Also, Amy Gaylor is now flat out my favourite Essendon player.
Mens, womens, whoever.
Gaylor is a proper footballer.
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Why canāt they get to a 17 game season? Start it a bit earlier? Or run it a bit later?
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Iām not 100% sure but I believe that there are criteria that have to be met before the AFL extends the season.
Attendance numbers is oneā¦the figure of 4000 average crowd springs to mind (but again, Iām not sure if thatās accurate)
My ears hearing the girls sing the song 
Just found this:
NEW AFLW boss Emma Moore says the competition can build the momentum needed to thrive and hit its own metrics for further season expansion.
The 2024 season starts during next weekās AFL pre-finals bye, beginning with Sydney hosting Collingwood at North Sydney Oval on Friday night.
The 18-team competition, which is now 11 games plus finals, is due to expand to 12 regular-season rounds by 2025, and potentially 14 during the five-year deal signed last September.
But the latter expansion is dependent on achievement of key audience metrics (average attendance of 6000 fans, average broadcast viewers of 100,000).
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and to do that weāll play games on a wednesday in ā ā ā ā ā ā ā footscray
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Anyone who didnāt get a hug from G today is a BUM.
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Not even good Footscray.
West Footscray.
Money.
The comp isnāt self sustainable yet. And thatās when the menās comp is not interfering as much.
They will add more games next year and begin the season earlier as per the āplayers associationā agreement.
But itās going to be a logistical nightmare if clubs have 4 games to manage on a weekend. Even worse if itās in different parts of the country. Iām not sure if they can do a VFLW / VFL / AFLW back to back to back game.
Doing an AFLW / AFL back to back game will not add money financially unless there is enough of a gap to get people in and out of both games. In the past, the earlier game is a āfreebieā which wonāt suit AFLW at all.
Games I attend - 0 wins, 2 losses
Games I donāt attend - 3 wins, 1 loss, 1 honey badger hug.
Iām cursed.
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Heart doesnāt need that on a Wednesday night.
Another win though.
Momentum.
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Also lets use clash jumpers to clash coloursā¦ AFL is weird.
Black and white are clashing colours.
Wait! There was hugs from G?!
I never get a hug from G 
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It was DEAD.
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There might have been three yobbos doing that all night to the Swans cheer squad behind themā¦
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There is a limited supply 
Geez they miked the place up well to hide what happens on a Wednesday night at a ground neither team wants to be at.
Gardiner just a casual 35 disposals, 7 clearances, and 6 inside fifties.
- Paige Scott led the game for boring marks and occasionally remembered to do boring disposals before being caught
- Walker snuck under the radar for me tonightā¦ admitted the vision from the fence is horrid.
- Wales the only ruck who tried to ruck. Disgusting umpiring stopped her dominating there (she won our inside fifties due to lack of competition)
- G wins clearances.
- vanLoonā¦ did OK
- Gay/Gaylor/Cain/Prespakis did their thing (Amy slots in fine with that group), and then there were a fair number of passengers.
- FFS, put Amber on the wing and let her destroy anyone in the league with that pace (and use her long kicking to scare defenders) . I was going nuts when she started that sprint ten metres behind, and she did not disappoint! Gee, on the other handā¦
- Adams can perform the forward pocket role much better (especially since Amber doesnāt actually play that role).
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