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Came across this in my travels for a project I'm working on currently. We often see lopsided scores in women's competitions, but this is truly demoralising. I actually thought it was an error at first, but given all the opposition scores differ wildly each week, I am led to believe it's legitimate.

As a precursor – not that I think that this board would do any of the sort – but please don't direct any criticism towards this team, the league, or women's football in general. I am merely pointing this out as a statistical curio.

It is almost certainly the worst performing season in history by a senior Australian rules football club. In the 2023 AFL Broken Hill Women's competition, West Broken Hill finished the season with a record of 0–13 from 14 games, with 1 forfeit. Their total 'points for' for the season was... 1. Their 'points against' was 1277. This yielded a percentage of 0.08%, again almost certainly another record.

Their results per round is below. The Round 12 result is a forfeit, with the default score (0–60) given.

RNDDATETIMEVENUEOPPOSITION
225/04/23 (Tue)12:000.0-0Central Senior Women14.14-98View
305/05/23 (Fri)19:200.0-0South Senior Women10.12-72View
413/05/23 (Sat)11:250.0-0North Senior Women14.17-101View
520/05/23 (Sat)11:250.1-1Central Senior Women9.17-71View
627/05/23 (Sat)15:500.0-0South Senior Women13.14-92View
703/06/23 (Sat)11:250.0-0South Senior Women17.11-113View
817/06/23 (Sat)11:250.0-0North Senior Women13.15-93View
924/06/23 (Sat)11:250.0-0Central Senior Women11.11-77View
1015/07/23 (Sat)11:250.0-0Central Senior Women12.10-82View
1122/07/23 (Sat)11:250.0-0South Senior Women22.5-137View
1229/07/23 (Sat)11:250North Senior Women60View
1305/08/23 (Sat)11:250.0-0Central Senior Women9.13-67View
1412/08/23 (Sat)11:250.0-0South Senior Women18.16-124View
1520/08/23 (Sun)10:250.0-0North Senior Women12.18-90View
I really can't see this being beaten by any senior team in the future.
I wonder who scored the point.
 
Can anyone tell me when the Weekly Times started putting the country ladders each week into its newspaper. I know they have had them for a while (at least back to the 1990s when I worked in a newsagency), but did they include them in the 1970s or 1980s?

Hopefully some learned footy ladder buff can help me with my query.

Connor7395 Todman
 
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Can anyone tell me when the Weekly Times started putting the country ladders each week into its newspaper. I know they have had them for a while (at least back to the 1990s when I worked in a newsagency), but did they include them in the 1970s or 1980s?

Hopefully some learned footy ladder buff can help me with my query.

Connor7395 Todman
late 1990s
 

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Have just recently finished researching and uploading the entire history of the Mid North Women's Football Competition, based in Crystal Brook, South Australia.

Thank goodness for the league's Facebook page – it was the keeper of essentially 90% of the historical scores, uploaded through weekly posts over the years (the administrators were/are fairly lax with PlayHQ, SportingPulse etc.)

Couple that with the reliance on referring to teams by their nicknames or abbreviations (it took me a decent while to work out who "Sollys" [Solomontown] were in the earlier years, especially as there is no men's comp equivalent), and the strange omission of posting scores from most Grand Final days – just images of the winners – and this was quite the task.

But I managed to fill the gaps through club FB pages, a rare newspaper report or two, and even watching back a live stream of the 2023 GF.

It's nice to have these pioneering women's comps, especially the more rural and remote ones, archived for all to see.

 
I have a couple of missing match scores from the 1980s which I'd love to get to fill in some gaps for some seasons.
I cannot find them in the Sun or the Age and, living in Perth, I don't have easy access to the local papers at the State Library to dig deeper.

Can anyone help me with:

MORNINGTON PENINSULA NEPEAN DIV 1
1987 1SF (? d ?)
1987 PF (Pines d ?)

MORNINGTON PENINSULA NEPEAN DIV 2
1988 1SF (Sorrento d Carrum)

SOUTHERN MALLEE
1980 1SF (Hopetoun d ?)
1988 PF (Woomelang-Lascelles d Beulah)
 
I have a couple of missing match scores from the 1980s which I'd love to get to fill in some gaps for some seasons.
I cannot find them in the Sun or the Age and, living in Perth, I don't have easy access to the local papers at the State Library to dig deeper.

Can anyone help me with:

MORNINGTON PENINSULA NEPEAN DIV 1
1987 1SF (? d ?)
1987 PF (Pines 27.17-179 d Mt Eliza 14.15.99)

MORNINGTON PENINSULA NEPEAN DIV 2
1988 1SF (Sorrento d Carrum)

SOUTHERN MALLEE
1980 1SF (Hopetoun 19.16-130 d Berri-Culgoa 12.15-87) * I dont have 1980 Prelim scores
1988 PF (Woomelang-Lascelles 14.16-100 d Beulah 11.17-83)
 

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