Opinion: New Head of Women's Football Needs To Take The Blinkers Off

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Opinion: New Head of Women's Football Needs To Take The Blinkers Off

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Friday, November 17 2017 @ 11:47 pm ACDT

Have to agree with your sentiments, Troy.
Pity Nicole's appointment came after the International Cup, where she would have seen the passion and desire to follow the dream of playing Australian Football in those 150 or so girls and women that mostly paid their own way(forked out between $1000 and $5000 and more to get to Melbourne) and as they say, busted a gut, (and a leg I think) over two weeks playing for their country.

I must say I enjoyed watching those girls playing just as much as I enjoyed the AFLW games earlier in the year.
It will be a sad indictment by the AFL if the dreams and passion of those girls and the hundreds if not thousands of girls from the other countries are ignored because they are not Australians and supposedly only represent 1% of women playing Aussie Footy across the world. (South Africa and PNG junior's playing AFL number into the thousands I believe).

Nicole does say in her statement that she is "excited by the challenge of growing the sport from a community grass roots level right through to high performance etc.". I just hope she realises that the international footy community is NOW a considerable part of the grass roots of the sport, especially women's footy. (17 + countries playing women's footy at last count)

The cynical side of me would have been put completely to rest if the rest of her statement had been "There are many passionate AFL people around the world, all wanting to see the AFLW find its place in the hearts and minds of women around the world etc. etc.". Umm. yes, yes but NO, unfortunately!

AS the Head of of Women's Football in the AFL(World Ruling Body) the CHALLENGE really is to grow the sport right across the WORLD, and she would be doing AFL(Australian Rules Football) a huge dis-service if her job is restricted to just Australia.

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