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What became of the Italian women\'s side?

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User)
on Monday, July 11 2011 @ 07:19 pm ACST

Ciao Brett & the WRN Team, what do you mean whatever happened to AFL Femminile Italia? You're article suggests that they are no longer around and given that their first appearance was in the 2010 Euro Cup in 2010, that's a very short life if this is the case. Just to let you know it is definitely not the case, they are still very much alive and well and coming out with a victory from a great game at Fontanafredda against the Bolivian AFL 'F'. I'm not sure of your source but I think you should check your facts and speak with those on both sides of the fence before publishing these sort of articles. I really love what you're doing here at WFN but I sometimes feel that maybe you're very one sided with your articles and don't do enough research into the topic being reported on. Having said that we at AFL 'F' and AFL Femminile Italia would love to chat to you about our plans for the future and provide you with "the other side of the story". Look forward to hearing from you soon to let you know why we're not attending the International Cup and what our focus is moving forward.

What became of the Italian women\'s side?

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Monday, July 18 2011 @ 02:17 pm ACST

Hi Peta,

Sorry I didn't reply to this straight away - I didn't notice the comment until just now (there's been a lot of traffic in the comments section). I'm afraid I do have to disagree with most of what you said though.

Where you ask "what do you mean whatever happened to AFL Femminile Italia?", we did not say that. The story title is "What became of the Italian women's side?", posted under the 2011 International Cup topic. And by that we were posing the question "why are they not coming to IC11?" because at one stage you intended to and then it didn't happen, so we explored what the reasons were, and we talked to you at AFL Femminile Italia (via Tobie), Nic at AFL Italia (via Aaron) and Tony Woods at the AFL (via me).

When you say we were a bit one sided and should talk to both sides, we did, we spoke to you, Nic and Tony.

When you mention that the article suggests you no longer exist, I can't see any reference anywhere in the article that suggests that. In fact you remind us that you played a game at Fontanafredda but we reported that here so of course we know you still exist: South American flavours in 1st Italian women's victory

One difficulty reporting on this issue was that there seemed to be a lot of different versions, so we gave a small sample of opinions from each side and it's up to the readers to draw their own conclusions. As far as I can see what is done is done and this issue has pretty much played out, unless people want to generate further bad blood by debating it in public. Going forward if you have further plans then we're happy for you to have a chat to Tobie and she can do further stories. Obviously IC11 is the main thing for us at the moment but after we'll be turning our attention again to other areas.

Sorry to disagree so much but it felt like you read a completely different article and after re-reading it I still feel the same way.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

What became of the Italian women\\\'s side?

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Monday, July 18 2011 @ 02:35 pm ACST

Sorry if that sounds a little blunt but we go to great effort to make sure we are not presenting a biased view and we've run many articles on AFL Femminile Italia's fundraisers in the past to try to help promote it. We're also disappointed you couldn't make it to IC11, and we discussed this article in great length trying to work out how best to report it whilst not inflaming the situation, and in the end after a week of to-ing and fro-ing this is what we came up with, so to then be accused of not checking facts or asking both sides or making it sound like you no longer exist is, frankly, frustrating and a little offensive.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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