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I find many of the reactions to our womens' team on here concerning. I cannot think of a better example as to why so many of our women find us blokes insensitive, boorish and mysoginist. I had hoped we were better than that but clearly many of us have no idea. 

All I can say is go girls, and the sooner you deliver the red and blue a premiership the better. I for one will be shouting from the rooftops barracking you on. The MFC have distinguished themselves in promoting this, and all power to them. 

I am really proud of the Club for having such vision in this, in spite of the chauvanisti attitudes of many supporters as has been clearly shown on this thread. 

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First and foremost  - Please place Daisy on the Demonland Banner. (this has been said before elsewhere I just support it STRONGLY)

I also think having a top tier female competition helps protect the sport from the ever present danger of soccer for the hearts and minds of Australians. It also changes attitudes to women for the better, and makes society more equal and as a father of a daughter I couldn't be happier about it. Super proud of the club for getting the big picture. Also pleased with the overwhelmingly positive response on Demonland.

Also for those that don't get it, this is not a PC thing, Men and Women are different (thankfully), but it is beyond ridiculous (i.e. patronising) to tell women they can or can't play/watch/love AFL. It is up to women, there is obviously an appetite for a top tier competition, no-one is holding a gun to anyones head, to say play / watch female footy. If you want secret mens business go become a mason, footy is a community sport.

 

 

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"The most coveted footballer in the AFL's new women's league, Daisy Pearce, has threatened to retire if she can't play for her beloved Melbourne Football Club.

As the AFL instructed eight handpicked foundation clubs on Wednesday that further signings are strictly forbidden while it selects marquee players and sets their destinations in the national competition, Pearce dictated her own non-negotiable terms.

If the AFL sought to pair Pearce with another club, she said: "I'd really have to weigh up whether I played."

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl-2016-top-female-star-threatens-to-hang-up-boots-20160615-gpjv26.html 

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1 minute ago, M_9 said:

"The most coveted footballer in the AFL's new women's league, Daisy Pearce, has threatened to retire if she can't play for her beloved Melbourne Football Club.

As the AFL instructed eight handpicked foundation clubs on Wednesday that further signings are strictly forbidden while it selects marquee players and sets their destinations in the national competition, Pearce dictated her own non-negotiable terms.

If the AFL sought to pair Pearce with another club, she said: "I'd really have to weigh up whether I played."

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl-2016-top-female-star-threatens-to-hang-up-boots-20160615-gpjv26.html 

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love her, going to tweet on her page now

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6 minutes ago, bandicoot said:

Which female sport do people actually watch on mass? 

Who cares, let's try out this one before deciding "i won't watch it" considering that "footy is the greatest game".

 

I only watch world cup soccer infrequently outside AFL as the other sport I like, but i don't care for the mens game enough to watch the womens too.

 

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Some of you guys need to edit out some of our classic songs to include "MEN" otherwise you're just plain lying. You don't love footy.

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Yeah that's the thing about, that's what I like about, yeah that's the thing about, the thing about mens footballl. Whoaa whoaa

 

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9 minutes ago, bandicoot said:

Which female sport do people actually watch on mass? 

People have been known to watch the tennis, fairly sure the Womens 400m final in Sydney had a GF size audience

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13 minutes ago, bandicoot said:

Which female sport do people actually watch on mass? 

 

16 minutes ago, johndemons said:

Why have people decided that they won't watch it? Just open your mind and watch a few games in the regular season before you've decided you won't watch it?

 

 

14 minutes ago, bandicoot said:

Which female sport do people actually watch on mass? 

 

I tuned into the Dees-Doggies curtain raiser womens game a few weeks ago, not expecting much.  After all it is a 'womans' sport, and that usually means dead boring.

But I couldn't turn the TV off, it was bloody awesome to watch.  I will be watching more of it when it starts up again, and Ill buy a membership for the MFC womens team for sure.

I have no doubt the league will be a huge success.

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11 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

 

 

 

I tuned into the Dees-Doggies curtain raiser womens game a few weeks ago, not expecting much.  After all it is a 'womans' sport, and that usually means dead boring.

But I couldn't turn the TV off, it was bloody awesome to watch.  I will be watching more of it when it starts up again, and Ill buy a membership for the MFC womens team for sure.

I have no doubt the league will be a huge success.

The thing we also need to realise is that a lot of the exciting aspects of (Mens) Football come from all of the backstories behind all of the players and their histories, the intricacies of jockeying for positions in the finals and a lot of other things, and then carrying over from year to year, watching the development of various lists and their strategies and patterns. Context is key. Can't just judge womens football on isolated exhibition games

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In 2 yrs time we will head off to the MCG early because the Demon women are playing the Collingwood women as a curtain raiser for the Mens game on QB weekend 

In 5 yrs we will head off to the MCG at 2 pm to see the Womens team play because the Mens team is playing in Hobart on the Sunday....

Honestly, this could be the start of something big... and we should be proud of the fact that we were there when it started, and it would not have happened if us and the Bulldogs had not 'embraced' the potential 2 yrs ago.

This will stand us in good stead. We should be proud to be one of the 'Foundation 8'. (Ignore obscure Tarntino reference).

Well done Demons!

 

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2 hours ago, CBDees said:

Sexist! Persibling up! ?

I think it will quickly become "Pick 'em up!" or perhaps "Just pick up the f#^&@ers whoever they are!" :lol::)

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Just saying

Daisy Pearce is a Demon

Bugger off you lot. . .

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7 hours ago, daisycutter said:

the jockstrap will be the joanstrap

the ball will be the ovum, so when caught holding the ovum we can all yell "OVVVVUMMMM"

What a rubbish post, DC.

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5 hours ago, Dees2014 said:

I find many of the reactions to our womens' team on here concerning. I cannot think of a better example as to why so many of our women find us blokes insensitive, boorish and mysoginist. I had hoped we were better than that but clearly many of us have no idea. 

All I can say is go girls, and the sooner you deliver the red and blue a premiership the better. I for one will be shouting from the rooftops barracking you on. The MFC have distinguished themselves in promoting this, and all power to them. 

I am really proud of the Club for having such vision in this, in spite of the chauvanisti attitudes of many supporters as has been clearly shown on this thread. 

This really is a pretty enormous overreaction. As far I can tell, all anyone did was question the economic sense of the suggestion that the female players should earn the same as the male players from day 1. 

Today truly is a great day. Girls can now grow up dreaming of playing for their favourite footy team, just like boys. I'm proud of my club for playing a key role in driving it.

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57 minutes ago, Ricky P said:

This really is a pretty enormous overreaction. As far I can tell, all anyone did was question the economic sense of the suggestion that the female players should earn the same as the male players from day 1. 

Today truly is a great day. Girls can now grow up dreaming of playing for their favourite footy team, just like boys. I'm proud of my club for playing a key role in driving it.

Whilst some of the reactions on here were bordering on the chauvinistic, I agree reading them back that overwhelming on Demonland itself they have been positive. Pity the same cannot be said on much of BigFooty and some of the individual supporter sites from Victorian clubs, their main point being that let the girls play if they want as long as it does not cost the AFL anything, and no-one will take it seriously anyway, and is therefore irrelevant to the main AFL.

Change will always be resisted by some, and it seems particularly by Blues and Pies supporters. Whether it can be put down to mysoginy or simply ignorance is a matter for the individual. It certainly looks like an irrational dismissal of things female common from certain sections of the Australian male population to me. Predictable, but sad nevertheless. 

For us males who disagree with this, we should call it out for what it is. Fortunately the AFL in general, and the original clubs in particular (Dees, Dogs) clearly don't agree and we are all better off for the fact. 

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7 hours ago, M_9 said:

"The most coveted footballer in the AFL's new women's league, Daisy Pearce, has threatened to retire if she can't play for her beloved Melbourne Football Club.

As the AFL instructed eight handpicked foundation clubs on Wednesday that further signings are strictly forbidden while it selects marquee players and sets their destinations in the national competition, Pearce dictated her own non-negotiable terms.

If the AFL sought to pair Pearce with another club, she said: "I'd really have to weigh up whether I played."

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl-2016-top-female-star-threatens-to-hang-up-boots-20160615-gpjv26.html 

(if you have a subscription)
 

 

I can see the headline now.

 

"Dees investigated for draft tampering".

 

Good for her. Its nice to have the Gary Ablett of womens football leading our mob.

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8 hours ago, Dees2014 said:

I find many of the reactions to our womens' team on here concerning. I cannot think of a better example as to why so many of our women find us blokes insensitive, boorish and mysoginist. I had hoped we were better than that but clearly many of us have no idea. 

All I can say is go girls, and the sooner you deliver the red and blue a premiership the better. I for one will be shouting from the rooftops barracking you on. The MFC have distinguished themselves in promoting this, and all power to them. 

I am really proud of the Club for having such vision in this, in spite of the chauvanisti attitudes of many supporters as has been clearly shown on this thread. 

And its a typical response from some to label anything negative as sexist. Its quite a weak argument '14.

 

Most of the comments are based around income/payments. Nothing sexist at all as far as I'm concerned. AS for mysoginistic, you have clearly fallen victim to gillards re-interpretation of the word. No evidence whatsoever, of women haters in this thread. Get a grip.

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Daisy telling the AFL that she will only be playing for us!!!

Good one Daisy.

Melbourne and the Bulldogs should be making some demands to the AFL about this comp.

Fixtures,TV rights etc should favour the foundation teams who had the vision.

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