(12-14-2022, 08:44 PM)Professer E date Wrote:It's funny LP, my daughter is on the fringes of the AFLW system (she has very close friends involved) and what you talk about is what I see and it's an issue.In recent years our club has tried to be more inclusive, more balanced, after a less than salubrious start.
Other club's that tend towards a less global/moral approach have actively pursued this minority aspect of AFLW, generating cliques and divides as they go, but they can't survive that way because it's a minority perspective. They are going to burn their social capital very quickly if they don't have almost immediate success.
In the short term it has cost us dearly, but in the long term we should be better off.
Now the other thing to remember at the moment, in the short term, these cliques are not just restricted to on-field!
It's quite bizarre to see AFLW teams and club's shooting themselves in the foot, but they do and will continue to do so in the short term.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"