SA Footy

Jim05 wrote:

Corona Man wrote:To make any type of comparison of Women’s footy to mens is not very fair. It’s still a very new game to many of them and of course the skills are not there. Boys have spent a good part of their lives kicking and catching a footy, I think the next generation of girls, who grow up doing will be a better crop. I am a little torn on the issue, daughter plays with her local club and she loves it. She barely gets a kick, but so what, she’s having fun and staying fit. I’ve umpired a number of girls games too and again at local level the skills vary, from ok, to awful. Girls games can either be really easy, or bloody difficult to umpire in.

Women’s tennis is still shit and they have about 100 years head start on AFLW

You’ve lost the plot Jim.... All tennis is shit!

Corona Man wrote:

Jim05 wrote:

Corona Man wrote:To make any type of comparison of Women’s footy to mens is not very fair. It’s still a very new game to many of them and of course the skills are not there. Boys have spent a good part of their lives kicking and catching a footy, I think the next generation of girls, who grow up doing will be a better crop. I am a little torn on the issue, daughter plays with her local club and she loves it. She barely gets a kick, but so what, she’s having fun and staying fit. I’ve umpired a number of girls games too and again at local level the skills vary, from ok, to awful. Girls games can either be really easy, or bloody difficult to umpire in.

Women’s tennis is still shit and they have about 100 years head start on AFLW

You’ve lost the plot Jim.... All tennis is shit!

That we all can agree upon.

amber_fluid wrote:
Women’s footy is trying to copy men’s footy but the standard is no where near it.
They should play with different rules or numbers or something to make it unique.

They already play 16 a side

Dutchy wrote:

amber_fluid wrote:
Women’s footy is trying to copy men’s footy but the standard is no where near it.
They should play with different rules or numbers or something to make it unique.

They already play 16 a side

On big ovals though.
They need to play on small suburban grounds to make scoring easier.
Their 25 kicks are more suited to smaller grounds.

Jim05 wrote:

Corona Man wrote:To make any type of comparison of Women’s footy to mens is not very fair. It’s still a very new game to many of them and of course the skills are not there. Boys have spent a good part of their lives kicking and catching a footy, I think the next generation of girls, who grow up doing will be a better crop. I am a little torn on the issue, daughter plays with her local club and she loves it. She barely gets a kick, but so what, she’s having fun and staying fit. I’ve umpired a number of girls games too and again at local level the skills vary, from ok, to awful. Girls games can either be really easy, or bloody difficult to umpire in.

Women’s tennis is still shit and they have about 100 years head start on AFLW

And get the same pay for half the workload. Remember when the Williams girls said they could beat any male player ranked outside the top 200, some dude just outside the top 200 took on the challenge and won comfortably and said he played like a player ranked 500 just to keep it interesting.

Laughable

I remember last season blokes on here I have a high opinion of stating AFLW sides beating senior SAAFL sides. Absolutely laughable wouldn’t beat the better under 15 sides. Hence why in opinion you can’t compare any AFLW to any level of males playing Aussies rules as it’s peas and carrots.

It just frustrates me the false numbers they ram down our throats. Great Crowd- Of course it is, in the democratic we currently live in its a FREE night out with the kids, some aren’t as fortunate as other to afford other things to do. Start charging and it’ll be family members and friends only in the crowd.

Minor I know but, the super coach numbers totally fabricated for woman to pump up the game.

The poster girls- Mo Hope- Shit, Tex Perkins- Shit and the Brisbane super star- Shit
They’re are far better young girls than these yet they’re up in lights! How? Marquee my ass

My Uber is here. Over and out

Such a pity the Uber turned up. You were building up a great head of steam Carey and I got the feeling a “dick in your ass” type sledge was only a sentence or two away!

Corona Man wrote:Such a pity the Uber turned up. You were building up a great head of steam Carey and I got the feeling a “dick in your ass” type sledge was only a sentence or two away!

A dick up the arse comment in the AFLW thread would be interesting................

hollywood7477 wrote:

LaughingKookaburra wrote:I just don’t know how the hell anyone could miss that in the goal square 30 metres on their own. I’m still in shock!

Google Josh Bruce he’s missed a few from the goalsquare

Jack Newnes today [emoji33]

amber_fluid wrote:

Dutchy wrote:

amber_fluid wrote:
Women’s footy is trying to copy men’s footy but the standard is no where near it.
They should play with different rules or numbers or something to make it unique.

They already play 16 a side

On big ovals though.
They need to play on small suburban grounds to make scoring easier.
Their 25 kicks are more suited to smaller grounds.

Smaller ovals would make it much scrappier, watched all of the North/Crows game yesterday and it was a good enjoyable spectacle, ball pinged up and down the ground with much less stoppages than previous years. One thing that stood out to me was both teams hitting leading forwards, that wasn't happening in the first 2 years.

Watched a bit on the weekend, standard is getting far better. Adelaide v Roos game was entertaining

I watched the last 10 minutes and was surprised how many kicks hit their targets. Definitely improving. My daughter plays U14 last year (U16 this year) and each side she plays there is 3-4 guns who skill wise could probably play AFLW now besides the physicality. Next 4 years the league will blossom.

MW wrote:I watched the last 10 minutes and was surprised how many kicks hit their targets. Definitely improving. My daughter plays U14 last year (U16 this year) and each side she plays there is 3-4 guns who skill wise could probably play AFLW now besides the physicality. Next 4 years the league will blossom.

I'm of the same opinion. The competition in it's infancy has been littered with ladies either transitioning from other codes or choosing to play footy in addition to. I wonder if the investment in junior pathways for women will see an influx of pure footballers (if that makes sense), thus lifting the standard of the game.

MW wrote:I watched the last 10 minutes and was surprised how many kicks hit their targets. Definitely improving. My daughter plays U14 last year (U16 this year) and each side she plays there is 3-4 guns who skill wise could probably play AFLW now besides the physicality. Next 4 years the league will blossom.

You don't know what you're talking about.

I don't watch it and know it's shit.



( Couldn't have all this positive discussion without some #safootylogic )

That is SaFooty logic


I think some of the “part time” footballers have gone past some of the original stars like Taylor Harris and Mo Hope.

MW wrote:I watched the last 10 minutes and was surprised how many kicks hit their targets. Definitely improving. My daughter plays U14 last year (U16 this year) and each side she plays there is 3-4 guns who skill wise could probably play AFLW now besides the physicality. Next 4 years the league will blossom.

Yeah mate, the high performance training that goes into the teens now is far superior to what it was a couple of years ago, we'll see the benefits big time in 3 to 4 years, gradual til then.

valleys07 wrote:

MW wrote:I watched the last 10 minutes and was surprised how many kicks hit their targets. Definitely improving. My daughter plays U14 last year (U16 this year) and each side she plays there is 3-4 guns who skill wise could probably play AFLW now besides the physicality. Next 4 years the league will blossom.

I'm of the same opinion. The competition in it's infancy has been littered with ladies either transitioning from other codes or choosing to play footy in addition to. I wonder if the investment in junior pathways for women will see an influx of pure footballers (if that makes sense), thus lifting the standard of the game.

Speaking of which, will we see Heather next season

Watching a bit of the Collingwood game yesterday Sharni Layton doesn't look particularly suited to football.

Armchair expert wrote:They rushed it, they needed to take 5 years developing 16-21 year olds to teach them the skills of the game...when you have 30 year olds that can't mark or kick a drop punt then there really is little hope for them. The quality will no doubt improve its just whether people will still be interested when it does. If they can get to under 15 male quality then they would have done well.

Yep, but in that time any one of decent ability is off to play a sport where they can represent at the very least in a national competition, rather than just something as low level as the SANFLW

I’ve only ever watched 15 minutes of the “elite” competition so I’m probably not qualified to comment