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This is not an unusual phenomenon in sports.

This idea that the girls are only like this is the real issue regarding how we treat men and women.

I have not had enough to do with girls in team sport outside of footy or cricket to know the global answer to that question. I think it may be different for team events that are built on individual efforts like swimming, tennis or golf, etc., etc.. Even cricket seemed to suffer it less, but it's a much smaller tighter squad and the on field comes down to bat versus ball.

But I can say I've never seen anything in male footy teams like what goes on around and about the female footy teams, and changing a pronoun or two in the female squad makes bugger all difference.

In the men you get individual blokes that outright hate each other off the pitch for a variety of reasons, but it rarely persists and I've never seen it form a clique or seen blokes made a persona non grata like you find in a girls team. Of course you can see certain trouble players kicked out of any squad, like Carey at Norp, but this is not what we are talking about.

Which is why I chose the term clique.

I'd be really suprised if cliques weren't a major issue for our men's side in the last twenty years.

I'd say they also played a part in the demise of a coach or two.

And that may go a long way to explaining our lack of success.

re cliques, happens in the mens game too. Think about the story about why Malthouse chose Maxwell as the captain of Collingwood - to unite the cliques.

Cliques are everywhere.  Jack Martin is straight back into the team every time for a reason.  Fisher, Martin and Cripps have a little tight nit group going on, and Id wager they play more than not.

Not sure fans disagreeing with MC decisions is hard evidence of a clique!

Not sure fans disagreeing with MC decisions is hard evidence of a clique!

When Lods asked me if I’d take on a moderator role, he didn’t mention that it was very like trying to herd cats 🙄

How does a thread about the review of our AFLW program take in Jack Martin’s contract and imaginary cliques going back to the days of the three amigos? 🤔

We have one board for AFLW topics.  Let’s try to limit the discussion here to women’s footy … or should that be non-male footy?

I hope I haven’t sent this thread off on another tangent 🙂

When Lods asked me if I’d take on a moderator role, he didn’t mention that it was very like trying to herd cats 🙄

How does a thread about the review of our AFLW program take in Jack Martin’s contract and imaginary cliques going back to the days of the three amigos? 🤔

We have one board for AFLW topics.  Let’s try to limit the discussion here to women’s footy … or should that be non-male footy?

I hope I haven’t sent this thread off on another tangent 🙂

Am I from a different planet or something? Or has the world gone politically correctly stupid?

Obviously not, obviously so!

You've read too much into the commentary, and then built an argument that is somehow trying to justify one wrong with another!