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Game Day 4 - Live Scores

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, August 18 2011 @ 07:07 pm ACST

To be honest I'm not sure of the Australian IM criteria. I believe the AFL wanted to select a team that would be competitive (which sadly it is not) and which was a mixture of indigenous and multi-cultural. I think a lot of the multi-cultural women are new to the game - maybe they are brand new?

I think when the tournament finishes we'll certainly look, as we have in the past, to review everything and we'll ask the AFL what their intention was and whether they misjudged things.

But let's not stress too much about that aspect. The tournament is about the best international sides coming together to play. It was never meant to measure Australian women's footy, just as the men's tournament does not. Regardless of how Australia IM do it tells us nothing because we already know they are not the All-Australian side. It's really an add on that unfortunately seems to be distracting people from the main event.