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Better than what the Lions blokes have served up for five years
AFLW 2018 - Round 1 - Melbourne v GWS - Sat, Feb 3rd, 5.05pm, Casey Fields
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Absurd thing to say, Leigh played in the men’s comp. What a silly comparison.
Fantastic game. Outstanding leadership from Daisy Pearce when it mattered. Good signs for GWS.
I’d say she is as far as skills/reading the play go. Only marginally ahead mind you
Phillips’ athleticism puts her ahead on the whole, and my tip for the league medal
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Giants will do damage based on that, they were excellent.
Better than what the Lions blokes have served up for five years
These kinds of comments do nothing for the AFLW.
They are absurd.
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An hour shorter than an AFL match.
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More impressed by GWS tbh. Good effort.
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Game from an entertainment perspective was pretty decent after half time. If more AFLW games were like that second half, then there may be more people watching it. Set up a pretty good lead for this season.
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Outstanding game of AFLW footy. I'd watch that any day.
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Size of the ball kind of makes it hard in that regard.
It is more obvious you a total clown mate.
I'm talking about AFL, not soccer.
Nobody will get around the women if people go around suggesting they play better than the men. It'll make it a mockery and a laughing stock if the AFLW fan base comes up with such tripe.
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It always astonishes me how many people don't understand the scores in the context of the relative game times of the women's and men's game. Women's quarters go for 15 minutes with time-on only in the last two minutes of each quarter. At absolute most quarters go for 16 minutes, so at most a game will run for 64 minutes. Most would tally around 62 though.
In comparison men's quarters are 20 with full time-on. Most men's quarters are somewhere between 26 and 32 minutes. I'm not sure what the average is, but I would guess around 28. That's almost double the length of a women's game.
If you extrapolate the scores from this game to match the time in the men's then the score would be approximately Melbourne 90 to GWS 78. In other words, scores that aren't uncommon at all in the men's game.
That's not a perfect analysis, but you get the point.
Don't know why they'd use full sized balls. The Gaelic women's league have used smaller balls for years now and it makes a massive difference to the level of play they can attain.
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Agree but the logic for Melbourne is that they only missed out on the Grand Final on percentage last year.
Think it's pretty hard to gauge the teams when we only have one season to go off and the draft is going to improve sides drastically every season.
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Except teams like Melbourne 2013 simply aren't entertaining whereas tonight definitely was.
He never said the women were playing better than men. Read the comment properly.
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It's just reasonable to alter the rules to improve the spectacle of the sport. Tennis gives women shorter games and longer breaks.
Ground size is tough to alter but ball size should be obvious.
The trouble suggesting longer games would address scoring issues is that fitness wise a lot of players struggle now with the duration of the game at 15 minutes a quarter.
Extending game length is just as likely to lead to greater skill errors and dropping in standard of play as it is to leading to more scoring.
Yes he did. He's saying the women served up better than the men. That's obviously not true.
But 2013 Melbourne was still serving up a better standard of football. Simply their opposition were just far superior too them.
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Awesome win for Melbourne there. In a funny way the few dodgy free kicks paid against them late in the match ended up benefiting them, stung them into action a bit as they couldn't play negative protect-a-lead football. Very good signs for GWS too--especially in the forward line, but also better leadership across the board made a difference and I noticed their captain Farrugia today more than all of last season.
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