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@acat493 doesn’t have to do much to trigger a quality rant (and history lesson) from @PH_WARFRadio on the scheduling of women’s footy.
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The first line of this article (above) is extracting the urine re: the definitely-not-announced brought-forward season.
The AFL (or its sometimes contrary communication specialists) are kinda announcing their announcement.
No need to read it; it basically says “get ■■■■■■, all of ya”.
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Not actually voted on yet.
LOL at the AFL tying their own hands and having to cough up more money.
18 teams, 10 rounds… geez. They probably won’t even do the obvious thing and make it two divisions (with the 9th and 10th game used for “derbies” etc).
We are rapidly running out of time to poach players, given they need to squeeze official poaching time, NAB league poaching, trade time, and draft in the next month if they want to have a “normal” pre-season…
AFLW players have nearly doubled their pay in a one-year deal with the AFL that could be announced as soon as Thursday afternoon.
Under the terms of the deal – which the AFLW players will vote on and are expected to endorse at 1pm on Thursday – the AFL’s women players will receive a minimum of about $39,000 and a top tier (tier 1) of around $71,000 in a 10-game home-and-away season.
The second and third, or middle-tier players, will be paid about $47,000 and $55,000 respectively.
These payments represent an increase of more than 90 per cent for each of the tiers. The tier-one players, who are the competition’s stars, consist of just two players per club.
The one-year deal was forced upon the AFL because the league and the AFLW players could not agree on the length of season after the upcoming season, which has been brought forward to August.
The players wanted to see a progression to a longer home-and-away season, as the competition expands to 18 clubs, but the AFL did not want to have more than 10 games locked in for the subsequent two seasons.
There will be four weeks of finals in this upcoming season, rather than just three weeks of finals, with the finals expanded from a top six to a top eight – in the line with the fact that there will be 18 teams for the first time, with Hawthorn, Essendon, Port Adelaide and Sydney entering the AFLW.
Sources familiar with the negotiations between the AFL and the AFL Players’ Association said the AFL’s hand was forced because the league had already announced the dates of the next season and had little choice but to give up bigger pay increases than what had previously been on offer, which were tier-1 payments of $67,000 down to tier 4 getting $37,000.
In the season just completed, within the same calendar year, the minimum pay for AFLW players was just over $20,239, with $24,468 for tier 3, $28,697 for tier 2 and the highest paid players receiving $37,155.
I am a big supporter of AFLW.
The people that run it are ■■■■■■■ it up big time. I like many fans voice the concerns similar to that of Daisy Pearce. We don’t want a Micky Mouse Competition. Well that’s exactly what it is.
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They just played a 4 goal to 2 Grand Final, they’re doing a decent job of that themselves.
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Fix the comp otherwise we will pay alot more than what it is worth, fixing it should include:
Every team plays each other once or twice either way that’s a fair comp.
The AFLW has to mimick that of the AFL. Who ever the men play that week, the women play also, either before or after have it as AFL choosing. The best reasoning for this is equity & economics.
Each home ground of AFLW should also be home ground of the men.
Each supporter membership should include both comps
The rest build upon that but anything short & it’s Mickey Mouse.
Don’t agree with this bit.
Some supporters may only wish to support one area of the club, I don’t think forcing them into choosing both is a great idea especially with how crap our mens team is 
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They literally just need to walk down the road to Cricket Australia HQ and get the people who turned womens cricket into the product it is now.
Women’s cricket in Australia is now a standalone, hugely profitable, product. It wasn’t 10 years ago.
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Cricket had one huge advantage and that was the TV rights deals for T20 and the WBBL
I can’t stand T20 cricket but you can’t deny the revenue from it has advanced the game for both male and female players
yeah but then it wouldn’t be Gill’s idea
It’s not forcing them to choose, it’s the fact you would like to. There isn’t anywhere I mentioned forcing members to choose.
Some supporters like AFL, some like AFLW some like VFL.
Choose who you like.
Like it says should include or I gather your not an all inclusive man?
Which the answer is ok.
I think the goal for AFLW has to be it is a standalone competition, not an addition to the mens game. So you’d want seperate memberships.
AFLW CBA locked in, season start date confirmed (essendonfc.com.au)
A one-year bridging AFLW Collective Bargaining Agreement has been struck between the AFL and AFLPA ahead of the competition’s new season in August.
Season seven of the AFLW will now commence in the last weekend of August, and consist of 10 home-and-away rounds and a four-week finals series, with the Grand Final to be held on the last weekend of November.
The CBA deal will result in a substantial pay rise of an average of 94 per cent across all four payment tiers, with players having been particularly keen to have their unpaid hours (maintaining fitness, recovery etc) recognised in the new deal.
The top tier will be paid $71,935, while the minimum AFLW wage will increase from $20,239 to around $39,184
With the CBA signed, the AFL and AFLPA confirmed the new season will start in the AFL pre-finals bye in the last weekend in August, four and a half months after Adelaide was crowned premier of the 2022 (part A) season.
The long-awaited dates around the Sign and Trade Period and the NAB AFLW Draft have now also been finalised.
The Expansion Signing period will commence on May 24, with the Sign and Trade period to commence on May 31.
So we have 11 days to ANNOUNCE all of the ANNOUNCEMENTS.
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- AFLW Expansion Signing Period 24 May 2022
- Sign and Trade Period 31 May 2022
- NAB AFLW Draft 29 June 2022
- Pre-season commences 13 June 2022
- Season Commences, 25-27 August 2022*
- Finals commences, 4-6 November 2022*
- NAB AFLW Grand Final, Weekend of 25-27 November 2022*
VFLW finals are running June 11-July 2/3.
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The overlap of the VFLW and AFLW preseason is not ideal.
I hope Essendon and Hawthorn do the same thing.
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Hopefully they are already in discussions about this.
Off the record, of course.