**Still won’t be at Windy Hill, presumably.
Why is there a game on a Wednesday? Who is calling for midweek footy?
Thank goodness the AFL ditched the idea of having a game on AFL Grand Final Saturday in the morning. Was an absolute shitshow.
There is no Round 11 @theDJR.
They’ve replaced Rounds with Weeks, and are calling it 11 games in 10 weeks.
Hey @theDJR, any idea what the womens training days will be in late July/early August?
We’ll finally be in town after a 5 year absence, and my girls are desperate to meet some of the team (and we’ll be gone before the season starts).
My guess is it’s a trial to see how many games they can squeeze in without lengthening the season.
No idea now, but we’ll know before then. Generally AFL train daytime and VFL nighttime.
cheers mate, I’ll check back in July!
Another random one, and probably not the right thread for it, but does anyone know if they still let you on the ground at the MCG after the last game of the round? We’re going to the Bombers/Freo game and I’d love to take the girls out on the turf like we did back in the day.
You can check here closer to the date
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Some of the weird scheduling is the AFaiL continuing to ensure AFLW never really succeeds. They have put conditions in like - each round needs to get a certain crowd limit before they will consider giving the girls more games but scheduling a Wed ‘home’ game at Whitten Oval against an interstate team, is an absolute farce.
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After looking at the fixture (and predicting where every team will finish), I have us finishing…
14th
I will now duck the tomatoes being thrown my way.
Are you predicting we will start the season 1-9, then beat the Tiggers and FCFC?
EDIT: I see you have Footscray and Wet Toast below us, so maybe not.
After a 17th-placed finish last year, West Coast will avoid three of last year’s top four finishers, but will play preliminary finalist Geelong.
Meanwhile North Melbourne will once again face all seven of its fellow 2023 finalists, after being the only team to play every finalist last year.
After reaching finals for the first time last year, both Essendon and Sydney will play all but two other finalists, increasing the difficulty of their schedules, while Port Adelaide avoids five 2023 finalists – the most of any club.
I look forward to a fixture when every team is playing every other team one time, maybe around 2035? 
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Optimistic.
Especially since it will need 19 rounds shortly.
A perspective on the growth of the NRLW and how it’s taking off. The AFLW has a limited time to go full throttle on growing the women’s AFL game, or be left behind. The NRL have a gold nugget vehicle to help them grow the code, the AFL better start investing and going grand scale ambitions or it might play second fiddle. The next 2-3 years critical to get its plans in place and make it happen.
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I’m telling ya, the path forward for AFLW is to fark off this notion it needs to win over followers of the men’s comp, and pitch the product to a completely different audience.
There is a big enough market there to make it very successful.
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Yep, the Matildas proved that. There is a whole new audience out there.
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I just think the AFL need to start having bigger ambitions. It can’t just keep playing in parkland / rundown stadiums with poor facilities and short seasons. It needs to elevate the investment in the game, its facilities etc to bring fans to games and help grow it.