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I will just outline the relevant facts in the OP. Then, in the following posts, I will tell you all what to think.
AFL WOMEN'S
June 2016
AFL announces inaugural 8 teams for the new women's league.
September 2017
AFL announces women's league will expand to 10 teams in 2019, and to 14 teams in 2020.
October 2019
AFLW players agree to a new three-year CBA, delivering a year-on-year increase to player payments and season length from to 2020 to 2022. An independent review of the competition was also agreed to by the AFL and the players.
June 2020
The AFL informs AFL club presidents and CEOs that the AFL Commission ratified a recommendation by the football operations department for no change to the current AFLW CBA.
December 2020
Following the Seven Network's extension for the 2023-2024 seasons announced earlier in the year, the AFL also extends broadcast rights deal with Foxtel and Telstra by two years.
May 2021
The AFL announces all 18 teams will have a team by the 2023-24 season. Clubs without a licence (Ess, Haw, PA and Syd) can also apply for early inclusion into the competition (for the 2022-23 season), which the AFL Commission will likely decide on by the end of August 2021.
PORT ADELAIDE
2017
Did not bid for a licence.
June 2018
Signalled their intent to join the league. CEO Keith Thomas said: "We already provide a pathway for young female athletes through our Women's Academy and our Women's Aboriginal AFL Academy, which is the first of its kind in Australia. Port Adelaide is now looking forward to working with the SANFL to further our capabilities in this area with the view to ultimately entering the AFLW competition at the next available opportunity."
June 2019
Began playing exhibition Showdown games against the Adelaide Crows. Port drew their players from West Adelaide, South Adelaide, Norwood and Woodville-West Torrens, per the alignment of the Next Generation Academies. Games were played as curtain-raisers to SANFL games at traditional suburban venues, including Alberton Oval which has also hosted AFL pre-season matches featuring PAFC.
Some might say that the first women's exhibition Showdown occurred in 2004, however, which of course featured Erin Phillips in teal.
October 2020
Four players who represented the club as part of its Next Generation Academy Program were selected by clubs in the 2020 AFLW National Draft: Teah Charlton, Rachelle Martin (both taken by the Adelaide Crows), Indy Tahau (Brisbane Lions) and Bella Smith (Collingwood).
Several AFLW clubs have looked to strengthen their lists by drafting other SANFLW players in recent years too, including: Hannah Priest, Tahlia Meyer (both St Kilda), Lauren Gauci, Amber Ward, Katelyn Pope (all West Coast), Georgia Bevan, Brittany Perry, Cheyenne Hammond (Gold Coast) and Lucy Bellinger (Brisbane).
ESSENDON
2016
Did not bid for a licence.
June 2017
Launched bid for a licence. Georgia Patrikios and Michaela Long featured prominently in the bid as examples of footballers who "want to play for Essendon in the AFLW".
The club's pitch included plans to grow and develop pathways in remote Northern Territory communities and wants to play the first ever AFLW game in a remote indigenous community in its first season if successful. Also stated plans to play games at Highgate Recreation Reserve in Craigieburn and possibly Windy Hill (which already hosts VFL/W fixtures).
"If successful in our submission, we believe an AFLW team will have a huge impact on our ability to connect and grow the game in the north-west corridor of Melbourne and in our next generation zones of Tiwi Islands and Maningrida," chief executive Xavier Campbell said.
July 2017
Committed to fielding a VFL Women's team in 2018.
"We are (committed to it no matter what happens with the AFLW licence) … based in the northwest corridor, with a really strong link to our heartland and a strong alignment to the Calder Cannons' youth girls academy," Essendon chief executive Xavier Campbell told the Herald Sun. "That's a significant and important step to hopefully earning an AFLW licence in 2019. (Current VFLW team) Darebin is probably a bit closer than Diamond Creek, but then you go across to the Western Spurs, so there's a big gap."
September 2017
Bid for licence rejected. The AFL said Essendon and Hawthorn put in strong bids and would work with them to improve their chances of receiving a licence in the future.
October 2018
Madison Prespakis (standout junior from the Calder Cannons) and Danielle Ponter (NT product of Long and Rioli lineage who played for Essendon in the VFLW) are drafted by Carlton and Adelaide at the 2018 AFLW National Draft. Other Essendon District Football League juniors to play in the AFLW include Monique Conti, Isabel Huntington and Nicola Stevens.
May 2020
The Bombers claim they can have an AFLW side in 2022. "Prior to the industry shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we [Essendon] wrote to Steve Hocking [AFL football operations boss] to seek clarity about the AFL's future expansion plans for the national women's competition," Essendon chief executive Xavier Campbell told The Age.
"Clearly our industry has been presented with significant challenges, but we are committed to women's football at the elite AFLW level and we are keen to get clarity on what timelines around entry into the competition look like sooner rather than later."
November 2020
Received $6.28m in funding from the Victorian State Government to complete the second stage of a $21 million development to its training centre.
Reportedly a major focus on female football both at the elite and community levels in the development, with the Bombers stating the club was "affirming its commitment to gain entry into the AFLW competition as soon as 2022."
HAWTHORN
2016
Did not bid for a licence.
May 2017
Plans to apply for a license announced. A letter to club members said: "With our feet now firmly embedded at a grass roots level and a strong talent pathway in place for young women, through our alliance with the Eastern Ranges Youth Girls Academy and Box Hill women's side, we are committed to being part of the expanded AFLW competition in 2019."
AFLW players drafted from the Eastern Ranges include Charlotte Wilson, Laura McLelland and Serena Gibbs. AFLW players drafted from the former VWFL Eastern Devils team include Jaimee Lambert, Hannah Scott, Sarah D'Arcy, Katherine Smith, Pepa Randall, Rebecca Privitelli and Sophie Casey.
July 2017
A team of Hawthorn representatives attend AFL House to put forward their case as to why the Hawks deserve a licence in the AFL women's competition.
Hawthorn's submission outlined the financial strength of the club and the power of its vast and engaged audience across three key areas: Melbourne and Victoria’s East, Tasmania and Katherine. They proposed to play home games at Ikon Park as well as in Launceston and Gippsland.
September 2017
Bid for licence rejected. Disapproving of the AFL's decision, the club released a statement: "With the largest number of female members in the league and the experience of building a VFLW team from the ground up, we demonstrated our ability to create an AFLW team that could hit the ground running."
October 2017
The AFL's first female chief executive, Tracey Gaudry, is reportedly sacked by Hawthorn after just five months in the role. The club refutes such reports, saying she stood down for personal reasons. One of Gaudry's priorities was to secure the Hawks an AFL Women's licence.
February 2018
Hawthorn President Jeff Kennett voices his concerns surrounding the amount of injuries in the women's league. "I was disappointed (initially) that the AFL didn't give us the opportunity to have a team," Kennett told SEN's Whateley. "I am quite happy that we don't, right now, have a team."
"I think we have a responsibility, those who administer the game, to do whatever we can to take on board the OH&S considerations. The discussions I have been having over last season and this season, there are a lot of people who share my concern," he said. "I am concerned about the level of injuries in this new game as it is played, and I make no apology for that whatsoever."
May 2018
Kennett calls on the AFL to hand all clubs an AFLW licence by the 2020 season. "I want to make sure that those clubs that do not have a women's team in the AFLW, are able to have a team in that competition in the year 2020," Kennett told SEN Breakfast. "At the moment there's a few of us who have not been given a year and I think that's discriminatory against certain clubs. I also think it's discriminatory against the girls that we have playing for us in the VFL(W)."
Kennett says the AFL is hesitant to expand the competition too quickly for fear of diluting the talent pool, but said that the continued growth of the sport at all levels would likely negate such an issue. "We've had very good discussions with Richard Goyder, we've also had very good discussions with Gil McLachlan about bringing [licences by 2020] about," the former Victorian Premier said.
September 2018
Hawthorn defeat Geelong in the VFLW grand final by 13 points. Chantella Perera was adjudged best on ground and would be drafted by the West Coast Eagles for the 2020 season. Other players from the premiership team drafted to AFLW clubs in the following years included Mikala Cann, Jayde Van Dyk, Rosie Dillon, Julia Crockett-Grills, Tahni Nestor, Sarah Perkins and Tamara Luke.
December 2019
Kennett, at the club AGM, once again vocalises his disappointment about Hawthorn's exclusion from the league: "I find it discriminatory that we have not been given the opportunity to be included in the AFLW thus far."
May 2020
The Hawks re-affirm their desire to join the competition as early as 2021. Chief executive Justin Reeves said entering the AFLW by 2023 at the latest was "non-negotiable".
"Hawthorn remains committed to securing a licence in the AFLW competition. We have not wavered on this in our ongoing discussions with the AFL and we continue to press the AFL for earlier entry for Hawthorn to field an AFLW team," Reeves told The Age.
"We will continue to advocate this point with the AFL, but we want it [to] be incredibly clear to our supporters and members that we remain committed to fielding a team in the AFLW and would like to do so as soon as possible. We have not taken a backwards step with regards to this."
Reeves also said Hawthorn's good financial position and their strong VFLW program would see the Hawks be a "strong, unassisted" addition to the AFLW. "This program will ensure we can hit the ground running," he said.
November 2020
Announced that all positions within its VFLW coaching structure will be held by women.
Federal Government announces a $15 million investment into the Kennedy Community Centre in Dingley Village. The Government's contribution will support Hawthorn's own investment into the project which will be in excess of $30 million.
"The AFLW and community oval and pavilion will become the home ground of Hawthorn’s future AFLW team, with the club continuing to lobby the AFL for entry into the competition in 2022. The pavilion will span three levels, with over 500 seats, community and elite changerooms, a function centre, flexible education spaces and broadcast facilities."
SYDNEY SWANS
June 2017
Did not bid for a licence, but wrote a letter to the AFL indicating their commitment to fielding an AFLW team in the future.
"We've written to the AFL to say that our facilities and a ground in the eastern suburbs won't be ready for 2019, but we do want to apply for a licence, and we're hopeful we will be in a place to do that from 2020 – we think that we can achieve our new facilities and ground in that timeframe," Sydney Swans CEO and Managing Director Andrew Ireland said.
"We're really keen to have a licence and a facility is the only thing that's stopping us. Our Youth Girls Academy will also assist as we believe the best way to build a really strong AFLW team is to take it from grassroots right through. We're hoping it all dovetails together with the Academy operating for girls and an application for an AFLW licence from 2020 onwards."
July 2017
Chief executive-in-waiting Tom Harley declares that establishing a Sydney women's AFL team stands as his No.1 priority when he takes over the reins in 2018.
April 2019
The Federal Government commits $15 million funding to the new Sydney Swans HQ and Community Centre: "The $55 million project to transform the Royal Hall of Industries at Moore Park will deliver dedicated facilities for a Sydney Swans AFLW team, a new home for the NSW Swifts netball team, as well as allowing for the expansion of the QBE Sydney Swans Academy youth girls and boy programs to more than 1,000 participants."
May 2019
Club welcomes a proposed upgrade to iconic Inner West venue Henson Park, for which Federal Member for Grayndler Anthony Albanese MP announces that an incoming Federal Labor Government would invest $5 million. The upgrade also includes construction of female change rooms, which would enable Henson Park to host matches for a future Sydney Swans AFLW team.
It's already a key training venue for the QBE Sydney Swans Academy, and it has hosted NEAFL and pre-season AFL matches. The proposed upgrade would be part of a unique ground-sharing arrangement between AFL NSW/ACT and the Newtown Jets rugby league club.
April 2020
Plans for a new $70 million headquarters put on hold because of the financial impact of the coronavirus outbreak. "The club has exited the lease agreement for now but is committed to reigniting the project post the pandemic," the Swans said in a statement. "We look forward to realising our aspiration to build the Sydney Swans HQ and Community Centre in the future."
June 2020
Resumption of the QBE Sydney Swans Academy programs marks a key stage in the development pathway of the Under 15 Youth Girls squad. "Following the Benchmark training period, a squad of approximately 40 players will form the QBE Sydney Swans Academy's Top-End Youth Girls program, which is designed for players who have the requisite skill, athleticism and desire to become elite footballers in the AFLW competition."
January 2021
Harley says a Sydney Swans AFLW team remains a priority for the club, but it's difficult to put a timeline on entry into the competition.
"When the licenses were first established a few years ago (and then the expansion that's followed since), the club haven't been in a position to field a team, primarily based around facilities," Harley said.
"It's been well documented that one of the significant causalities of COVID-19 was our plans for a new facility at the Royal Hall of Industries. We are working feverishly to get that back on board and satisfy our facility challenges – that is a primary concern for us and that's one of the key planks for our entry in the AFLW."
AFL WOMEN'S
June 2016
AFL announces inaugural 8 teams for the new women's league.
September 2017
AFL announces women's league will expand to 10 teams in 2019, and to 14 teams in 2020.
October 2019
AFLW players agree to a new three-year CBA, delivering a year-on-year increase to player payments and season length from to 2020 to 2022. An independent review of the competition was also agreed to by the AFL and the players.
June 2020
The AFL informs AFL club presidents and CEOs that the AFL Commission ratified a recommendation by the football operations department for no change to the current AFLW CBA.
December 2020
Following the Seven Network's extension for the 2023-2024 seasons announced earlier in the year, the AFL also extends broadcast rights deal with Foxtel and Telstra by two years.
May 2021
The AFL announces all 18 teams will have a team by the 2023-24 season. Clubs without a licence (Ess, Haw, PA and Syd) can also apply for early inclusion into the competition (for the 2022-23 season), which the AFL Commission will likely decide on by the end of August 2021.
PORT ADELAIDE
2017
Did not bid for a licence.
June 2018
Signalled their intent to join the league. CEO Keith Thomas said: "We already provide a pathway for young female athletes through our Women's Academy and our Women's Aboriginal AFL Academy, which is the first of its kind in Australia. Port Adelaide is now looking forward to working with the SANFL to further our capabilities in this area with the view to ultimately entering the AFLW competition at the next available opportunity."
June 2019
Began playing exhibition Showdown games against the Adelaide Crows. Port drew their players from West Adelaide, South Adelaide, Norwood and Woodville-West Torrens, per the alignment of the Next Generation Academies. Games were played as curtain-raisers to SANFL games at traditional suburban venues, including Alberton Oval which has also hosted AFL pre-season matches featuring PAFC.
Some might say that the first women's exhibition Showdown occurred in 2004, however, which of course featured Erin Phillips in teal.
October 2020
Four players who represented the club as part of its Next Generation Academy Program were selected by clubs in the 2020 AFLW National Draft: Teah Charlton, Rachelle Martin (both taken by the Adelaide Crows), Indy Tahau (Brisbane Lions) and Bella Smith (Collingwood).
Several AFLW clubs have looked to strengthen their lists by drafting other SANFLW players in recent years too, including: Hannah Priest, Tahlia Meyer (both St Kilda), Lauren Gauci, Amber Ward, Katelyn Pope (all West Coast), Georgia Bevan, Brittany Perry, Cheyenne Hammond (Gold Coast) and Lucy Bellinger (Brisbane).
ESSENDON
2016
Did not bid for a licence.
June 2017
Launched bid for a licence. Georgia Patrikios and Michaela Long featured prominently in the bid as examples of footballers who "want to play for Essendon in the AFLW".
The club's pitch included plans to grow and develop pathways in remote Northern Territory communities and wants to play the first ever AFLW game in a remote indigenous community in its first season if successful. Also stated plans to play games at Highgate Recreation Reserve in Craigieburn and possibly Windy Hill (which already hosts VFL/W fixtures).
"If successful in our submission, we believe an AFLW team will have a huge impact on our ability to connect and grow the game in the north-west corridor of Melbourne and in our next generation zones of Tiwi Islands and Maningrida," chief executive Xavier Campbell said.
July 2017
Committed to fielding a VFL Women's team in 2018.
"We are (committed to it no matter what happens with the AFLW licence) … based in the northwest corridor, with a really strong link to our heartland and a strong alignment to the Calder Cannons' youth girls academy," Essendon chief executive Xavier Campbell told the Herald Sun. "That's a significant and important step to hopefully earning an AFLW licence in 2019. (Current VFLW team) Darebin is probably a bit closer than Diamond Creek, but then you go across to the Western Spurs, so there's a big gap."
September 2017
Bid for licence rejected. The AFL said Essendon and Hawthorn put in strong bids and would work with them to improve their chances of receiving a licence in the future.
October 2018
Madison Prespakis (standout junior from the Calder Cannons) and Danielle Ponter (NT product of Long and Rioli lineage who played for Essendon in the VFLW) are drafted by Carlton and Adelaide at the 2018 AFLW National Draft. Other Essendon District Football League juniors to play in the AFLW include Monique Conti, Isabel Huntington and Nicola Stevens.
May 2020
The Bombers claim they can have an AFLW side in 2022. "Prior to the industry shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we [Essendon] wrote to Steve Hocking [AFL football operations boss] to seek clarity about the AFL's future expansion plans for the national women's competition," Essendon chief executive Xavier Campbell told The Age.
"Clearly our industry has been presented with significant challenges, but we are committed to women's football at the elite AFLW level and we are keen to get clarity on what timelines around entry into the competition look like sooner rather than later."
November 2020
Received $6.28m in funding from the Victorian State Government to complete the second stage of a $21 million development to its training centre.
Reportedly a major focus on female football both at the elite and community levels in the development, with the Bombers stating the club was "affirming its commitment to gain entry into the AFLW competition as soon as 2022."
HAWTHORN
2016
Did not bid for a licence.
May 2017
Plans to apply for a license announced. A letter to club members said: "With our feet now firmly embedded at a grass roots level and a strong talent pathway in place for young women, through our alliance with the Eastern Ranges Youth Girls Academy and Box Hill women's side, we are committed to being part of the expanded AFLW competition in 2019."
AFLW players drafted from the Eastern Ranges include Charlotte Wilson, Laura McLelland and Serena Gibbs. AFLW players drafted from the former VWFL Eastern Devils team include Jaimee Lambert, Hannah Scott, Sarah D'Arcy, Katherine Smith, Pepa Randall, Rebecca Privitelli and Sophie Casey.
July 2017
A team of Hawthorn representatives attend AFL House to put forward their case as to why the Hawks deserve a licence in the AFL women's competition.
Hawthorn's submission outlined the financial strength of the club and the power of its vast and engaged audience across three key areas: Melbourne and Victoria’s East, Tasmania and Katherine. They proposed to play home games at Ikon Park as well as in Launceston and Gippsland.
September 2017
Bid for licence rejected. Disapproving of the AFL's decision, the club released a statement: "With the largest number of female members in the league and the experience of building a VFLW team from the ground up, we demonstrated our ability to create an AFLW team that could hit the ground running."
October 2017
The AFL's first female chief executive, Tracey Gaudry, is reportedly sacked by Hawthorn after just five months in the role. The club refutes such reports, saying she stood down for personal reasons. One of Gaudry's priorities was to secure the Hawks an AFL Women's licence.
February 2018
Hawthorn President Jeff Kennett voices his concerns surrounding the amount of injuries in the women's league. "I was disappointed (initially) that the AFL didn't give us the opportunity to have a team," Kennett told SEN's Whateley. "I am quite happy that we don't, right now, have a team."
"I think we have a responsibility, those who administer the game, to do whatever we can to take on board the OH&S considerations. The discussions I have been having over last season and this season, there are a lot of people who share my concern," he said. "I am concerned about the level of injuries in this new game as it is played, and I make no apology for that whatsoever."
May 2018
Kennett calls on the AFL to hand all clubs an AFLW licence by the 2020 season. "I want to make sure that those clubs that do not have a women's team in the AFLW, are able to have a team in that competition in the year 2020," Kennett told SEN Breakfast. "At the moment there's a few of us who have not been given a year and I think that's discriminatory against certain clubs. I also think it's discriminatory against the girls that we have playing for us in the VFL(W)."
Kennett says the AFL is hesitant to expand the competition too quickly for fear of diluting the talent pool, but said that the continued growth of the sport at all levels would likely negate such an issue. "We've had very good discussions with Richard Goyder, we've also had very good discussions with Gil McLachlan about bringing [licences by 2020] about," the former Victorian Premier said.
September 2018
Hawthorn defeat Geelong in the VFLW grand final by 13 points. Chantella Perera was adjudged best on ground and would be drafted by the West Coast Eagles for the 2020 season. Other players from the premiership team drafted to AFLW clubs in the following years included Mikala Cann, Jayde Van Dyk, Rosie Dillon, Julia Crockett-Grills, Tahni Nestor, Sarah Perkins and Tamara Luke.
December 2019
Kennett, at the club AGM, once again vocalises his disappointment about Hawthorn's exclusion from the league: "I find it discriminatory that we have not been given the opportunity to be included in the AFLW thus far."
May 2020
The Hawks re-affirm their desire to join the competition as early as 2021. Chief executive Justin Reeves said entering the AFLW by 2023 at the latest was "non-negotiable".
"Hawthorn remains committed to securing a licence in the AFLW competition. We have not wavered on this in our ongoing discussions with the AFL and we continue to press the AFL for earlier entry for Hawthorn to field an AFLW team," Reeves told The Age.
"We will continue to advocate this point with the AFL, but we want it [to] be incredibly clear to our supporters and members that we remain committed to fielding a team in the AFLW and would like to do so as soon as possible. We have not taken a backwards step with regards to this."
Reeves also said Hawthorn's good financial position and their strong VFLW program would see the Hawks be a "strong, unassisted" addition to the AFLW. "This program will ensure we can hit the ground running," he said.
November 2020
Announced that all positions within its VFLW coaching structure will be held by women.
Federal Government announces a $15 million investment into the Kennedy Community Centre in Dingley Village. The Government's contribution will support Hawthorn's own investment into the project which will be in excess of $30 million.
"The AFLW and community oval and pavilion will become the home ground of Hawthorn’s future AFLW team, with the club continuing to lobby the AFL for entry into the competition in 2022. The pavilion will span three levels, with over 500 seats, community and elite changerooms, a function centre, flexible education spaces and broadcast facilities."
SYDNEY SWANS
June 2017
Did not bid for a licence, but wrote a letter to the AFL indicating their commitment to fielding an AFLW team in the future.
"We've written to the AFL to say that our facilities and a ground in the eastern suburbs won't be ready for 2019, but we do want to apply for a licence, and we're hopeful we will be in a place to do that from 2020 – we think that we can achieve our new facilities and ground in that timeframe," Sydney Swans CEO and Managing Director Andrew Ireland said.
"We're really keen to have a licence and a facility is the only thing that's stopping us. Our Youth Girls Academy will also assist as we believe the best way to build a really strong AFLW team is to take it from grassroots right through. We're hoping it all dovetails together with the Academy operating for girls and an application for an AFLW licence from 2020 onwards."
July 2017
Chief executive-in-waiting Tom Harley declares that establishing a Sydney women's AFL team stands as his No.1 priority when he takes over the reins in 2018.
April 2019
The Federal Government commits $15 million funding to the new Sydney Swans HQ and Community Centre: "The $55 million project to transform the Royal Hall of Industries at Moore Park will deliver dedicated facilities for a Sydney Swans AFLW team, a new home for the NSW Swifts netball team, as well as allowing for the expansion of the QBE Sydney Swans Academy youth girls and boy programs to more than 1,000 participants."
May 2019
Club welcomes a proposed upgrade to iconic Inner West venue Henson Park, for which Federal Member for Grayndler Anthony Albanese MP announces that an incoming Federal Labor Government would invest $5 million. The upgrade also includes construction of female change rooms, which would enable Henson Park to host matches for a future Sydney Swans AFLW team.
It's already a key training venue for the QBE Sydney Swans Academy, and it has hosted NEAFL and pre-season AFL matches. The proposed upgrade would be part of a unique ground-sharing arrangement between AFL NSW/ACT and the Newtown Jets rugby league club.
April 2020
Plans for a new $70 million headquarters put on hold because of the financial impact of the coronavirus outbreak. "The club has exited the lease agreement for now but is committed to reigniting the project post the pandemic," the Swans said in a statement. "We look forward to realising our aspiration to build the Sydney Swans HQ and Community Centre in the future."
June 2020
Resumption of the QBE Sydney Swans Academy programs marks a key stage in the development pathway of the Under 15 Youth Girls squad. "Following the Benchmark training period, a squad of approximately 40 players will form the QBE Sydney Swans Academy's Top-End Youth Girls program, which is designed for players who have the requisite skill, athleticism and desire to become elite footballers in the AFLW competition."
January 2021
Harley says a Sydney Swans AFLW team remains a priority for the club, but it's difficult to put a timeline on entry into the competition.
"When the licenses were first established a few years ago (and then the expansion that's followed since), the club haven't been in a position to field a team, primarily based around facilities," Harley said.
"It's been well documented that one of the significant causalities of COVID-19 was our plans for a new facility at the Royal Hall of Industries. We are working feverishly to get that back on board and satisfy our facility challenges – that is a primary concern for us and that's one of the key planks for our entry in the AFLW."
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