two no one will notice too much, nor likely care.

Yeah, given there's no real necessity for it and the roots of the decision-making on it, the pink stripe has "anachronism" written all over it.

 

[freo_leo29]

Completely OT, but does anyone else hate the pink on our jumpers? It’s bugged me since day 1, but it really yanks my chain these days. We’re the ONLY club to have different colours for our men’s and women’s teams! Pink isn’t a Freo colour. I say we dump it and have the whole club wearing the same colours!

I love it, it immediately identifies it as the womens jumper and looks good

Pink and purple always look good together too

 

[freo_leo29]

squads are out, Franky named extended bench for wce


our extended bench is interesting

 

[apuchar]

Stannett lined up in the backline

 

[King Tenz]

Stannett lined up in the backline

Could be a smokescreen.

 

[MadMundy]

I haven't paid much attention to the women in their pre-season, are we looking much better than the last couple of years?

 

[freo_leo29]

I haven't paid much attention to the women in their pre-season, are we looking much better than the last couple of years?

It does seem like it, we seemed competitive while missing some of our better players

scored well against WCE and matched it with pies

 

[MadMundy]

It does seem like it, we seemed competitive while missing some of our better players

scored well against WCE and matched it with pies

You'd hope that with how West Coast have been for the last few years that we should easily dispatch of them.