You know Jazza, for a hopeless misogynist, the plan you laid out for expanding women's footy just now is quite comprehensive and rather brilliant. Kudos to you, sir.

Nasher, I know, and I figured you weren't kidding last time.

To be honest, it's not swearing that I think destroys forums like this. It's the small group of usual suspects who steamroll every single thread with the same droll, disingenuous drivel which interests no-one but themselves. Every. Single. Thread. It frustrates me no end, because there's info on these pages you can't find anywhere else, but the time it takes to wade through the c-r-a-p makes it difficult to enjoy, sometimes.

I'm certainly not putting up my hand. I'm actually the administrator of a popular special interest forum of my own, so I'm intimately aware of how challenging it can be. (My forum has a very similar crew of steamrollers too, but as I make a profit from it, I'm never shy to put them in their place when the need arises).

You know Jazza, for a hopeless misogynist, the plan you laid out for expanding women's footy just now is quite comprehensive and rather brilliant. Kudos to you, sir.

Thanks for saying that.

Most people might love footy and can tell us everything about the dees and blah blah blah.But when it comes to administration and structures of the game,looking at most posters on DL a lot of them have no idea of the workings of a league or the organisation of that league.

South African cricket is still coming to terms with set-up,academies,and school level cricket structures and they still havent got it right after 22 years of renewing each broken down structure run by people not thinking clearly,but thinking racially.

Maybe i was fishing with the sexist bit and quite enjoyed upsetting a few posters,But my main point still remains that its miles away from fruition having women at the top in footy.Until major investment by the AFL the system wont produce anybody of note.

What is interesting is in petas interview she said working with the 18yo recruits with development would probably be her job.

And the truth is thats about the limit ATM because young recruits will be to scared and raw to NOT listen to a person thats their first developing medium at the club,ive no doubt teaching backline structures will be successful for her with the young blokes as its going to be a rote lesson,more than a developing your own ideas appointment.i will stick to my sexist comment though,at the end of the day the afl will brag all about a female appointment and not generate any betterment of the female football leagues trying to establish themselves.

Hope you enjoy good debate as others like to be coffee sipping political do gooders and cant see the forest for the trees.