(01-28-2021, 10:23 PM)Thryleon date Wrote:People want to win matches not entertain.I think you've missed the point, my commentary was not about the spectacle as a sport, it was about it's ability to compete for dollars and survival against elite male sport to achieve a parity.
Rule #1, put hard tags on your opposition best players.
If that worked, then its up to US to work out how to deal with it, not whinge and moan about the spectacle.
We are so self important, but footy has never been about entertaining fans, and has always been about winning footy matches.
the sooner people who have a whine about the entertainment realise that, the happier they will be with the end product (particularly when their team wins).
Playing the same game as the men, using the same tactics, is surely a dead end because the girls won't even achieve parity with the efforts of teenage boys! So how can a sport survive in a professional sphere to achieve wage and career parity when it's effectively 3rd or 4th tier at best? As a sporting spectacle they are not even on parity with boys U15s!
So I maintain it needs a style and optic all of it's own.
People will try to paint me as an AFLW troll for writing the above commentary, particularly those who think the game should be the same for all genders and ages, which it isn't anyway already. I've been a booster for AFLW from the start, but it's clear to me it cannot be the same game as men.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"