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Just to be clearer - the VFL squad has the overflow senior players in it. Success of that side bodes well for the AFL side.
If the W equivalents are running separate lists then the VFLW success is nice but has no carryover to AFLW besides morale and the club maybe enhancing it's overall intel.
Kinda whack that they don't run VFLW and AFLW concurrently so they can mirror the men's pathway. Maybe there's a good reason.
It's also kinda whack that the AFL, in their infinite wisdom, priced pioneering women's football clubs such as the Melbourne University Mugars out of the VFLW by demanding ridiculously high licence fees. Given that there is very limited carry over value for AFLW teams to have a VFLW team as you say, then the decent and honourable thing would have been for the AFL to keep their greedy bean-counting paws away from the top state level women's football league and encourage AFLW teams to affiliate with heritage teams who have been doing the hard yards long before the AFL paid any attention.