Wow, the VFLW released some stats.
I’m sure it was an accident and they’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Ooh. Lots of photos by Martin Keep on the AFL site at:
(yes, the preview above is botched - link is good)
A few below. First is the ruck contest: almost equal on height but not on width or depth!
And another contest:
The captain don’t give a ■■■■ if she looks funny.
BOG. Doesn’t close her eyes when marking. Peanut is not in shot.
Shepherds and smothers late in the game (nice stationary rain drops):
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Oh yeah, and Alana agrees with my comments above and knows what she has to work on: look at what is written on the wrist tape.
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I preferred my call/description above, but play of the day is extracted properly below. The second and third tackles are the vice-captain and captain leading from the front, the kick from half-back is nominally into the wind, and Federica makes it look so easy.
EDIT: well, extracted. It got compressed a lot compared to the original.
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Re the skill level and whether the game is worth watching, you have to stop thinking in terms of the skill level you are used to seeing in the men’s game. If that is the standard of the best women around at that level of professionalism and experience, then that is what it is.
To put it in context, I played a low grade of suburban football when I was young, and we were an ok team at the level. I didn’t watch much VFL (as it was then) at the time, and when I did, it was frankly embarrassing to go to training the next week and realise how poor the skill standard was. But we were just ordinary blokes and that was what we were capable of, and the teams we played against were similar.
We had committed players, coaches and supporters and none of us threw up our hands and gave up because we weren’t up to professional standard (and never would be). It’s the nature of sport at the lower levels.
Club athletics versus Olympics, local mid week basketball versus NBA.
You watch your kids play U11 football or cricket and its bloody terrible, but it’s what kids that age are capable of, and it’s fine, and it’s no less enjoyable or less competitive.
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