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I'm sorry, I know she didn't really do much, and that Darebin were flogged, but this is not right!

Mouncey runs on!


Against NT Thunder KPD/CHB Tayla Thorn.

I want players that size in our AFL team!

Hannah didn't like having to keep her testosterone down.

I don't understand this Mouncey situation.

Regardless of whether you are for or against, Mouncey and her team of lawyers or political influencers basically pursued rule changes so that Hannah could play and now the plug has been pulled on an AFLW career because of ill feelings from people on the administrative side!

Just a few weeks ago I heard some rumors from attendees at AFLW games of Mouncey being dragged by Darebin to limit game time and influence. The allegation was that Hannah was being managed to ensure that any perceived dominance during games did not cause too much of a stir. I believe managers/coaches Darebin denied this late in the season and stated Hannah being benched was just team or form related.

Well what does all this mean, I suspect if you are being managed through games because you are too dominant that makes a mockery of the competition. On the flip side, if you are regularly being benched at VFLW level due to structural or form issues you probably are not going to make the draft anyway!

Yet today the media reports that it is all about a bias, am I being too harsh by being cynical?

Just a day or so after Serena Williams tried to bully a male match official into forgiving her and her coach for cheating, Serena has continued to deny this despite the coach admitted in a live to air interview that he was coaching from the sidelines, and the subsequent fines for being coached form the sidelines, yet apparently the official is just being sexist or racist? Adam Goodes anyone? Serena has been dominant, must she now make an excuse?

I suppose this is the fate of all sports, as potential earning increase integrity exits!

I realise this is a dead issue, but the impact of this modern trend grows weekly.

Rita Panahi has some interesting thoughts on the issue;

 - Female athletes forced to accept unfair advantage

Many at the sports administrative level would have you believe it's all hunky dory behind the scenes, but that is far from the truth!

It's weak-minded administrations up against opportunism!

I am 179 cm or about 5 foot 10-11.

I saw Daisy Pearce here at the hospital last week.  She would have been lucky to be standing at my armpit.  Daisy is probably typical of most AFL w sized players, and I think in a one on one contest, I would have been carrying about 30 cm, and probably another 30 kegs on top.

Anyone who thinks Hannah doesn't have a significant advantage is kidding themselves.

She finished up runner up in the VFLW goal kickers award, and was only beaten by Vescio on the last match day of the season, and part of me thinks that her opponents let her kick a ridiculous number of goals to secure the win on the final round of the season.

Some will argue not, but thats not the point.  Think about it.

I am 179 cm or about 5 foot 10-11.

I saw Daisy Pearce here at the hospital last week.  She would have been lucky to be standing at my armpit.  Daisy is probably typical of most AFL w sized players, and I think in a one on one contest, I would have been carrying about 30 cm, and probably another 30 kegs on top.

Anyone who thinks Hannah doesn't have a significant advantage is kidding themselves.

She finished up runner up in the VFLW goal kickers award, and was only beaten by Vescio on the last match day of the season, and part of me thinks that her opponents let her kick a ridiculous number of goals to secure the win on the final round of the season.

Some will argue not, but thats not the point.  Think about it.

But is her size the critical issue, or the fact that she used to be a male ? If it's the former, what about Shane Mumford v Marc Murphy ? You can't discriminate in the men's game because someone is too big, or too strong. The fact that Daisy Pearce may be a typical size female AFL footballer and Murphy an atypically small male player is not the issue IMO.

But is her size the critical issue, or the fact that she used to be a male ?

So the biggest and strongest people who identify as female will be the more successful in the AFLW?