Carlton AFLW Review - Half Gone

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Its worse than that though. The puzzle itself keeps changing!

The fact you can only contract players for MAX 2 years means you can't plan a team or build around a player or players, because 2 years later they could all be gone! We have been leaking players for a while because we were good at picking them and developing them and its come back to bite us.

Yep, rather than being penalised for adopting AFLW late, rock spiders like the Cheats have been rewarded, coming in late and picking the eyes out of developed talent.

Our club, in partnership with the Feds and State poured money in developing Princes Park as the developing headquarters of AFLW. Then years later the Cheats who ignored AFLW cry poor and get funding to bring a new facility up to gender neutral scratch!

Of course this is added to the already more complex environment that is evident in managing AFLW lists, because many of the girls seem incapable of checking personal relationships or conflicts at the door, this will always leave them in a semi-professional state. You can't have your cake and eat it, you either get the big dollars and work with who you are told to work with, or you pick and choose and accept less.

The lesson is next time the AFL float a new project, run away, let the others do the hard work first!