Stands for Australian Football League Womens, sounds weird but they wanted to stay with AFL and needed to add the W for women is there. There was a big push last year to add women's footy to the big league and this year 2017, they will be playing a game before the mens.
We have seen a few games as they have been televised and they are good. The rules are the same but it is 16 aside rather 18 and they play for fifteen minutes each quarter as opposed to twenty five for the men and the ball is slightly smaller to cater for smaller hands.
Before the season starts there has been for many years a pre-season competition but it doesn't get televised, I guess because there is cricket and tennis commitments but the girls comp played late afternoon has been televised.
We were out on Saturday night when the two top undefeated teams played each other so we recorded it and watched it yesterday. What a match, it was on for young and old. finally Brisbane Lions won against Adelaide Crows and it was played in Adelaide too so a big coup for the girls.
Really looking forward to seeing more of the girls play. Already there are some big names coming to light, Department of Defence and Chemist Warehouse are supporting/sponsoring the teams as is the AFL itself. I think it is a good move for the game.
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