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That seems about right. All of Perth has 9 u18 youth girls teams.
That seems about right. All of Perth has 9 u18 youth girls teams.
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Its improved, but it's 5 years behind Vic, maybe 8 behind Qld.The junior club i am involved in according to the email i received recently will have some year 4-6 girls teams, wont be for several weeks before we see how many teams we will get though, they are asking for coaching nominations.
Pretty sure this is the first year they have done that, although i am pretty sure plenty of girls have over the years played auskick.
When my daughter played with one the Womens WAFL teams several years ago, she only got interested via footy for mums
clinic http://www.falconsfc.com.au/news/4937/footy-4-mums--free-footy-clinic-for-mums
She went down with my wife and it was being run by the West Perth girls who recruited her.
Totally different as it stands ATM.
Would you like to share your view why Qld (a RL state!) is the leader (in raw numbers -& possibly % terms) in growing regd. female numbers over the last 5 years?Its improved, but it's 5 years behind Vic, maybe 8 behind Qld.
50% Inc in community club footy nationwide. In Perth?
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Hard to sum up, but looking at schools first. I try to keep up with whats going on by following twitter accounts etc. AFLQ runs a schools footy comp, they have a twitter account for this with 6500 posts. They ran a high profile marketing campaign aimed at girls called #girlsplaytooWould you like to share your view why Qld (a RL state!) is the leader (in raw numbers -& possibly % terms) in growing regd. female numbers over the last 5 years?
Girls club compsWould you like to share your view why Qld (a RL state!) is the leader (in raw numbers -& possibly % terms) in growing regd. female numbers over the last 5 years?
Seniors.Would you like to share your view why Qld (a RL state!) is the leader (in raw numbers -& possibly % terms) in growing regd. female numbers over the last 5 years?
Thanks for such a detailed response.Seniors.
WA has tied seniors to the WAFL. This means there are just 9 clubs, and not all of them have a senior and a reserves team. This makes a max of 18 teams, and its usually more like 15. This becomes a disincentive to other potential womens teams. Country is excluded apart from Mandurah, because the WAFL is not in the country. Country teams to play footy do not have to just start a team, they have to start a whole comp, with it seems little help from the WAWFL which has its own comp to focus on. Also, how do you add a 10th metro team, if you are limited to a 9 team club model?
It has been like this basically the entire time I have watched the growth of womens footy, since 2012.
Queensland has a senior (serious) comp, the QWAFL, and a separate, more social QWAFA. Last year the QWAFL had 6 teams, but the QWAFA had 13.
So Qld had the same number of serious teams as WA, and I think 4 more in total.
Its easy to add teams, just start a new club, and joing the less tough QWAFA, if you become good, you can get promoted to the QWAFL (which a team is doing this year).
As has been asked, if junior girls footy is exploding, but the WAWFL has basically not changed much in 5 years, where are they going? It seems to be that the lopsided and serious WAWFL is killing the enjoyment for a lot, and they just leave.
Thanks for such a detailed response.
The obvious questions. Have WA (&SA) studied the details & modus operandi of Qld?
And why have they not implemented it ( inc.the "easy"bit, the Qld.digital & promotional programs, which are readily transferable)?
Queensland's success has been outstanding.
Interesting reply. Your view is not applicable to NSW (no strong, ultra traditional men's league in NSW). AF in NSW & Tas. (like Qld.) is also fully controlled & funded by the AFL, but they, apparently, have not implemented the "Qld. philosophy"-why not?No strong ultra traditional mens league to suck all the money and resources.
Wow, a female talent manager. After WA has a team in the national league. Finger on the pulse WAFC.
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WA did not have 49087 women in 2015, nor did it have 70,065 women in 2016.Talking about WA Womens participation growth - Found these figures recently.
WA Girls Auskick- 2015 -9656
" 2016 -10702
WA Total Womens -2015 -49087
" 2016 -70065
Thats a big jump in the Total Figure.
WA did not have 49087 women in 2015, nor did it have 70,065 women in 2016.
I suspect in 2016 WA had less than 800 women players in contact football. No idea how many played non-contact AFL9's -300?
Are you quoting "women"to include all females, inc. school comp players? Even then, 70,065 seems too high. ( One-off carnival days can have huge numbers, all codes quote these -but these figures are generally meaningless)
Looks like all teams in the WAWFL will be fielding 1sts, 2nds and Youth girls.
Fixture also bands teams into top, bottom and middle 3, with each band playing other teams in that band more often., so the teams new to the first division (in the bottom band) only play the top established teams once. A good move in my opinion, lets them get a chance to get established without facing weekly floggings.
http://www.wawfl.com.au/news/11910/2017-set-to-be-highlight-season
This will continue what is one of the strengths of WA women's footy, despite its flaws.I know a lot of girls left clubs to join the Coastal Titans years ago, when i knew a little bit more about it than what i do now, one of the reasons why West Perth just fielded one side last year and in the reserves, good to see all the clubs fielding 3 teams, there was a huge disparity between the top and bottom clubs.