Women's Footy AFLW Season 2024

[Minz]

perhaps not at the lower leagues. but certainly for the aflw it would be useful. the mens side of the game would have the most IP. have more staff etc. so the transfer of knowledge across would still be highly useful.

I know this contradicts my earlier statement about having former women players in the coaching ranks being beneficial. but perhaps both are true. greater transfer of knowledge + the knwoledge of what would work well in aflw.

I just think it’s a dead issue. The majority of coaches and support people in the women’s game are men; the most experienced women started playing at adult level near 30 years ago. For example, I’m a woman and played my first adult-level game 26 years ago.

Women who have been continuously involved in the game (not me!) will have as much experience as most male coaches, and as someone who played women’s contact sports for more than a decade, there was never any shortage of men getting involved. And not unqualified men either; I had one coach who had been drafted by Essendon, and another who’d coached David Mundy as a junior.

Which is to say, I strongly doubt that any improvement in the players this year is due to generic male involvement, although it could be through a better coach or coaches, of either sex!

 

[DQ 4EVER]

I ostensibly agree.

However in mom’s case, there wouldn’t be too many women tall enough or strong enough for her to train against and get better.

Wow!
Mim is your mum?!
Didn't know she had a kid


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[arsesmart]

Hopefully we're fully alert and on guard for a post-hub hangover. Adjusting training schedules and trying different approaches for refreshing mentally on to if the list.

 

[arsesmart]

I just think it’s a dead issue. The majority of coaches and support people in the women’s game are men; the most experienced women started playing at adult level near 30 years ago. For example, I’m a woman and played my first adult-level game 26 years ago.

Women who have been continuously involved in the game (not me!) will have as much experience as most male coaches, and as someone who played women’s contact sports for more than a decade, there was never any shortage of men getting involved. And not unqualified men either; I had one coach who had been drafted by Essendon, and another who’d coached David Mundy as a junior.

Which is to say, I strongly doubt that any improvement in the players this year is due to generic male involvement, although it could be through a better coach or coaches, of either sex!

Yep gender is not the relevant element to improvement, rather experience is (and understanding on how to best deploy that experience most effectively to that particular environment and players).

 

[arsesmart]

I ostensibly agree.

However in mom’s case, there wouldn’t be too many women tall enough or strong enough for her to train against and get better.

Did that size thing include Aaron Sandilands when he was coming through?

 

[DragoDelph]

Did that size thing include Aaron Sandilands when he was coming through?

Spider Burton?

 

[arsesmart]

Spider Burton?

Stick vs branch.

Spider needed to be mindful in strong breezes too.

 

[apuchar]

 

[Dale147]

 

[stax on the mull]

This oval that WC vs Port are playing on looks immaculate.

I assume we have a Derby fixtured before the end of the season.

 

[ImperialPurple]

This oval that WC vs Port are playing on looks immaculate.

I assume we have a Derby fixtured before the end of the season.

 

[ignoramus]

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Annoyingly, I can't go to this one as I've a got niece's 18th to go to. It's doubly and triply annoying, in that entry to away games are included in the season membership, and Leederville oval is a heap easier for me to get to than Freo.

 

[ImperialPurple]

Annoyingly, I can't go to this one as I've a got niece's 18th to go to. It's doubly and triply annoying, in that entry to away games are included in the season membership, and Leederville oval is a heap easier for me to get to than Freo.

Eighteenth shmayteenth… priorities!! Tell your niece you’ll be there at her 21st

 

[Dale147]

 

[Vimal Anand]

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[apuchar]

She has done a good job. Who cares about that rubbish

 

[eastfreo75]

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For 10,000 time they kick into the breeze in the first quarter.

 

[freo_leo29]

For 10,000 time they kick into the breeze in the first quarter.

The thing is it shouldn't always happen but this year we have genuinely seemed to do that for every 1st quarter


A couple games don't count though, GMHBA recently was no wind but we still got flogged in that first

 

[Sumwun]

For 10,000 time they kick into the breeze in the first quarter.

Because they lost the toss (I presume)

 

[eastfreo75]

Because they lost the toss (I presume)

Heard of the Fremantle Doctor?

It gets stronger later in the game.

 

[eastfreo75]

The thing is it shouldn't always happen but this year we have genuinely seemed to do that for every 1st quarter


A couple games don't count though, GMHBA recently was no wind but we still got flogged in that first

One game and did you go to the game.

I've never been at game except Docklands and MCG where the wind hasn't been a factor.

 

[freo_leo29]

One game and did you go to the game.

I've never been at game except Docklands and MCG where the wind hasn't been a factor.

It was at GMHBA, stands tend to stop the wind more than these other suburban ovals


The other game I don't think it was a factor was the Crows game as they basically put on 10 points each quarter (and were just completely outclassing us), I've kinda wiped that game from my memory now and don't want to revisit it lol

 

[eastfreo75]

It was at GMHBA, stands tend to stop the wind more than these other suburban ovals


The other game I don't think it was a factor was the Crows game as they basically put on 10 points each quarter (and were just completely outclassing us), I've kinda wiped that game from my memory now and don't want to revisit it lol

Kardinia Park was like the old Subiaco Oval. Wind is a factor but not inside 50.

 

[freo_leo29]

Kardinia Park was like the old Subiaco Oval. Wind is a factor but not inside 50.

They've put in a new stand

 

[eastfreo75]

They've put in a new stand

Ok so it's more like the MCG.