One reason the North Melbourne Football Club women are on top of the ladder underfeated with a percentage of 331.5 is because they work hard at training doing things to make them react quicker than their opponents.
Look at Blaithin Bogue’s brilliant tap into the goalsquare for proof:
And look how Tahlia Randall’s Richmond opponent is left flat-footed by Tahlia’s evasive skills:
This is beautiful.
Geoff Fox, October 13, Melbourne, Australia
For me women’s footy is way better to look at than the men’s game.
Just look at the teamwork, skill, strength and joy in this passage of play from last Saturday’s Spurs-Eagles clash at the Merv Hughes Oval in beautiful parkland on the banks of the Maribyrnong River:
A great chaos ball into the forward pocket from Parkside Spurs number 26 leads to winger no 4 leaving her Yarraville Seddon opponent flat footed to kick a goal.
What’s not to love?
Geoff Fox, 16th June, 2025, Melbourne, Australia
Since I first started following Aussie Rules footy at the age of 9 in 1967, the qualities I have most loved seeing are courage at the contest and skill, speed and flair.
Outstanding players I have seen in this regard are Barry Price, Keith Greig, Robbie Flower, Wayne Schimmelbusch, Garry Ablett Senior, Eddie Betts, The Krakouer brothers and the current Number 5 of the North Melbourne Kangaroos AFLW team, Tess Craven.
As a human being Tess is modest, kind, friendly and helpful and always puts her team ahead of herself. The strength, skill and determination she shows above in tackling a Melbourne opponent about one and a half times her size are awe-inspiring.
What’s not to love?
Geoff Fox, June 8, 2025, Melbourne, Australia
I love watching women’s football.
It provides a better spectacle and healthier community than the men’s game.
Watch the strength, agility and quick thinking of number 22 from Aberfeldie as an example of how good the women’s game can be to watch:
With a fantastic tackle she dispossesses a powerfully built Hillside opponent of the football, and then gets to her feet and brilliantly anticipates the trajectory of a handpass from another Hillside player to knock the ball behind an opponent and run around that player to gain possession for her team and race off to send the ball goalwards before anyone could stop her.
What an incredible bit of multi-tasking in congested play.
Geoff Fox, 2nd June, 2025, Melbourne, Australia
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