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Authored by: Tobietta Rhyman
on Thursday, August 18 2011 @ 11:34 pm ACST

I really hope no-one get the impression that indigenous and multicultural women and girls have no talent for football. The truth is very different- there are plenty of girls with talent and experience. Women's football is far easier for foriegn and multicultural girls to get into than for men. And even though the NT Thunder, a mostly indigenous team, didn't perform so well at the women's nationals this year, they would have been competitive had they been part of IC11. However, having never seen women's football overseas, the selection panel excluded state champions. In order to promote the development of football in Sydney and in indigenous communities, the majority of girls were chosen from there, many of whom had limited football experience, with a few SWAFL and VWFL regulars to back them up.

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Little Pommy Girl

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AFL England Women's Football Co-ordinator; WFN Female Football Writer

RE: AMI team selection

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Friday, August 19 2011 @ 12:05 am ACST

Hey Tobie, we'll probably ask you to do a wrap up after the tournament on what you thought of the standard, but do you have some preliminary thoughts on how the various nations are performing compared with say the Victorian Women's league in which you played this year? How might sides like Ireland and the USA stack up against players from the established Aussie leagues.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

RE: AMI team selection

Authored by: Tobietta Rhyman
on Friday, August 19 2011 @ 11:06 am ACST

I definately think the girls from USA, Ireland and Canada could make a regulars spot in VWFL reserves, which effectively makes them seniors class in any other league. And some girls could probably make seniors in a mid table VWFL team. Even PNG, mostly being Youth Girls age, could go straight into a Melbourne YG team. But the level between top and bottom in VWFL is pretty big- 6 times Premiers Darebin, and the team set to knock them off this year, VU St Albans, can produce scores of over 100 points against bottom teams.

In terms of the Women's Nationals, the USA, Canada and Ireland teams would be a competitive addition to division 2. A world team might even be competitive in division 1, but Victoria is another level beyond that. Big V vs Rest of Australia would be an awesome match but I'd still back Victoria to win.

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Little Pommy Girl

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AFL England Women's Football Co-ordinator; WFN Female Football Writer

RE: AMI team selection

Authored by: Neotraveler
on Friday, August 19 2011 @ 03:44 pm ACST

There are already international players playing in top 4 VWFL Premier division sides and doing extremely well. From what I've seen so far there would be a rather large handful that could easily also make the step. As was already said, better to underestimate the strength of the OzIM side than send an all-star team. Canada v Ireland was a cracker of a game and I think we'll see a few more to come.

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AFL England Women's Football Co-ordinator; WFN Female Football Writer

RE: AMI team selection

Authored by: Michael Christiansen
on Friday, August 19 2011 @ 06:41 pm ACST

Laura Corrigan for one......

(okay, I'm a broken record now.)

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AFL England Women's Football Co-ordinator; WFN Female Football Writer

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