Carlton Supporters Club

The main reason for a coach turn over is that a lack of success puts pressure on the admin/board through things like sponsors,  member and supporter expectations.
The lack of success builds up over the years.
It's even more intense when that extended period of 'failure' follows a bit of a golden era.

The factor in an AFLW coach's favour is that the expectations and subsequent pressure just aren't there yet.
It's the 'history' factor I mentioned earlier.
The majority of us 'don't care' enough...yet.
The pressure isn't there for change...They have the luxury of letting it play out a little longer.

That would be true of the mens, but in the womens game people are just happy seeing a womens competition, and it would take a significant coach to make someone like Harf get fired.

If Brendan Bolton wanted to coach the women, that might get the requisite attention.

That was the point I was making.
There are different pressures and expectations for coaches and teams for the AFL and AFLW comps.
Coaches in the AFLW wont feel the (sometimes) extreme judgements an AFL coach faces.
It may come eventually, but while teams and lists remain so unsettled as the competition grows, most AFLW coaches can go about the job of team building without too many concerns.

I think that’s right Lods, but there have been some rapid departures, like Damien Keeping. 

I reckon there will be pressure on the AFLW to appoint female coaches before too much longer.  I don’t know whether there have been many female (or non-binary) participants in the level 4 program but that will happen.  Perhaps that will lead to a distinctive brand of footy 🤔

I see Darcy Vescio is calling for some changes to take the AFLW to the next level, some of it is common sense and many of us have already stated that playing the girls game in summer is not conducive to a high quality competition.

Now I believe I am a relative AFLW booster compared to some, but I have to take exception to one assertion Vescio makes, and that is the AFLW needs to become paid full-time professionals to get better. It's a slap in the face for the vast majority of high quality male amateur competitions all over the country, competitions full of combatants that aren't paid or trained like the AFLW but easily exceed AFLW in terms of skill, consistency, tactics, implementation and output.

Please do not use a "we need more money" argument as an excuse for ordinary output or delayed progress, because there is nothing stopping female amateur competitions becoming as skilled and consistent as the men's competitions other than participation, time and commitment. The vast bulk of men or boys playing football do it for free!

I feel Darcy's call really is putting the cart before the horse, it is the artisan gets paid by the quality of the product not the apprentice!

re the highlighted part, with more money a lot of that will actually go away, and with the lack of money, it actually exacerbates that issue.

99.999% of men / boys that play footy have no expectation that they will play AFL, it's not part of reality or a motivation.

Women need amateur football standards to rise dramatically and quickly.
 

99.999% of  boys that play footy don't make it to the elite level, so their inclusion in any such debate is irrelevant.

I thought Dalton left because her dream was to play for Australian Rugby in the Olympics, that is not for money!

Dream? She'd already won a gold medal.
She wanted another one.
She would've been getting more money from that than playing AFL.
What did gold medal winners get? 20k? That was probably 2 seasons of AFLW money for her that she could get as a bonus....and on top of whatever payments rugby (and sponsorship) was paying her.
It wasn't FOR money, but it included MORE money.