Women's Footy AFLW 2017 - Round 1 Preview

[The_Wookie]

The brand new AFL Womens Competition will open this Friday. Here's whose playing where and all the details you need.

Note this week there are no curtain raisers, so all match entry is free. Also note that as this is the opening round, both Friday and Saturday nights will be shown on Seven as well as Fox. (for the rest of the Season its only Saturday night games which are broadcast on 7).

At this stage Im not certain watchafl.com will have matches.

The AFL official site is at www.womens.afl (although afl.com.au/womens has more information and news atm) and its twitter feed is at https://twitter.com/aflwomens



Friday, February 3rd

• Match: Carlton v Collingwood
• Venue: Ikon Park, Melbourne
  
• Time: 7.45pm AEDST
• Entry: Free
• Weather: Max 27, sunny, light winds
  
• Broadcast: 7 Network Live, Foxtel Live
• Bigfooty Blues Preview thread
• Bigfooty Pies Preview thread

Saturday, February 4th

• Match: Adelaide v Greater Western Sydney
• Venue: Thebarton Oval, Adelaide
• Time: 4.35pm ACDST
• Entry: Free
• Weather: Max 30. Mostly sunny. Light winds.
  
• Broadcast: Foxtel Live

Saturday, February 4th

• Match: Western Bulldogs v Fremantle
• Venue: VU Whitten Oval, Melbourne
• Time: 7.35pm AEDST
• Entry: Free
• Weather: Max 31, Sunny. Light winds.
  
• Broadcast: Seven Network Live, Foxtel Live
• Bigfooty Freo Preview thread
• Bigfooty Bulldogs Preview thread.

Sunday, February 5th

• Match: Melbourne v Brisbane
• Venue: Casey Fields, Melbourne
• Time: 5.05pm AEDST
• Entry: Free
• Weather: Max 25. Partly cloudy. Slight (30%) chance of a shower. Light winds
  
• Broadcast: Foxtel Live.

Useful Information

• Bigfooty Summary of Everything AFL Womens
• AFL Summary of AFL Womens
  
• Girlsplayfooty Top 50 AFL Womens Players
• Trial matches - Results, highlights and discussion

Around Bigfooty

• Bigfooty Womens Football Forum
  
• Adelaide Women Discussion
  
• Brisbane Women Subforum
• Carlton Women Subforum
• Collingwood Women Subforum
• Fremantle Women Discussion
• Melbourne Women Discussion
• Western Bulldogs Women Discussion

 

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[Richoman Tigers]

Don't we have a whole board for women's footy already? Don't need it forced down our throats on here as well as from the media

 

[The_Wookie]

Don't we have a whole board for women's footy already? Don't need it forced down our throats on here as well as from the media

Tough. Your going to have to deal with it or simply ignore it.

 

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http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/the...n/news-story/fb3fb054bd31066a06e17c291df10abf

WHAT TO KEEP IN MIND

These eight teams have been conceived from scratch.

Even the Bulldogs and Melbourne, who have previously had teams and systems in place, have started from ground zero, with new coaches and a plethora of new players.

Adelaide has barely trained as a full team, with several players living in the Northern Territory.

The standard, therefore, won’t be the same as the men’s. But how could it be?

Even at junior level, the amount of money spent on boy’s footy as opposed to women’s footy has been astronomical.

What’s more, while these women aspire to be full-time athletes, they’re all either studying or working to support themselves. Football isn’t paying the bills.

HOW TO APPROACH THE SEASON

Regardless of what you think of sport or AFL, it’s darn cool that young girls now have female footballers to look up to.

Footy has been a part of Australian culture for more than 100 years.

In Victoria, it shapes the fabric of society and plays a major role in many rural communities.

In Melbourne, the MCG is perhaps the most recognisable feature of the city’s skyline.

Footy is more than just a sport. And for the first time ever, women will become a part of the narrative at a national and elite level.

It’s something to get behind.

Remember, Rome wasn’t built in a day.

 

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Mclachlan says the league is here for the long haul.


http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...h/news-story/fbd116263f0371c4391060951f5c1847

 

[DexterTan]

Don't we have a whole board for women's footy already? Don't need it forced down our throats on here as well as from the media

You don't have to swallow.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Don't we have a whole board for women's footy already? Don't need it forced down our throats on here as well as from the media

Yes, we've had women's footy forced down our throats for a few weeks out of a total of 158 years now. Will it ever stop?

 

[Richoman Tigers]

Yes, we've had women's footy forced down our throats for a few weeks out of a total of 158 years now. Will it ever stop?

Must have been making up for lost time the last 6 months

 

[Unique Name]

Must have been making up for lost time the last 6 months

So you clicked on a thread labeled 'AFLW' with a Women's footy tag. To whinge about it when you could of gone "Yeah, not for me and ignored it".

 

[LeverPuller]

New era. Hopefully will be able to get there Sunday.

Can't believe we are here. Congratulations to everyone involved. Huge wraps to Melbourne with the foresight and the vision and to the Western Bulldogs for seeing the vision and helping to bring it to the fore. Then big big wraps to the AFL for ignoring the naysayers and creating this sensational opportunity for women and young girls.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Heads up to anyone heading to Ikon Park Friday night. After the game it looks like Yarra Trams won't be running extra services along the number 19. Trams will be running at the normal 20 minute frequency.

 

[LeverPuller]

Heads up to anyone heading to Ikon Park Friday night. After the game it looks like Yarra Trams won't be running extra services along the number 19. Trams will be running at the normal 20 minute frequency.

Seriously? Idiots.

 

[Randomizor]

Any way to watch the matches overseas?

 

[Unique Name]

Any way to watch the matches overseas?

Have you tried the 7Plus app. It lets you set your location manually by inputting your postcode. That might work.

All the games will be on the AFL live app. Does the international version have a free trial?

 

[Richoman Tigers]

So you clicked on a thread labeled 'AFLW' with a Women's footy tag. To whinge about it when you could of gone "Yeah, not for me and ignored it".

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Coz it had nothing to do with it being the first stickies topic on the main forum a couple of slots below an entire subforum dedicated to the topic

 

[*Crash*]

Any way to watch the matches overseas?

AFL's advice to me today is that the games can be streamed live from the AFL' s website. Alternatively through WatchAFL (watchafl.afl.com.au/) this page is currently not working by the way. There is a new WatchAFL Global Pass app in the app store that is FoxSports branded. But this has not yet been announced or released. That app which is for streaming outside Australia and NZ does have the AFLW matches listed in their schedule (screenshot below) so hopefully it will all be working come Friday.

 

[Righteo]

Don't we have a whole board for women's footy already? Don't need it forced down our throats on here as well as from the media

1 thread= forced down our throats? Someone is a sensitive petal.

"Hey guys, just went out of my way to post in this thread to tell you how little I care. Thought you'd be interested to know"

 

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