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 Monday, November 20 2017 @ 02:11 pm ACDT

Women's clubs in Canada

Alberta Women’s league Ontario Women’s League (100)
Calgary Kookaburras Etobicoke Kangaroos
Edmonton Emus Toronto Central Blues
High Park Demons
Hamilton Wildcats
Quebec Women’s Australian Football League
Rep Team: Montreal Angels BC Women’s league
Eastern Devils West Coast Wildcats
Plateau Eagles Vancouver Vixens
NDG Giants
Carleton Warriors*
Ottawa Rideau Shamrocks* *Ottawa Lady Swans

Women’s Clubs in United States Of America

Arizona Lady Hawks (17) Baltimore/Washington Boston Lady Demons (16)
Columbus Jillaroos (16) Denver Lady Bulldogs (36) Minnesota Lady Freeze (38)
New York Lady Magpies (24) Sacramento Lady Suns (34) Portland Sockeyes
Tulsa Buffaloes -(Bridgetown Banshees)
San Francisco Iron Maidens (43) – Breakers
- Sirens
# in brackets known and named registered players 2016/17
all playing AFL (Australian Rules Football) not the lingerie version of American (Gridiron/NFL) either.

Women’s Clubs in South Australia

Adelaide Uni West Adelaide Morphettville Park
Salisbury Port Adelaide Modbury
Div 2
Angle Vale Christies Beach Mt Lofty
Greenacres Mt Barker Ingle Farm

Your opinion duly noted, Jarren, but it would be better accepted by the International Footy Community and footy fans in general if your percentages were derived from having some knowledge of what is actually happening in women's footy internationally. Your 99% of activity in women's footy happening in Australia and only 1% happening outside Aussie would actually put the activity of women's footy in South Australia at some where less than about 0.01%.

Your 1% v 99% would be way off actual real activity going on in women's footy across the world.

Please note: Women's footy is being played regularly in about a dozen countries and has been taken up being played in six or seven other countries in the last several years. (not an actual league got going yet).

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

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Wednesday, November 22 2017 @ 06:10 pm ACDT

Not to undermine the international argument (I don't think the raw numbers are all that important in this debate), but Cam the number of women's teams/players is probably more important than the number of clubs, and in South Australia has exploded in the last few years. So in the example of South Australia the teams in 2017 were:

Div 1 - Adelaide Uni, West Adelaide, Morphettville Park, Salisbury, Port Adelaide, Modbury

Div 2 - Angle Vale, Christies Beach, Mount Lofty, Greenacres, Mount Barker, Adelaide Uni, Morphettville Park, Ingle Farm

Div 3 - Flinders Uni, Gaza, North Pines, Port Adelaide, West Adelaide, Eastern Park, Angle Vale, Western Suburbs

Div 4 - Happy Valley, Adelaide Uni, Christies Beach, Morphettville Park, Ironbank Cherry Gardens, Mount Lofty, Nairne Bremer, Kangarilla

Div 5 - Strathalbyn, Salisbury, Mount Barker, Golden Grove, North Haven, Aldinga

I count (quickly) 30 teams. Amazing. I can remember when it was about 4 sides just maybe 10 years ago. And all or mostly 18-a-side plus a 10 team U18s and many many junior sides. And we know involvement in SA has only just boomed after lagging well behind most other states.
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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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