Grand Final

[kruddler]

I stand by my assertion, the AFL style bumps, the tackles, the stuff the players want to be the same as the men's game disproportionately kills momentum in AFLW. There is no point denying it, it descends into an under age like scrum all too easily, and that negatively impacts the scoring.

There is absolutely no point commentators calling a scoring fest of 3 or 4 goals, it's a lie the media perpetrate and everybody knows it, it's now becoming a parody!

The girls no matter how great the physical differences on field, more often than not are completely unable to shrug or stand in tackles and dispose. Sure, you get examples / incidents that contradict this, but they are exceptions.

Without momentum, the bulk of AFLW players can barely handball 5m, outside of throws stopping the players momentum locks the footy into a 5m radius, and from there the game descends into chaos all too often. As much as it might be fun to play, the spectacle then becomes ordinary as Mrs DJC seems to point out.

I am and always will be an AFLW booster, but if we ignore the perceptions of casual fans we doom the sport, because it's living a lie.

What you are describing is the end result of the skill level.
A skill level that has been diluted due to expanding too much too soon.

Once the 5yo's who grew up playing the game come through, the skill level will rise and the 'problems' you describe will minimise.

Of course another factor is the types of grounds the girls play on by comparison to the AFL. Was it earlier this year that one of the girls kicked a goal from the centre square thanks to the breeze. You don't get those kind of conditions in AFL because of the enclosed stadiums. You do in the VFL and you get similar 'scrum-type' football.