Brodlach wrote:Think the most AFLW games a woman could have played so far is 28. They’ve improved a lot.
I think that's it Brod. My son is 10 and will play his 100th game this season and grown up with a footy under his arm since he was 2. My daughter is playing her 3rd season this year and still ONLY kicks a footy at training. In total, she might've played 25 games. In football terms, she's 10 years behind my son as far as experience and exposure to the game.
I think people are expecting miracles with the women's footy. To those people I say, give it time.
Dutchy wrote:An unlike most men, these women haven't had a footy in their hands since they can walk, that will change over time, personally I think they should have left it as a 8 team competition for the 1st 5 years, with the current expansion it is going to spread the talent too thin, it will get there it just needs time.
Exactly right.
Armchair expert wrote:Standard is still poor but from I saw last night the younger players have better skills than the older players, the players with zero skills who can’t kick a droppunt will be moved on rather quickly. Give it 3 years and I think the standard will improve 10fold.
Too right, the time and resources that is getting put into the 10-17 year olds now is incredible and intense, my daughter was in the Crows under 16 team last season and their training was brutal and with no heat policy.
Dutchy wrote: An unlike most men, these women haven't had a footy in their hands since they can walk, that will change over time, personally I think they should have left it as a 8 team competition for the 1st 5 years, with the current expansion it is going to spread the talent too thin, it will get there it just needs time.
Who would've thought that a competition organiser would expand the competition to the detriment of the game (Hello BBL!)?
Less game time. Less goals. Of course he ******* would.
Sydney coach John Longmire believes a shorter season and shorter games would have a wide range of benefits for the AFL and its players. Under the current broadcast rights agreement until the end of 2022, the 18 teams will play 22 games in a home and away season, with four 20-minute (plus time on) quarters for every match.
But asked on SEN Breakfast if there was one thing he could add to the game what it'd be, Longmire said: “I'd shorten the season and shorten the games. So I actually wouldn’t add to it, I’d take it away – and I think that way you get more quality, you get your better players playing for longer and playing in more games during the season.”
Booney wrote:Less game time. Less goals. Of course he ******* would.
Sydney coach John Longmire believes a shorter season and shorter games would have a wide range of benefits for the AFL and its players. Under the current broadcast rights agreement until the end of 2022, the 18 teams will play 22 games in a home and away season, with four 20-minute (plus time on) quarters for every match.
But asked on SEN Breakfast if there was one thing he could add to the game what it'd be, Longmire said: “I'd shorten the season and shorten the games. So I actually wouldn’t add to it, I’d take it away – and I think that way you get more quality, you get your better players playing for longer and playing in more games during the season.”
Booney wrote:Less game time. Less goals. Of course he ******* would.
Sydney coach John Longmire believes a shorter season and shorter games would have a wide range of benefits for the AFL and its players. Under the current broadcast rights agreement until the end of 2022, the 18 teams will play 22 games in a home and away season, with four 20-minute (plus time on) quarters for every match.
But asked on SEN Breakfast if there was one thing he could add to the game what it'd be, Longmire said: “I'd shorten the season and shorten the games. So I actually wouldn’t add to it, I’d take it away – and I think that way you get more quality, you get your better players playing for longer and playing in more games during the season.”
Booney wrote:Less game time. Less goals. Of course he ******* would.
Sydney coach John Longmire believes a shorter season and shorter games would have a wide range of benefits for the AFL and its players. Under the current broadcast rights agreement until the end of 2022, the 18 teams will play 22 games in a home and away season, with four 20-minute (plus time on) quarters for every match.
But asked on SEN Breakfast if there was one thing he could add to the game what it'd be, Longmire said: “I'd shorten the season and shorten the games. So I actually wouldn’t add to it, I’d take it away – and I think that way you get more quality, you get your better players playing for longer and playing in more games during the season.”
