I don't have a problem with the scoring rate, as it is still exciting.. two games decided by a point, can't ask for more suspense than that!

But as my son said, it's like watching Under 12's.

However, I can see a future in it.. footy takes time to develop, and anything that promotes our unique game over other football varieties is a good thing.

Lower speed of players and less powerful kicking make transition look ponderous.

Smaller ground...maybe fewer players?

I generally agree with you but sometimes you post absolute garbage.

The fact that oneonesit agrees with you confirms that

nobody is forcing them. why can't they participate in whatever sports they choose, or would you like to ban that ?

If most funding goes towards women being paid well to play it, then the rise of girls playing will increase.

What we will see is Olympic standard sprinters start playing the sport, so many of the women will actually run faster than the mens version.

Along with that, will come the skills, eventually.

But certainly very fast sprinting will be the primary driver of the youth.

I also didnt realise, but men AFL, dont run as fast and far for a game, as I first thought.

Craig Mottram once ran against, I think Richmond players, and he absolutely annihilated their best runners.

The womens version of the game, will indeed improve immensely. Its just evolution, and requires time and patience.

As too the top middle distant female runners, even age under 18, can run faster, for longer, than the mens AFL.

That is a statistical fact.

So what we will see, is a rise and evolution of incredible female athletes, choose AFLW, as their primary sport career.

Its not at all far fetched, to see the possibility of women running even better than men in AFL.

Why are you surprised    football players are all round athletes, strength, flexibility, power, endurance,, sprints. They do not train solely for running and are generally 20 % heavier than the ideal weight for running.

It does not take an elite runner like Mottram, even I at my peak was faster than 99% of AFL players at distances over 2 km

But they are far superior all round athletes

so true, Redemption has no idea 

She can beat every single AFL mens player in running.

Many girls aged under 18, are better runners, than the top runners in mens AFL.

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Its very very possible, that women can actually play better, faster, and even stronger, than the men.

Dont under-estimate that. its very possible.

You get 36 females on a field, that can run near the standard of Lacaze and Pearson, you have one heck of sport.

Its going to happen.

I wont be at all shocked, if the standard of AFLW, actually exceeds the standard of men.

Heck, its happened in horse racing. The mares are smashing up the men. Winx, Enabled, Almond Eye, etc etc.

she does not have the endurance to play AFL

yes and they are so light for running that they lack the strength, power needed to play the game and would no way be able to withstand the physical contact, would be smashed to pieces in the first 15 minutes.  If they put on weight they lose some of that overrated speed that you rabbit on a bout

You really have no idea what is required to play football.

In your world the African runners who weigh  52 kg would be great players 

They will be so good that women will demand to play against men, not just in the AFL but in all professional sports. On that blessed day we will have true gender equality, hallelujah sister.

Very good times but that solely does not qualify them to play AFL, they have many other elite physical attributes, unlike what some believe

no , just less than 200 metres

Oneone: & you would be the best to know - seeing as you would have none of them. Post another photo of yourself why don't you. I need a good laugh.

Please modify your behaviour to more acceptable levels

Reminiscent of the time when women were not allowed to race beyond 200 metres because it would make them old before their time and prevent them from having babies, 32 years to the Rome Olympics 

Now the women's world record time for the marathon are faster than men's winning times till the 1960 Olympic Games 

great post Whale

The reason it can be very possible for women to play a higher standard AFLW, than the men, is because there are too many teams for the men.

The women shouldnt be making their comp bigger.

If its condensed, they can have elite athletes.

The skills will come. You dont have to be born into the sport. collingwood recruited that tall american guy.

I stand by my statement. Women can become better than the men, at Australian Rules.

If they recruit globally, elite athletes, with strength, and the skills of tennis players, etc, anything is possible.

Basically, the women can have the skill of soccer players, netball players, middle distance runners, combined, to make AFLW, a far cry from what it is today.

Its going to take time, but it will certainly evolve to brilliant viewing.

The AFLW, may also very well be the reason that international interest in the sport can grow. 

International women entering it to play.

So when we see a slower, often less skilled version you can't help but compare the quality.

I'm all for everyone playing any sport they like. The more the better.

And women's sport per se is excellent when comparing apples to apples but we can't unsee the men's versions of the game.

Irking is the media's and parent sports hyping the quality of the game....the word 'thriller' has already copped as thrashing in the AFLW and its only Round 1.

Have it on Tv..watch it if you want to..I won't...but don't load up newscasts and sports talk back shows with feminist propaganda telling me that it's just as good as the bloke's version.

PS: None of the above applies to Women's Golf.

I agree, just ignore the hype, it is a far inferior game

just looking at a recent COMPARATIVE STUDY ON STRENGTH BETWEEN AMERICAN COLLEGE MALE AND FEMALE STUDENTS IN ASIAN AND CAUCASIAN POPULATIONS..I'll stick to the caucasian results: 

Biceps....females 37% of male strength

Triceps....            53%

Pectorals.....         41%

Rhomboids...        50%

Upper.......            49%

Lower.......            53%

Hamstrings.....       59%

Quadriceps.....       60%

Calf......                 57%

Abdominal.....         58%

As far as speed is concerned......The Israeli physicist Ira Hammerman spoke at the 2010 Wingate Congress of Exercise & Sports Sciences, and he found that this little-known ratio held across all sports. Women's speed world records are all about 90 percent of their men's speed world records, in both short, middle and long distances.

So that's it! Well found!

Three sets is plenty...even for the blokes.

I go to the two male Canberra Challenger tournaments every year and they are all 3 set games...seems plenty to get a fair result.

Pretty sure that's the case.

Might evolve to 3 sets up to the semis then 5 setters.

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Good on her.

Absolute DISGRACE.

To put it into perspective, if the same messages were put in writing, on paper, and put into your letterbox at home, would you go to the police??

You bet you would.

I hope she sues the crap out of them all.

The kick resulted in a goal from 40m out.

7 took the photo down because of reprehensible comments from the typical trolls among the other posts who recognized it as a great sporting photograph and kick.  As a result the baby got thrown out with the bathwater, and people have been reposting the now iconic photo and 7 have put it back up.

As a male who is appalled by the 'toxic masculinity' of these morons it is hard to know what to do.

If you confront them for their revolting disrespect for women they bleat free speech and go sooking to the moderator.  Age and stupidity are not excuses.  If they cannot conduct themselves in a civil manner with regard to other people's gender or race then kick them out for good and always.  They don't deserve the privilege of the platform. 

Can't you keep them confined to their little stinkholes like 8Chan and off places like Facebook? This happened on Facebook didn't it?

I meant to add that not only was the photo taken down all the comments, troll and non troll were removed.  And that is what people objected to and why the photo was being reposted. 

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This is where Alex Jones etc, is wrong.

Nothing is stopping these abusive people from writing abusive letters and putting them in letterboxes.

Internet is only one medium.

Good ole letterbox drops are still possible, so free speech is very much still possible.

These abusive people are hiding and should be charged, then sued.

It requires global regulation.

Highly offensive statements require a category in which people over 18 can be charged.

Under 18 should be cautioned and educated.

Do you think people have thin skins and take comments or social media comments to the far extreme in today's age? I do

I'm just getting a little sick of all the double standards. Make a comment to a female and you're shot down. don't open the door and you're the biggest a$$hole in the world. Damned if you do damned if you don't. 

Can't wait to go read the Suzie O'Brien now should be fun

Stop it.

Maybe if she or other female footballers have a problem with the male footy shorts put on some skins or maybe put some pressure on the AFLW to get a more feminine uniform. 

There is no problem with the footballers kit.   

No Sexual assault of woman or anyone for that matter is not ok. 

Domestic violence in not ok either but people have choice both offender and the victim. Had a very bad case of DV across the road had to call the police all the time. She refused to leave. So how can you help that? You got to want to help yourself before others can help you?

Rapey Trolls are not ok either? How can you stop and if you really want to open it up then most sites would be shut down. You can find rapey troll on all sites it's just how you interpret them. People of people here go at each other and say offensive things. (other than a few trolls none of the above have happened to this player or any others)

Every year these female footballs have something to carry on about. How about let's just play football?

First it was we need to be paid the same as the men

Then it was we're taking the AFL to court because our season is shorter and our suspensions are to long and don't need to be like the mens

Then a chick with a d*ck was going to take the AFL to  court because he wasn't allowed to play. 

3 years in and they're still sooking and bitching. JUST PLAY FOOTBALL and stop with all the BS statements. 

Rapey Trolls are not ok either? How can you stop and if you really want to open it up then most sites would be shut down. You can find rapey troll on all sites it's just how you interpret them. People of people here go at each other and say offensive things. (other than a few trolls none of the above have happened to this player or any others)

Regulations, recognised Laws, of which have Categories.

Eg, Highly offensive, clearly abusive material, designed to degrade. Sexually aggressive views.

It would have Levels of what is considered anti-social.  Level 1 to 5 etc. 5 being the worse.  1 being a Caution.   3 being banned.  5 being Arrested.

You don't hear the soccer women making statement every 5 minutes, like the AFLW women. They just go about their business and play soccer. Their going quite well. 

I have hit the nail on the head before but this one was with the big hammer.

Many players cant even kick goals from 30 metres right in front. Different in a game of course, but still,,,,,.

The AFL should have started this project from grass roots and built it up. Instead they took the shortcut and took players from other elite sports codes. Footy is more than just kicking the ball. That's why the chick with the d*ck would have killed someone. He'd played footy before and had footy smarts. The other girls just run around more worried about bumping and crashing into each other rather than going the ball.

The other issue I have with the girls game is they should have taken the game on in their terms rather than  try and play the boys game of defence. Where do you see any other womens sport being played so defensively? 90% of women's sport is played slick and fast. If the women's AFLW had done that and played on smaller grounds for example like Carlton's ground it would have made for a faster game and a scoring frenzy. 

So maybe 70 to 80 years behind.

But evolution is evolution.

If you were in 1930, watching the women of today, you would say its unbelievably good.

Its simply going to take time.

The 'toxic masculinity' label was coined to distract from the real issue, knowing full well that the argument would go round and round in circles before any real action was made. It's as valueless in the discussion as 'affable predator'. It's a deadset trap & I would've thought a scholar would know better.

Sermons from the mount, in front of the sponsor's message, aren't worth a pinch of you know what. We're well past the two-and-three-quarters count from mum. 

Red Hare,   I think you might be over estimating me.  

I didn't understand a lot your post.

I don't know what a woke spa is, even after googling it. Why do they have passwords ?

I don't understand what 'for your own posterity' means.  I don't have children.

I don't understand what the problem is with the term 'toxic masculinity' ....  but it is probably why I keep putting it in quotes.