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North American women's footy on SEN

Authored by: Michael Christiansen
on Wednesday, August 22 2007 @ 08:52 am ACST

The battle for women is more important than many might think - in Aust it is recognised that the AFL has a strength in it's female support as compared to the NRL for example. Melb Victory in the A-League has been using AFL club marketing strategies successfully and both has (~16.5K so far with 1st game this week) vastly better membership than the rest of the comp or any NRL clubs too - including many AFL club members and women (families). (The competitive advantage is never 'forever'.

Interesting that a 13 yr old girl (from Tiwi Islands) - playing for Ivanhoe - won the U13s(?) B&F in the Yarra Valley footy - and she missed 3 games mid year too.

North American women's footy on SEN

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Wednesday, August 22 2007 @ 08:03 pm ACST

There's no doubt that getting more women playing the game can play a big part in the sport's growth - both because that's growth in numbers itself, plus the potential influence on the next generation. The more people involved the better.

I actually was a little sceptical a few years ago as to whether full tackling footy would take off with women. I thought a reduced tackling version may be more popular. Certainly there will be women who love the full contact version, but many who may not (I've seen girls who enjoy Gaelic football but wouldn't dream of taking the next step to Aussie Rules). In some areas like South Australia women's footy has really struggled to take off and I would've guessed the tackling issue was why. But the growth in Victoria has been huge, so presumably it's not the rules as such that is holding it back.

Note that the US Freedom are auctioning off a signed jumper, something that would be a pretty historic first, so I'd encourage interested people to visit the above website and put in a bid. If only we could get Sam Newman of The Footy Show fame to open the bidding - he's well known for starting with very generous offers for memorabilia!

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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