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I think match day openers / double hearders makes sense, but I suspect it doesn't suit the AFL's political agenda, they seem to be deliberately trying to make AFLW compete head to head for resources with other sports. Using AFLW as a political tool to freeze out other sports when AFL is out of season!

The NRL play the NRLW in parallel and it works fine.

You could start the AFLW season from the bye weekend after the H&A fixture.

Showcases the competition on a dead weekend before the finals, then gives fans something to watch during the finals if their team isn't playing in AFL finals.  Effectively, finding five weekends of crossover...then AFLW continues through Spring until Xmas.

Then sometime in the future have their standalone games.

Daisy Pearce on radio this morning pretty much blamed one entire team (without naming them) for the vote not getting up.

Well, she does work for CheatsTV 

I'd hate to be on the inside of this debate, when it comes to bitterness, hatred and prejudice the men have nothing on the girls, and in my opinion this leaves a disaster just waiting to happen.

What they need is for some "Bastard Misogynist" to step forward and offer them a reason to unite, or else they may well rip each other apart!

Sorry LP, thats BS.

I think what the girls are asking for is more than fair.

Sorry LP, thats BS.

I think what the girls are asking for is more than fair.

They are uprooting their lives to play AFLW.....and they do not even have any dates, or length of season in front of them.

In the first year, the girls had to pay for their own boots.
AFLW exceeded all expectations, including the players and the AFL.
Now the AFL has started fasttracking the whole thing by introducing 6 new teams in 2 years and have forgotten to structure a competition that can make it all work.

Yes, the girls are kicking up a fuss....and so they should.
What do the men have to complain about? A minimum salary of 100k a year, plus perks for the worst player on the list? Meanwhile, thats more than all the girls on a list combined.
The men have certainty for years.
The girls don't even know when their next game is......or even what month it is in.

What I posted has nothing to do with their claims.

It's about the internal doings exposed by Pearce on radio yesterday, they are basically pointing knives at each other already, there is an obvious cliqué or maybe more than one, and they are nowhere near united like the AFL men. The girls have fired up the whisper drive and have their rumor engine running ready to point the blame!

You have issue with that because they are not united and as a result there is fighting amongst themselves.

Sorry but thats the same as what i said before.

The ring leaders inside the four clubs were Carlton’s Darcy Vescio, Geelong’s Meg McDonald, GWS’ Pepa Randall and St Kilda’s Catherine Phillips.


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In a meeting with the AFL recently, a small section of the ‘NO VOTERS’ voiced their displeasure around several non-financial, non-communication issues.

They told league heavyweights they could not understand why the AFLW competition did not receive the same umpires as the men’s competition. The standard of umpiring is understood to have frustrated coaches and some players last season.

‘NO VOTERS’ also expressed their disappointment with the AFL’s change rooms at certain grounds. Although most facilities are acceptable, a small section of the players want to have access to the same spacious rooms as the men when available.

There is also an undercurrent of agitation towards AFLPA president Patrick Dangerfield and leading women’s player Daisy Pearce. Some players feel let down by them and have spoken out among each other in private about the lack of support they feel they have received from key figures in the game.

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The ‘NO’ voters are adamant the season should see every team play each other once by the end of the next CBA. But the AFL and its two broadcasters — Fox Footy and Channel 7 — have resisted advances to accelerate the competition’s growth.

Daisy's a hypocrite.

Bet you she's paid better than average for all her work in footy.