AFLM?

[binman 42,591]

Loving it

[TeamPlayedFine39 8,476]

It appears that the click bait has had the desired effect on the perpetually threatened.

He was asked.

Said he was open to the idea.

The end.

 

Wasnt his idea, didn’t say it was being considered by the afl, didn’t say it would happen.  
 

It’s a scary world where women are allowed to do stuff... many here are jumping at shadows.

[dworship 3,342]

22 minutes ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

It appears that the click bait has had the desired effect on the perpetually threatened.

He was asked.

Said he was open to the idea.

The end.

 

Wasnt his idea, didn’t say it was being considered by the afl, didn’t say it would happen.  
 

It’s a scary world where women are allowed to do stuff... many here are jumping at shadows.

I got in trouble once for asking a female to remove a manhole cover and was told I needed to call it a "Person access hole cover"

[binman 42,591]

5 minutes ago, dworship said:

I got in trouble once for asking a female to remove a manhole cover and was told I needed to call it a "Person access hole cover"

You couldn't move it yourself?

[dworship 3,342]

Just now, binman said:

You couldn't move it yourself?

The Trainer/instructor can't do that.

[Caligula's cohort 1,014]

LMFAO... sure entertain the idea to be politically correct, but it will never happen. Seriously what crumbs come up with this nonsense? 

[dpositive 1,663]

1 hour ago, Ham said:

The men play AFL
The women play AFL
Call it... AFL
 

This is absolutely correct.

It is the introduction of the W which has maintained stereotyping.

We should all be encouraged to view any and all of the games free of gender bias.

i do encourage women to watch AFLW should just be encoraging all to watch AFL.

[Pates 9,658]

Literally no one would've been buying the narrative that the AFL would consider changing the mens competition name.

Interestingly here in the UK they opted to changed the name of their womens football league from the FA Women's Premier League to the Womens Super League (or WSL), I imagine it was to give a point of difference from the mens league to make them stand out. I know there's the WAFL, and I can only imagine that it was for that reason they decided to put the W on the end of AFL. But for me it would make so much for sense for it to be branded as WFL.

Anyway, nice non-news story from the papers.

[Northern Summer 292]

The AFL CEO is the biggest 'politically correct' lefty going around, so I wouldn't be surprised to see this come about under his reign

Edited February 11, 2020 by Northern Summer

[Sir Why You Little 36,954]

“Is this the right room for an arguement?”

[Cheap Seats 3,310]

Jack Watts was here

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[praha 11,227]

1 hour ago, Northern Summer said:

The AFL CEO is the biggest 'politically correct' lefty going around, so I wouldn't be surprised to see this come about under his reign

I don't think he's politically correct or a lefty. He's just the CEO of an organisation in the 21st century. Which means you have to play the woke card for a certain period of time. 

Unfortunately, in an attempt to appear "diverse", they expanded the women's league far too quickly, in turn draining the talent pool and forcing teams to recruit overweight, unfit "talent". The result is pathetic matches of almost no entertainment and embarrassing scorelines. 5 years ago you were getting good media coverage and fan interest around exhibition games, when Melbourne and the Bulldogs were slowly developing and growing the women's sport. The matches were awesome and of a surprisingly high quality. But of course the AFL spotted an opportunity, in turn morphing the women's AFL presence from a legitimate grassroots program, to a "so brave" league.

Don't you dare criticise the quality of the matches, that would be sexist! Yeah, there are a lot of pathetic man babies out there attacking the women directly, but that sexism is an unfortunate symptom of the reality: the product is [censored] awful, and people have forgotten how good it was before the league expanded into a massive league too big for an already stretched talent pool. 

Why did they do it? I don't believe the league really gives a [censored] about women's football or growth. It was a good PR opportunity, that has now become a patronising howl from AFL House, and golf claps from AFL Media, who are so desparetly trying to make your typical AFL fan care about how brave these women are. 

As they say: "Get woke, go broke"

[Pates 9,658]

4 hours ago, praha said:

I don't think he's politically correct or a lefty. He's just the CEO of an organisation in the 21st century. Which means you have to play the woke card for a certain period of time. 

Unfortunately, in an attempt to appear "diverse", they expanded the women's league far too quickly, in turn draining the talent pool and forcing teams to recruit overweight, unfit "talent". The result is pathetic matches of almost no entertainment and embarrassing scorelines. 5 years ago you were getting good media coverage and fan interest around exhibition games, when Melbourne and the Bulldogs were slowly developing and growing the women's sport. The matches were awesome and of a surprisingly high quality. But of course the AFL spotted an opportunity, in turn morphing the women's AFL presence from a legitimate grassroots program, to a "so brave" league.

Don't you dare criticise the quality of the matches, that would be sexist! Yeah, there are a lot of pathetic man babies out there attacking the women directly, but that sexism is an unfortunate symptom of the reality: the product is [censored] awful, and people have forgotten how good it was before the league expanded into a massive league too big for an already stretched talent pool. 

Why did they do it? I don't believe the league really gives a [censored] about women's football or growth. It was a good PR opportunity, that has now become a patronising howl from AFL House, and golf claps from AFL Media, who are so desparetly trying to make your typical AFL fan care about how brave these women are. 

As they say: "Get woke, go broke"

I don't disagree with much of what you've said here (though perharps would've delivered it differently ?).

I was really frustrated when the AFL annouced they were undergoing such a large expansion of the womens league when it was still a fledging competition. On the surface I suppose their argument is that it increases exposure for the womens game and will pump more interest into girls choosing AFL as a sport. In reality I feel their decision was based more on the idea of appearing as you say woke and up with the trends. They were more worried about how the league looked than the quality of the games being produced. This is also an issue with the WSL in the UK where save for the top 4-5 teams (which is actually quite good to watch) the quality of the matches can be at times quite poor.

So much better to have a strong competition for 6-8 teams, than a bloated competition with the general skills and quality of match play worse than what it was 2 years ago. And stupidly it actually opens the door to more anti-women's game trolls.

[monoccular 17,411]

WTF!!!

Why cat't these morons leave OUR game alone.

Shocking is showing signs of too many concussions from his playing days.

[Demonstone 22,284]

9 hours ago, Northern Summer said:

The AFL CEO is the biggest 'politically correct' lefty going around

The wealthy, conservative, polo loving, Liberal stalwart Gil McLachlan is a "lefty"?

[I'va Worn Smith 971]

"Politically correct and Lefties"!!!!!!!  AFL is the name of the organisation.  The players play Australian rules football.  They can call the organisation anything they want.  But don't change the name of my football club.  The simple fact is, this is entirely a beat up and the organisation will not change its name.

Wait...............  while I open another bottle of Chardonnay.  Hic.

 

[Lord Nev 13,512]

People genuinely just read the headlines these days don't they.

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[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,686]

1 hour ago, monoccular said:

WTF!!!

Why cat't these morons leave OUR game alone.

Shocking is showing signs of too many concussions from his playing days.

I understand why you say WTF, but why the exclamation marks? Women's Terrific Footy is a great name without the unnecessary punctuation.

[Dante 2,739]

Maybe the Women should create their own competition and just call it the WFL thereby freeing themselves of any male interference. They could fund it themselves and call their teams whatever they want, eventually, maybe, they could build stadiums.

 

 

[Bitter but optimistic 22,218]

Bring forward the start of the season FFS !!

[dpositive 1,663]

We can perhaps resolve this and support the AFL who can introduce gender neutral terms at all times.

Female includes Male in its structure , woman includes man in its structure.

Delete the use of the term male and refer to Daisy Peace displaying a don't argue similar to female colleague Dustin Martin.

Cant see any problem there.

[chook fowler 19,444]

AFLFU?

[old dee 23,750]

1 minute ago, chook fowler said:

AFLFU?

Most weeks chook.

[Kent 2,905]

13 hours ago, binman said:

You couldn't move it yourself?

She( Is that allowed ) was probably stronger of the two??

[Mazer Rackham 14,971]

15 hours ago, Hot as Hell said:

If the AFL must expend time, money or effort how about seriously funding regional football or junior football. Not just for the elite, but for the betterment of the sport and its grass roots.

Strange concept you've come up with there. Grass roots? Have you ever been taken to lunch by Tony's Plumbing Services? It's a parma and chips and a couple of schooners of craft beer. And it's always out in the sticks somewhere and you get dust all over your shoes. Some of these places aren't even in the metro region!

Now Coca Cola ... there's a company a man can do business with. Have you seen the size of their entertainment allowances? It's almost the size of my bonus for increasing TV ratings. Eye watering stuff.