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AFLW Inside Out
It's your definitive breakdown of women's footy- from inside the boundary line to the big picture...

Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/aflw-inside-out/

#AusPods #Podcasts #Podcasting #Australia #Sport #AussieRules #AFLW

Just two weeks until the start of the footy season. The real one. The AFLW one.

GWS Giants AFLW memberships are only $79, which is ridiculously good value: https://am.ticketmaster.com/gwsgiants/AFLWSupporter

(I've already got my membership, because I'm not a TERF. Which means I believe in financially supporting women's sports and attending games, as opposed to using "women's sports" as a stick to attack trans people with.)

For the round one game on Saturday 16 August, they've got a double-header with the men's game as a curtain raiser at 1:40pm, before the women's game at 4:45pm: http://www.gwsgiants.com.au/news/2083659

And because both matches are against West Coast, honestly the women's game is likely to be the more entertaining contest...

#AFLW

AFLW All-Stars and Ireland delight a different type of sports crowd: ‘There’s nothing quite like it’ https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/02/aflw-all-stars-ireland-north-sydney-oval #AFL #AFLW #Ireland #Australia

AFLW All-Stars and Ireland delight a different type of sports crowd: ‘There’s nothing quite like it’
By Caitlin Cassidy at North Sydney Oval

There was a carnival atmosphere as a packed North Sydney Oval witnessed the first international women’s Australian rules game

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/02/aflw-all-stars-ireland-north-sydney-oval

#AFLW #Australianrulesfootball #Australiasport #Sport #TheGuardian #CaitlinCassidyatNorthSydneyOval

‘Great Wall’: Brutal bump, ‘Irish flair’ in freak goal as emotions pour out after Australia wins ‘electric’ AFLW international clash https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/womens-afl/aflw-allstars-game-2026-australia-vs-ireland-live-scores-and-updates-how-to-watch-free-live-stream-on-kayo-freebies/news-story/37f8c54e419bd3100839245c62f764de #AFL #AFLW #Australia #Ireland

Aussies earn bragging rights over Ireland in cracking contest https://www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/1573333/match-report-australia-v-ireland
Goals flowed and fans packed into North Sydney Oval to see Australia defeat Ireland in the first AFLW international game
#AFLW #AFL #Ireland #Australia

'Teammates will become rivals this Saturday when two countries go head-to-head in the historic 2026 AFLW Australia v Ireland match at North Sydney Oval.' https://www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/1572002/ultimate-guide-to-the-2026-aflw-australia-v-ireland-match #AFL #AFLW #Australia 🦘 #Ireland 🍀

All-Stars game offers a chance to celebrate how Irish players have shaped the AFLW | Danielle Croci
By Danielle Croci

Forty-six Irish players are on current AFLW lists and Saturday’s sold-out game provides a unique opportunity to highlight their influence

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jul/31/aflw-all-stars-game-irish-players-australia-v-ireland-cup

#AFLW #Australianrulesfootball #Australiasport #Sport #TheGuardian #DanielleCroci

Columnist: I'm standing up for what I believe in! Protecting women's sport! And I'll keep standing up for it, no matter how much those snowflakes try to silence me and my right to free speech!

Citizen: That's fantastic! You know, female athletes have to put up with so much vicious misogyny and abuse, especially on social media. Some men really can be snowflakes when it comes to women's sport.

Columnist: No! I'm raising the big issue in women's sport, and I'm being /attacked/ for it!

Citizen: Really?! People are attacking you for saying female athletes deserve equal pay for equal work?

Columnist: Not that one! I'm talking about something far more serious, affecting the health and wellbeing of female athletes. And even the very integrity of women's sport itself!

Citizen: Do you mean how sports science focuses almost exclusively on male athletes, leading to women suffering anterior cruciate ligament injuries at six times the rate of men (citation: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/magazine/acl-tear-women-girl-sports.html )?

Citizen: Or do you mean how elite women's sport is routinely relegated to worse venues and TV coverage, with less sponsorship and promotion?

Columnist: No! I'm talking about protecting women's sport from the scourge of men transitioning for the sole purpose of winning at women's sport!

Citizen: Why would a professional male athlete who's not trans want to go through all the challenges and discrimination of transitioning for less pay, less TV coverage, fewer sponsorships, smaller crowds, less promotion, higher injury risk, worse venue, online abuse, and rampant misogyny, just to win at women's sport?

Columnist: Because *winning*!

Citizen: Can you give an example of where this has actually happened?

Columnist: ...

Citizen: And what do you propose to do about it?

Columnist: Totally dismantle democracy, install a totalitarian dictatorship, arrest or kill anyone who disagrees with said despot, and deport ethnic minorities en masse. Also we'll use it to justify rolling back all healthcare and civil rights to trans people, establishing that human rights exist at the arbitrary will of our overload, which the despot will use arbitrarily against all women and any other individuals or groups he disagrees with.

Citizen: That seems a bit... extreme.

Columnist: It's all to protect women's sport.

Citizen: And what will you do about the other issues I raised?

Columnist: Well, if any of them, such as research into sports medicine for women or facilities for women's sport, require public funding, then we'll cut the funding and give the money back to rich supporters of our despot as a tax cut.

Citizen: I see. Say, just out of curiosity, who do you think will win the grand final in the AFLW this year?

Columnist: I honestly don't care. I'm not into women's sport, sorry.

#AFLW #womenssport #transrights #auspol #ukpol #uspol #politics #feminism #terf #terfs #trans

My new T-shirt arrived just in time for Christmas:

#AFLW #BackToBack #NorthMelbourne #NorthMelbourneFootballClub

Every post-sport interview ever:
Interviewer: so sports person, you just won a sport, what do you think about how you sported?
Sportsperson (slightly out of breath): well we just went out there to sport as hard as we could, and the other team were sporting pretty hard, but on the day we sported better, and the rest of the team sported super hard, so, yeah,

But congrats to North Melbourne for their record breaking achievement.
#AFLW

Damn, Ham. #AFLW

Absolutely SICK goal by Kuwarna (Adelaide Crows) Eloise Jones this weekend. #AFLW #australianfootball

https://www.afl.com.au/aflw/video/1414520/ridiculous-goal-of-the-year-contender-sets-crows-alight

Five in the first half. Sydney’s FAVOURITE number 5. #AFLW #GoSwans #AFLSunsSwans

Congratulations to Tilly on their surgery.

And also a quick reminder that "trans people in sport" also includes trans men, transmasc, and nonbinary people.

Should be obvious, but it's astounding how often they're completely erased from the conversation. (Especially by TERFs.) #AFL #AFLW #trans

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-20/tilly-lucas-rodd-top-surgery-first-aflw-player/105432144?utm_source=Mastodon

My kid, who moved to Melbourne nearly 4 years ago, has just become aware of Sam Newman. You could say she's underwhelmed.

#AFL #AFLWomens #AFLW #PrideRound

Also, in case you haven't seen it yet, there's an Aussie Rules feed on BlueSky that gathers all posts tagged #AFL and #AFLW: bsky.app/profile/did:...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:icjxoyo6ajkf3h2popjwkltz/feed/aaafkhtyopmiy

Which reminds me: For anyone new to BlueSky over the Summer, there's a feed that automatically pulls in any posts tagged with #AFL or #AFLW: bsky.app/profile/did:... So if you post using those tags on BSky (or from Mastodon over BridgyFed) it will automatically be added to the feed.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:icjxoyo6ajkf3h2popjwkltz/feed/aaafkhtyopmiy

There was little surprise about who was taken at No.1 in the AFLW draft on Monday night as Gippsland prodigy Ash Centra made her way to Collingwood. On FOOTYOLOGY, Ronny Lerner has the recap. #footyology #AFLW #AFLWdraft

AFLW Draft 2024: Ash takes Cen...

First-of-its-Kind AFL Docuseries 'Young Bloods' Premieres on TikTok

https://tvblackbox.com.au/page/2024/12/03/first-of-its-kind-afl-docuseries-young-bloods-premieres-on-tiktok/?feed_id=201599

#AFL #AFLW #Documentary #SydneySwans #TikTok #YoungBloods

@doncandon The more you talk about it here the more posts will federate onto the server and the more fun everyone will have #AFLW :bluey: