AFLW 2019 GF: Carlton vs Adelaide

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The conspiracy theory was in regards to this...

That's no conspiracy theory, it's just a statement that the events of the recent past may have place a darker toll on Tayla's performance. It's dead easy to discuss what we see in the public forums in ignorance of all the stuff that Tayla either blocked or had moderated behind the scenes away from the general public.

Further, there are those who wouldn't hesitate at leveraging those events in the lead-up to the grand final, altruism does not live with fanatics so who knows what she had to put up with or her family for that matter in the days since the original story.

I also thought Harf made a rookie mistake in the presser when he allowed the media to press Tayla on the effects the events had on her family and friends. Something at her age and circumstance she may have not fully considered until the media so kindly proselytised those sinister effects! He should have chopped off that line of questioning and consigned it to private discussions not a public debate.

Ongoing this is something Tayla must now live with, at Carlton or any other future club or sport, no different to Adam Goodes getting accustomed to being booed!

Without wanting to turn this into a genetics debate, there is a school of thought that Female athletes are more prone to waivering performances due to biological factors.

Whatever the symptoms or circumstances it may well be issue, but from the girls I've talked to it is very much less so the higher the level of training, almost a non-event!