I am starting this thread not to upset or denigrate anyone involved in AFLW - want to make that clear.

After watching The Swans AFLW team in their first few games and also watching other teams over the last few years, I have formed some opinions about AFLW.

The low level of scoring in most games is concerning - just doesn't make for good viewing. I think it is significant The Swans first game at North Sydney was our highest scoring and most interesting game. Crowd involvement was great as well.

I think the general problem with the game is - The grounds are too bloody big! It was shown up yesterday when we tried to play absolute top line footy with distribution by handball to an overlap player to try and setup the perfect disposal. The problem with this is that this draws too many players near the ball to help out and when (if) the ball is kicked forward there is no one left inside 50M! I think North just had at least 1 player that was told to hold her position about 40M out no matter what happens.

A shorter ground would prevent this from happening as forwards would tend to play close to goal and should result in higher scoring. Playing AFLW games at grounds like Whitten Oval is insane - its a huge ground.

As far as I know the footy is smaller for AFLW games so why isn't the ground. Long term there must be at least 1 dedicated ground in each State for AFLW. Not talking about replicating a mini MCG etc just something about 120M long which seems to be the sweet spot. Not sure how long North Sydney is but it seems much shorter on TV anyway. A lot of AFLW games seem to be played between the forward 30-40M of each team.

Interested in other Members thoughts.