09-10-2018, 04:55 AM
(09-10-2018, 01:59 AM)LP link Wrote:I don't understand this Mouncey situation.
Regardless of whether you are for or against, Mouncey and her team of lawyers or political influencers basically pursued rule changes so that Hannah could play and now the plug has been pulled on an AFLW career because of ill feelings from people on the administrative side!
Just a few weeks ago I heard some rumors from attendees at AFLW games of Mouncey being dragged by Darebin to limit game time and influence. The allegation was that Hannah was being managed to ensure that any perceived dominance during games did not cause too much of a stir. I believe managers/coaches Darebin denied this late in the season and stated Hannah being benched was just team or form related.
Well what does all this mean, I suspect if you are being managed through games because you are too dominant that makes a mockery of the competition. On the flip side, if you are regularly being benched at VFLW level due to structural or form issues you probably are not going to make the draft anyway!
Yet today the media reports that it is all about a bias, am I being too harsh by being cynical?
Just a day or so after Serena Williams tried to bully a male match official into forgiving her and her coach for cheating, Serena has continued to deny this despite the coach admitted in a live to air interview that he was coaching from the sidelines, and the subsequent fines for being coached form the sidelines, yet apparently the official is just being sexist or racist? Adam Goodes anyone? Serena has been dominant, must she now make an excuse?
I suppose this is the fate of all sports, as potential earning increase integrity exits!
I agree with all of that.
I am as big a critic of the AFL as anyone but they were in an unwinnable position on this one.
Hannah bowing out on her own would be a big relief and probably the most sensible outcome although I understand it must be a bitter pill to swallow.