Just saw this on AFL.com
Women football for a curtain raiser to the main game.
Should be good so turn up early
Just saw this on AFL.com
Women football for a curtain raiser to the main game.
Should be good so turn up early
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Meet your women's team - sydneyswans.com.au
Here's the line up for Saturday...for those of you who haven't seen a womens game yet it's worth the effort so get along early and check it out. You won't be disappointed.
http://www.girlsplayfooty.com/2016/0...e-against.html
Another preview in case anyone's interested.....
Thanks aardvark, I'm interested. I'm quite envious actually, I would have loved the opportunity to play footy when I was a teenager.
Can you tell me if there any rule modifications for the women? For example, how long are the quarters?
Really interesting reading the backgrounds of the women who will line up for the Swans - top athletes from running, basketball, netball, cricket, baseball, golf(!), not to mention a woman who plays for the New York Magpies. Seems to indicate that once girls have a pathway open to them for AFL through the academy system, we are likely to see promising female athletes take up footy at a young age.
AFL season 2016: Sydney, Amy Hessell and the 'Sahara effect'
Longmires daughter now playing AFL.
Too right. Always a bit of a gripe for me that the Academy didn't accept girls (given how few of them were expected to play AFL and how a stated objective was to increase the exposure of the game). I have two very talented daughters that compete at the highest level in soccer and athletics, and I can absolutely see them having a crack at this at some point (if only to fulfill their father's dream to have offspring in R&W!!).
I read that article and I take back some of my comments. I still think we should be playing more ressies games before the seniors at the SCG but we need to embrace the fastest growing segment of the game.
Also happy to read that two of Horse's colts are in the academy system, how good would it be if they were guns and we got them instead of North.
Did anyone watch the Women? Who won and what did you think of the standard?
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