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AFLW 2020 Rd 6: Carlton vs Melbourne at Traeger Park, Alice Springs - crashlander - 03-08-2020
This is another very important game for us, at a very different venue. Not easy at all.
Re: AFLW 2020 Rd 6: Carlton vs Melbourne at Traeger Park, Alice Springs - crashlander - 03-13-2020
We are going in with an unchanged lineup this week. I'll post the team tomorrow.
We are on TV.
No crowd will be allowed in.
Re: AFLW 2020 Rd 6: Carlton vs Melbourne at Traeger Park, Alice Springs - capcom - 03-13-2020
The sheer number of ACLs on the news services occurring in this series should give pause to many. The competition will die soon enough.
Re: AFLW 2020 Rd 6: Carlton vs Melbourne at Traeger Park, Alice Springs - Jack Burton - 03-13-2020
(03-13-2020, 11:40 PM)capcom link Wrote:The sheer number of ACLs on the news services occurring in this series should give pause to many. The competition will die soon enough.This competition won't die anytime soon. Junior girls numbers are through the roof around here. The actual and potential $$$ for the AFL will ensure they keep it going no matter what
Re: AFLW 2020 Rd 6: Carlton vs Melbourne at Traeger Park, Alice Springs - kruddler - 03-13-2020
(03-13-2020, 11:40 PM)capcom link Wrote:The sheer number of ACLs on the news services occurring in this series should give pause to many. The competition will die soon enough.
If you want to limit the number of ACL's that occur, simply wait.
Reason being, a lot of the ACLs that occur are because most of the girls playing have not played football their whole life. They have come from other sports, or at least had a layoff in the teenage years due to no competition available to them. Their bodies are not accustomed to the demands of AFL football.
Added to that, they are only part time footballers. They don't have the ability to focus on footy (and their bodies) full time.
An example...
Our own Nat Plane is a landscape gardener by trade. She does the tough slog at work for 8 hours or so, THEN goes to training where she is expected to be an elite athlete. Then goes back to work the next morning bright and early. I'm tired just thinking about what she has to go through, and i'm not sure how much rest her body gets. As we know fatigue leads to injuries.
There are plenty of other girls in similar situations.
In a way, she might be one of the lucky ones as her work keeps her relatively fit. Other girls who might sit behind a desk all day might have to do extras to get their fitness base up to scratch.
Pay them more money, and let the new age of female footballers come through who have been able to play their whole life and ACLs will drop.
Re: AFLW 2020 Rd 6: Carlton vs Melbourne at Traeger Park, Alice Springs - capcom - 03-13-2020
I've made my one and only comment on this competition in this thread. It stands
Re: AFLW 2020 Rd 6: Carlton vs Melbourne at Traeger Park, Alice Springs - kruddler - 03-14-2020
(03-13-2020, 11:55 PM)capcom link Wrote:I've made my one and only comment on this competition in this thread. It stands
I'll bet London to a brick you are wrong.
Re: AFLW 2020 Rd 6: Carlton vs Melbourne at Traeger Park, Alice Springs - LP - 03-14-2020
Science has a very good understanding already why this happens to the girls, there are multiple contributing factors. but that's no valid reason to kill off female sport. A very simple demonstration is knee hyper-extension, lock your knees, most men will find their knees stop at the vertical, most women and some men who are susceptible to ACLs will find their knee joint passes the vertical. In addition there are cyclic changes that affect the strength and elasticity of female ligaments.
At the moment the girls are still basically playing the men's game with male style tactics and strategies, I'm sure that will evolve once a more targeted approach finds some success to guide the way. I won't be surprised to find the rules diverge a little as well in the long term. We may even find the men following some the girls rules changes, go ask Clarkson!
If you watch the girls there are already aspects of their game that are ahead of the men. The girls are much much better at following team game plans and structures, they have very few team members who want to be heroes, and they take a more collaborative approach. To the shallow observer that shows up as kicking the ball directly to opponents, which just ignores the fact that the girls are clearly better at quickly setting up and maintaining a defensive structure. In the men's game many of these kicks go to free space because the defence isn't there yet. There are very few dunderheads chook running in the girls competition.
When men stop watching the girls game expecting to see men's style football they might get a better understanding and appreciation of the differences and attributes.
I've been pleasantly surprised by the progress of some teams, particularly ours, as they seem ahead of where I would expect them to be. It's a credit to Harf to have them on this trajectory.
Re: AFLW 2020 Rd 6: Carlton vs Melbourne at Traeger Park, Alice Springs - kruddler - 03-14-2020
(03-14-2020, 12:41 AM)LP link Wrote:I've been pleasantly surprised by the progress of some teams, particularly ours, as they seem ahead of where I would expect them to be. It's a credit to Harf to have them on this trajectory.
The competition as a whole has improved, despite adding more and more teams. The quality of the 18yo's coming in can be seen.
Maddie Prespakis last year, Lucy McEvoy and Grace Egan this year....compare that to the elite marquee players from year 1.....and they are ahead of them already.
Re: AFLW 2020 Rd 6: Carlton vs Melbourne at Traeger Park, Alice Springs - LP - 03-14-2020
(03-14-2020, 01:06 AM)kruddler date Wrote:The competition as a whole has improved, despite adding more and more teams. The quality of the 18yo's coming in can be seen.Egan is a ripper, some will tag her as a Gibbs type, to me that a positive but others will see her as a big body that doesn't use it in traffic, but to me they are taking a very myopic approach to talent assessment. I've absolutely no doubt Nthmond will be spitting chips about not getting her on their list, I hope we can keep hold of her.
Maddie Prespakis last year, Lucy McEvoy and Grace Egan this year....compare that to the elite marquee players from year 1.....and they are ahead of them already.
For me the only real disappointing and unprofessional aspect of AFLW is the politics of trade, it's too easy for friends and buddies to move club to play together or to move to the team they grew up supporting. I understand why the AFL allows this, but at some stage it either has to change or lose the respect of fans. Professional is professional, there is no having a bit each way!
Having said that I'd love Chiocci at our club, but I respect her professionalism and commitment to the Filth. The others who choose to move for trivial reasons are really undermining the integrity of the competition.