Teen Wolf
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It won't take place inside the 50m arcs, from this upcoming season onwards. It'll still be done on the wings.AFLW really needs to get rid of the boundary ump throwing the ball 10 meters in from the boundary line.
Makes it look like little league rather than a professional comp.
Regardless, different rules for women's football were a thing before the AFL got involved, which seems to be something a lot of people (including Caroline Wilson) don't realise.
They can easily get it to 10, 20 or even 30 goals a side by changing the field dimensions. Won't make it a better product, just a ridiculous flow-free stop-start game. Smaller ground equals more congestion.Biggest issue is whether you like it or not to put it bluntly people watch sport for entertainment.
Who wants to watch an AFLW game with let’s say 6-8 goals at most and that’s at absolute best. Been saying it for 2 years, reduce the size of the field, reduce the players (take two mids out both sides). Get to a stage where 10+ goals a side is the bare minimum.
Then let’s compare to the Matilda’s who score goals and play attractive exciting football (soccer). They also have elite players in their side playing overseas and are well known not just Kerr. Without looking it up can anyone name more than 4-5 AFLW players? I’m struggling to name that many. There’s the issue.
Sooner or later, people making the "just take two players out of both sides" suggestion will realise the league has already done that. Longer games and less ugly tactics would be far more effective (and at least one of those things will be partially implemented, with an ~8 minute increase coming in this season).