AFL Women's

Like many Australians I've been enjoying watching the FIFA Women's world cup recently on TV.

But it got me thinking, Australians clearly like to support women's sport. This World Cup has been breaking records for tickets sold and attendance, there's been sold out or near sold out stadiums of 80,000. People are talking about the games and the Matildas everywhere I go. Many of these players are basically household names.

Then there's other events, like the T20 Womens ICC world Cup which also broke records for attendance for female sport.

And yet... no one seems interested in AFLW. I've personally been to about 5 AFLW games and I always had a good time but the stadium felt like a zombie wasteland. It was just so empty. Even when the tickets were free entry there was never more than a small handful of people in the crowd.

Why is this? Too new of a sport? Not enough support/marketing by the AFL? The players haven't been able to hone their skills yet so they aren't as interesting to watch?

What if anything do you think can be done to increase interest in this sport?

My girlfriend started playing footy this year, so I've been watching about 3 games a week. It's a great way to get your footy fix after the mens finish. The quality of games is much higher than a few years ago. More footy can only be a good thing!

Date | Sunday, 3rd December, 2023

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Date | Friday, 1st September, 2023

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Date | Saturday, 25th November, 2023

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Date | Sunday, 26th November, 2023

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Date | Sunday, 19th November, 2023

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The AFLW season has started and we once again need to address the quality of some of the comments and posts we've seen in the last two days.

Firstly, let me be absolutely clear, AFLW threads belong on this subreddit, as does anything else relating to Australian rules football.

If you are not interested in the content, do not wish to view or discuss women's football, or have no interest in news about women's football, that is your prerogative. The threads discussing those things are not the place for you then. There is no need for you to make derogatory and demeaning comments. There is also no need for posts on how you think women's football should be, which turn out to be digs at women's sport. You can simply hide AFLW posts or ignore them, as you can with all posts in Reddit.

We will quite happily delete comments, ban and otherwise discipline users who continue to behave in a manner that breaks . If you want to know what type of behaviour breaks Rule 1.1 in this instance I point you to our preamble which states, " is a positive and friendly place for insightful and interesting discussion and banter in good spirit." If you comment doesn't live up to that sentence, I advise you not to post it.

Future .self posts about how the AFLW could be improved will be treated with strict scrutiny and the bar for removal will be low.

Please do not engage with trolls and users who act in bad faith. Report the comment and/or send a modmail. No one ever changed their mind because they lost an internet fight.

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^{Special thanks to the GWS social media team who's tone and phrases I used for this} ^^post.

Edit: has a method to filter AFLW posts on computer, on old Reddit, using filter .

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1. Western Bulldogs: Kristie-Lee Weston-Turner [Round 1]

2. West Coast: Jessica Rentsch

3. GWS: Kaitlyn Srhoj

4. Western Bulldogs: Brooke Barwick

5. Melbourne: Alyssia Pisano

6. Western Bulldogs: Elaine Grigg

7. Carlton: Lila Keck

8. Collingwood: Georgia Clark

9. Collingwood: Lucille Cronin

10. St Kilda: Kiera Whiley

11. Western Bulldogs: Cleo Buttifant

12. Melbourne: Ryleigh Wotherspoon

13. Richmond: Isabel Bacon

14. West Coast: Kayley Kavanagh

15. Brisbane [Matched bid by Sydney]: Evie Long

16. Sydney: Sarah Grunden

17. Hawthorn: Mikayla Williamson

18. Geelong: Chantal Mason

19. Port: Piper Window

20. Essendon: Emily Gough

21. Brisbane: Sophie Peters

22. Adelaide: Brooke Boileau [Round 2]

23. Geelong [Matched Dees bid]: Bryde O'Rourke

24. Dees: Jacinta Hos

25. Port: Alissa Brook

26. North: Ella Slocombe

27. Brisbane: Indiana Williams.

28. Adelaide: Tamara Henry

29. Melbourne [match North bid]: Jemma Rigoni

30. North Melbourne: Georgia Stubs

31. Carlton: Meg Robertson

32. Collingwood: Amber Schutte

33. Sydney: Lara Hausegger

34. Adelaide: Lily Tarlinton.

35. Brisbane: Rania Crozier

36. Gold Coast: Keely Fullerton

37. Brisbane: Jacinta Baldwick

38. Essendon: Chloe Adams

39. West Coast: Georgie Cleaver

40. GWS: Indigo Linde

41. Geelong: PASS [Round 3]

42. West Coast: Matilda Sergeant

43. Richmond: Mackenzie Ford

44. Gold Coast: Taya Oliver

45. Hawthorn: Sophie Butterworth

46. North: Lucy Burke.

47. St. Kilda: Charlotte Simpson

48. Western Bulldogs: Jorja Borg

49. Fremantle: Holly Ifould

50. Gold Coast: Kiara Bischa

51. Gold Coast: Sienna McMullen

52. Gold Coast: Annabel Kievit

53. GWS: PASS

54. Fremantle: Airlie Runnalls

55. Melbourne: Delany Madigan

56. North: PASS

57. Melbourne: PASS

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Date | Saturday, 11th November, 2023

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Date | Sunday, 27th November, 2022

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SPRINGFIELD, SPRINGFIELD, IT'S A HELL OF A TOWN

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Amidst all the conservative snowflakes crying that people kick football bad, how could the AFLW actually improve?

I think the first change would be making players professionally paid. This would open the door for a longer season and longer game duration. Importantly it’d be a huge step to make the draft non-state based (I believe it still is state based, someone fill me in)

Also, I understand there is still quite a bit of inequalities with training facilities, including a team during mid-season having to make way for their men’s teams’ pre-season. That’s unacceptable and steps should be taken so it doesn’t happen again.

Would like suggestions in good faith, thanks

Edit: for what it’s worth I’m a fan of the league

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Date | Saturday, 27th August, 2022

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Date | Saturday, 18th November, 2023

Time | 7:15pm ACDT

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I can't find the thread if there is one, so here you go.