Women's Footy 2020 AFLW Season - the return of the Lionesses

[thylacine60]

With Jacinda Barclay's sad passing, learning about her career has made me reflect on how wonderous the AFLW is. Jacinda went off to play in the then-named Lingerie Football League to get what she needed from a full-contact, paid semi-professional or professional sport less than 10 years ago.
While overdue in many ways, the timing did manage to avoid that horrible pressure to over sexualise it, for which many of us are greatful I am sure. While I am sure this had nothing to do with Jacinda's demons, it does shine a light on how mature the AFL has been, and despite the trolls and naysayers the AFLW is the better for these previous missteps.
RIP Jacinda

Wonderfully thoughtful words.

 

[thylacine60]

And as with so many of these things, none of her friends saw it coming (one of my friends is a friend of hers from back in her baseball days and was still in contact with her). They are all in complete shock and even with the benefit of hindsight it still makes no sense to them.

Countless people in shock at this and of course all of the other losses similar to it.