Re: Grand Final
Reply #5 –
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.