AFL has a $50m problem

Old-Philosopher5587 · 2025-07-28T02:52:31+00:00

Great point, specifically this: "the men's sport is subsidising the women. It basically reflects men having to subsidise women in society".

63daddy · 2025-07-28T13:22:00+00:00

We have separate sports for women due to the acknowledgment at that athletically that athletically men are far superior to women. Having separate leagues for women provides opportunities, they wouldn’t have in the absence of such leagues.

Given we acknowledge they are athletically inferior, it’s ridiculous to then expect they will draw the same viewership or should commend the same pay. It’s like arguing minor league baseball should produce the same revenues and earn as much as major league players.

We shouldn’t use men’s sports to subsidize women’s sports. Rather, female sports should be funded (including their salaries) in keeping with the revenues they produce.

kmikek · 2025-07-28T18:34:50+00:00

If you want them to be successful then theres a simple solution; you and a thousand friends buy 200 season tickets each. Then either show up or dont, it doesnt matter.

Angryasfk · 2025-07-29T08:54:22+00:00

For US readers, AFL sort of combines the speed of basketball with the physicality of NFL. The AFL itself only dates from 1987 when the West Coast Eagles joined. Prior to that there were individual State leagues. The Sydney Swans are an anomaly. They were a Melbourne club (South Melbourne) who had fallen on hard times and relocated to Sydney (rugby league is the main winter sport there, even now).

Not one of the women in the women’s league could match it against one of the male players. And even at the “peak” of the “interest” the narrator alludes to, the quality was still inferior. It was almost unheard of for a women’s team to kick 10 goals. Witness the talk about “shortening the grounds” or allowing them to run 25 metres without bouncing (in football you have to touch the ball to the ground every 15m or 50ft - a bit like dribbling, and players bounce an elliptical ball as they run to stick to the rule).

The truth? The “interest” was really a bit of a gimmick. And it was a short season. Of course they came out and demanded “equal pay”.

My view is that ultimately money rules. These pompous morons in charge are ultimately selfish people. They promote this stuff to make themselves look good. But when it hurts their bottom line, their “scruples” suddenly disappear.

Just as all these DEI initiatives only work when they get the non-box tickers to take up the slack, and when they don’t, or won’t, and hiring some hairdresser as if she’s able to match an experience excavator operator actually hurts the profit, suddenly they dump the idea.

Sufficient_Button363 · 2025-07-29T12:01:11+00:00

Wales national soccer team took a paycut to subsidise the women's national team...on what planet does that make sense?

Title	AFL has a $50m problem
Author	Ozhubdownunder
Upvotes	43
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Date	July 27, 2025 10:32 PM UTC (1 year ago)
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