Isn't he pretty frequently dropped from the side though?Cam McCarthy is a good player, but is forced to play out of position due to continuous injuries to key forwards as well as lack of key forwards over the past 3 years.
Not unpopular amongst Fremantle fans but most non-fans look at him and go "Hurr hurr pr0n state pedo, lazy and fat amirite hurt durr"
you just proved my unpopular opinion
Cam McCarthy is a good player, but is forced to play out of position due to continuous injuries to key forwards as well as lack of key forwards over the past 3 years.
Not unpopular amongst Fremantle fans but most non-fans look at him and go "Hurr hurr pr0n state pedo, lazy and fat amirite hurt durr
Happy for people to carry that opinion into 2020 with the addition to Kelly (although I‘m still not as convinced as others) but West Coast were definitely not the second best side of 2019 like people seemed to think all season. Colloquially “unlucky to miss top four”, West Coast’s record against top four teams was terrible and the only truly comprehensive four quarter efforts put together in the back half of the season leading toward finals were against Fremantle, North Melbourne at home and an out of form Bulldogs at home. The bulk majority seemed to absolutely love their round 22 effort against Richmond at the MCG which in my opinion was the complete opposite of a side that deserved to be considered one of the best in the league, they should have won that.
Pretty much correct. We fumbled and farted through games. Hardly played 4 qtrs.
And why is that? Because women’s football development was neglected for over a hundred years. AFLW will change that.
AFLW in and of itself won’t change that. It won’t change until playing junior footy is as typical for girls as it is for boys (obviously having a pro league makes that lite likely). There will be an absolutely tiny talent pool for AFLW to draw upon for at least 100 years
Obviously to enforce the positional restrictions the players would wear collars around their necks and their heads would explode if they left their zone, like in the excellent 1980s documentaries ‘The Running Man’ and ‘Wedlock’The AFL needs more rule changes not less. To return to more one on one contests - in the air and on the ground - footy should introduce netball-like positional restrictions. There should be 3 deep fwds/backs who can’t leave their 50, 3 HFs/HBs who can leave their 50 but can’t enter the other 50, and 6 mids who can go anywhere. That way there would never be more than 12 players from each team in either 50 and in the middle of the ground. 3-3-3 rule on steroids
Addamania9 I thought it was for unpopular opinions. Judging by your immature reply I‘m guessing it’s served its purpose.
You haven't been paying attention then. Vic has been through a period where female playing numbers doubled every couple of years. It's not increasing exponentially like that now of course, otherwise we would have arrived at a point where statistically, everybody on the planet would have been a footy playing Vic women.
Look around, mate. You're no saint for sharing your anti-AFLW opinion. It's everywhere.
Depends on what we're measuring. From my quick search, it looks like currently girls make up about 27% of all junior participants, which might sound like a lot, but I think that figure is counted per head, so girls who try it for one year are counted the same as girls (or boys) who play for 6 years. I'd be keen to know what percentage girls make up of the sum of all juniors who play footy for, say, 6 years continuously. I'm guessing it's a much, much lower percentage. The talent pool will remain small until there is a large group of girls playing continuously in a fairly dedicated fashion from the ages of around 10-17, and I don't think that will happen in 10 years, or 50 years.
2 issues.
Issue 1: I get what you’re saying but it could take a lot more than a couple of years to reach that drop off. For eg we could, over a couple of decades, reach a point where every schoolgirl in Australia played footy for at least one year, but if 95% of them play for only one year, then we would have growing participation numbers for many years without much growth in quality.
