AFLW 2022

[kruddler]

99.999% of men / boys that play footy have no expectation that they will play AFL, it's not part of reality or a motivation.

Women need amateur football standards to rise dramatically and quickly.

99.999% of  boys that play footy don't make it to the elite level, so their inclusion in any such debate is irrelevant.

But, the point you are attempting to make goes back to the chicken and the egg.
If you want participation of girls to go up, give them a reason to start playing. Show them a well run competition in which they can make a living and they are more likely to start playing than if it was for just 1 WB vs Melb game a year on tv.

The AFL put all this time and effort into get this competition up and running.....not they are hamstringing themselves by going half-ar$ed now.

Its like paying 100mil to get the Gold Coast Suns up and running, and then forcing them to pay their own way once they actually started playing games at AFL level. A decade later and the AFL is still propping them up with no end in sight. Why should the womens be any different?
The AFL always say expansion takes a generation to take hold...