Roast Inner Feral Fan Unleashed - Warning - Unbridled, passionate, and objectionable opinions within

[Bearded Carpenter]

I’m ****ing confused

 

[Metalcrusher]

And campaigners think the SFA is weird. This shit is next level.

 

[footyfan1978]

I once had a soft spot for Saints too.
Realised error of my ways , years later.

 

[footyfan1978]

I’m ******* confused

Dumb Blondie

 

[footyfan1978]

Cunningham will never come fruition

One ****ing n, one, FFS!!!

 

[slashin_velvet]

Sakc Ratts

 

[footyfan1978]

Save Ratts from hell

 

[PumpyChowdown]

Marchbank is not in our 7 best defenders.

 

[Blue Flame]

Depth thread should be locked.

 

[Robertio]

Dumb Blondie

Also has a heart of glass.

 

[slashin_velvet]

Whilst not 'feral', my opinion is the AFLW is the worst 'elite' labelled female sport in the world.
I love watching the W- League.. the skills are genuinely elite and the girls play with a high level of physicality..
I have coached Women's cricket at a district level and really enjoy watching the skills, of which some are sublime..
I have watched and enjoyed WNBL when my wife played..
My daughter has played state level netball and again, the skills were magnificent.

I have no idea how the AFL added 4 more sides, it has diluted the talent pool dramatically. I would say there would be no more than 15-20 elite players in this competition.

My niece is on Fremantle's list this season and jokes that 'she can't kick for shit'.. Granted, she has only been playing the game 2 seasons having come from another sport.

I agree with the comments that the extra teams may have been added too early which has diluted the quality, but to counter that....matching the men's comp will increase interest/participation and further validate the competitions existence.

The quality will only improve from here... particularly as it is now more socially accepted, in a couple years time, teams will have a solid group of 18-23 year olds.

I'm not sure if the standard will ever reach the men's competition, just because participation rates are unlikely to match men due to the financial differential at top level (which exists in almost all female team sports globally).

 

[KohPhi]

I agree with the comments that the extra teams may have been added too early which has diluted the quality, but to counter that....matching the men's comp will increase interest/participation and further validate the competitions existence.

The quality will only improve from here... particularly as it is now more socially accepted, in a couple years time, teams will have a solid group of 18-23 year olds.

I'm not sure if the standard will ever reach the men's competition, just because participation rates are unlikely to match men due to the financial differential at top level (which exists in almost all female team sports globally).

Oh I've got no problems with expanding the competition..
More interest..
Greater revenue for clubs..
More opportunity for women to earn money.

My beef is more the AFL and most, if not all of the commentators labelling the competition 'elite'. I know one of the commentators who calls some of the games and (I wont say he or she) has been told not to focus on glaring errors, or draw any unnecessary attention to skill errors.

Sure, it's the highest level of competition currently available, but calling it elite is plain wrong when more than half the participants cannot execute the basic game skills adequately on a consistent level.

Having said that, there are elite players in the competition and they are a pleasure to watch.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Red lights, green lights, strawberry wine.

 

[thylacine60]

Oh I've got no problems with expanding the competition..
More interest..
Greater revenue for clubs..
More opportunity for women to earn money.

My beef is more the AFL and most, if not all of the commentators labelling the competition 'elite'. I know one of the commentators who calls some of the games and (I wont say he or she) has been told not to focus on glaring errors, or draw any unnecessary attention to skill errors.

Sure, it's the highest level of competition currently available, but calling it elite is plain wrong when more than half the participants cannot execute the basic game skills adequately on a consistent level.

Having said that, there are elite players in the competition and they are a pleasure to watch.

elite? joke - no-one cares about a contrived sport with no crowds, no skill, no interest - shut it down and put the money into the tac cup or jnr development

 

[Stig O'Hara]

It’s on TV.

You’ll watch.

 

[KohPhi]

Use of the Oxford comma in the thread title relates utterly to the content.

elite? joke - no-one cares about a contrived sport with no crowds, no skill, no interest - shut it down and put the money into the tac cup or jnr development

A tad dramatic, but agree with spending more on development and coaching at the junior and club levels.

This would have been a far more sustainable model in building towards an elite standard of competition than the 'lets just introduce more sides, put it on prime time and keep letting everyone in for free' approach which really, masks the terrible decision to expand when consolidation and subsequent natural progression of skills would have created a far better outcome.

Having seen, and played a small part in the way CA and CV established, consolidated and grew women's cricket over the last 20 years to where it is today, this should have been a blueprint for the AFL to adopt, and not the 'money can do anything' approach they seem to be fixated with.

I'm not one to generally bash the AFL as I believe they get more right than wrong, but they got this (expansion so early) wrong.

 

[thylacine60]

shut the rubbish down...........

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Ssh.

 

[KohPhi]

Ssh.

Great song... Unguarded Moment one of their best. One of my old school mates has just joined The Church this year for their upcoming Aus tour..

 

[footyfan1978]

Ssh.

Wrong ****ing thread...

 

[agro]

It’s on TV.

You’ll watch.

 

[Blue__Balls]

Oh I've got no problems with expanding the competition..
More interest..
Greater revenue for clubs..
More opportunity for women to earn money.

My beef is more the AFL and most, if not all of the commentators labelling the competition 'elite'. I know one of the commentators who calls some of the games and (I wont say he or she) has been told not to focus on glaring errors, or draw any unnecessary attention to skill errors.

Sure, it's the highest level of competition currently available, but calling it elite is plain wrong when more than half the participants cannot execute the basic game skills adequately on a consistent level.

Having said that, there are elite players in the competition and they are a pleasure to watch.

Agree with much of what you've said.

I've been of the view that "it'll take time", from the viewpoint of junior development feeding into the "Elite" competition. Give it a few more years and there will be girls getting drafted who have played footy from 6yo through to 18yo, and they'll be much better players for that experience and development. That being said, the standard of development needs to improve as well, with a quality "TAC-like" pathway for the top whatever-percent of female junior players.

Even then though, as far as the ceiling of these players is concerned, they'll never reach it until the competition becomes a full-fledged one that lasts more than two months, with wages that allow the players to train and play full time.

Long-term viability though? I dunno. How does it work if the end-goal is both men's and women's competitions with 18 sides each, playing right through winter? Where/when do they all play without one competition dramatically overshadowing the other?

 

[happydude]

Fun? People complain constantly.

This is stuff that we would otherwise delete and people don't have to read it, so it can't really hurt anything else.

You say that as if people never complain in any other Facets of life....

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

You say that as if people never complain in any other Facets of life....

Oh people complain all the time in the real world. The worst ones are the ones that complain about all the complainers.

 

[happydude]

Oh people complain all the time in the real world. The worst ones are the ones that complain about all the complainers.

It's why I make it a point to complain about the people complaining about the complainers....