I know I would've liked at least a wrap-up of the matches updated on the website throughout the day. But before today there hasn't been anything (other than some stuff I alluded to earlier) that's got me thinking "gee, why isn't the league doing x y and z differently, it would really make a much-needed difference".
This is a bang-on statement, and the problem with the AFL going forward. There is very little support. You have to really search for an AFLW promotion on social media, but you can find plenty for the AFLX. There was no single announcement of squads at all - even at the WB v Coll game in Ballarat yesterday, in attendance, there was no team list on the scoreboard, nothing. I was googling aflw player lists to figure out the names of Collingwood's revamped midfield. Brooke Lochland went down with a nasty injury and if you weren't following the right people on Twitter or in attendance, you'd be none the wiser. Insane!
(2) IMO, only c. 40- 50% of adult females (who are over 65 kgs), who have played AF a minimum of 5 years, can currently kick 40 mts+. For those female adults who have played less than 5 years (including AFLW new draftees), the vast majority can't kick 40 mtrs+.
Every team has multiple players I've seen kick it 50m. I could cut together a video of all the 45m+ goals at AFLW level and it would be very time consuming. However there will always be a bell curve, just like how male players kicking it 60m+ is rare.
(1) What are the names of AFLW players who have kicked a goal in the AFLW on, or outside, 50 mtrs? How many such goals for each?
More than one? The number of different players who take kick-ins would be another starting point, generally all can cover 50 metres when they hit it right.
Remember my claim was about 45m+ goals, and I can support that because it just so happens I actually did cut a video several months ago and uploaded it to youtube, though it was blocked shortly thereafter. Here is a list of most of the goals featured, which I used as a reference at the time (but added the last column today):
More than one? The number of different players who take kick-ins would be another starting point, generally all can cover 50 metres when they hit it right.
Remember my claim was about 45m+ goals, and I can support that because it just so happens I actually did cut a video several months ago and uploaded it to youtube, though it was blocked shortly thereafter. Here is a list of most of the goals featured, which I used as a reference at the time (but added the last column today):
Whoever is supposedly the longest kicker, there are at least that^ many examples of players in the same ballpark.
EDIT: Also worth mentioning Chloe Scheer kicked one from about 45m on the weekend too.
This is a difficult and not all together relevant question. I would have said the difference between male and female kickers, all else being equal, is in the 10m range. So a 50+ m kick would be rare.
This is an excellent list.
Assistance is one thing, but the wind was doing just about the bulk of the work that night at Whitten Oval. Then again, who knows how many kicks didn't get the journey because the wind was blowing the wrong way!
Here is the vision which just came out this morning:
Can't think of one (Nathan Bock was always getting rubbed out for various things around that 2011 period, but he did play in the Suns' inaugural game). Might have broken her own record, given she was suspended for a front-on bump four minutes into Melbourne's first match!
