• Kill It Girls

    Kill It Girls

    I love all AFLW clubs (except, perhaps, for Collingwood) but what I saw Melbourne do last Saturday is really special for me. They proved how good AFLW teamplay can be. Today I cannot be anything but a Dee. Here are some highlights:

    This rap is the result:

    Maggie magic is a password for a goal that broke it open. On the siren kept her eye in and got us going.

    Kill it Kill it Kill it  Girls/When we push we get more goals/Shaking up the footy world/Kill it girls

    No need to watch old cricket when the prelim’s got Gall in it. She grew up in Euroa. Demons know her country spirit. Her opponents got no chance. Georgia chokes her dance.

    Look at First ruck Campbell playing the game her dad did. Quick as a flash the ball is out for yet another clearance

    Kill It Kill It Kill It Girls. When we push we get more goals. Kill it girls.

    Terrific grabs are ours when Ryleigh’s in the house. The crowd can shout out loud for this perseverance.

    Crows champ Chelsea Randall thought she had it handled. But Tahlia Gillard’s run down made her put her guns down.

    Pace and nerve craft and verve the will to do the work: gotta back in Blaithin Mackin keeping us on course.

    All Aussie Captain Kate she’s dope she’s boss she’s great. Her goals her shirks her passes are making us a force.

    Kill it Kill it Kill It Girls. When you push you get more goals. Kill It Girls

    I am a 68 year old bloke on Australia’s social scrapheap without the ability this week to put the above words and film together.

    Apologies to all people (especially Harriette Cordner) from non Collingwood Clubs because I cannot do more of this for you. Apologies for Melbourne people because I cannot even finish this one properly. I do this on my own ……….

    BUT ……….. Go Dees !!!!!!!!!

    As Ned is sometimes said to have said, “Such Is Life.”

    Geoff Fox, November 19, 2025, West Footscray, Australia

    above words and film copyright Geoff Fox 2025

  • Football And Morality.

    I have been watching our sport of Australian Rules football since 1945, when I attended the famous Bloodbath Grand Final as an innocent nine-year-old. What I love about the game is the high marking , the precision kicking and the speed with which the ball transitions from the back to the forwards.

    I support 17 games in both the AFL and AFLW as the best number of regular season games. (When and if a Tasmanian team joins the AFL, the figure 17 should be increased to 18.)

    Every team should play every other team once. That’s the fairest and most sporting way.

    I agree with my occasional fellow congregant Geoff Fox that “Fairness is fundamental to every effective social action we take and every social institution we wish to maintain. Do as you would be done by.”

    But I suggest a modification to Geoff’s idea of 17 AFLW games in 2026 to a slower phasing in with 15 games in 2026 and 17 games in 2027.

    Bill Uren, moral philosopher and scholar, Newman College. The 17th of November, 2025

  • REDEFINING THE DEES AS THE BEST GENDER PARITY FOOTY CLUB IN AUSTRALIA

    DEAR MICK STINEAR AND PLAYERS,

    Does this rewrite of It’s A Grand Old Flag represent what you stand for? Would you sing it?

    “Its a home grown game. Its a great Aussie game

    with fairness for me and for you.

    And the fairness of this game we love

    is famed in the red and the blue.

    Every hearts beats true for the red and the blue.

    We sing this song to you:

    no gender gap is what we want !!!!

    Keep your eyes on the red and the blue.”

    Geoff Fox, Novmeber 17, 2026, West Footscray, Australia. former Registered Midwife (educated in Herston)

  • Human Rights Of Female Players Violated By A 12-Game AFLW Season

    The following is a list of those human rights – as articulated in the UnIversal Declaration Of Human Rights – which I believe are violated when the AFLW has a 12 game season and the AFL has a 23 game season.

    ARTICLE 1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

    ARTICLE 2. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as ……. sex …….

    ARTICLE 5. No one shall be subjected to ……. degrading treatment …….

    ARTICLE 23. Everyone has the right to work ……. (AND) to just and favourable conditions of work …….

    I am also deeply concerned that any female footballer or many female footballers, who wish to complain about the above, will be prevented from doing so, thus violating:

    ARTICLE 19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media …….

    Geoff Fox, November 9, 2025, Melbourne, Australia

  • WET WEATHER WOMEN’S FOOTY AT ITS BEST

    WET WEATHER WOMEN’S FOOTY AT ITS BEST

    At times the rain in yesterday’s Carlton Vs West Coast AFLW elimination final was close to torrential:

    That did not stop the players from showing some magnificent skills. For i:tance there was this great mark and rapid play-on from Ella Roberts:

    Impeccable ballhandling from Carlton lead to a great goal for Dayna Finn:

    A goal slotted from well outside 50 lead to a type of joyous dancing celebration that men’s footy cannot match:

    Three Carlton players in a row took very good wet weather marks. Ruck Breann Harrington. Midfielder Brooke Vickers. And finally forward Mia Austin.

    Australia is supposed to be a fair first world society.

    There is no excuse for not giving women who are as good at football as these ones are a 12 game season when the men get 23.

    A 17 AFLW game season in 2026 must happen.

    Geoff Fox, November 9, 2025, Melbourne, Australia

  • Ben Brown Backs A 17 Game AFLW Season

    Ben Brown Backs A 17 Game AFLW Season

    Ban Brown played 175 games of AFL football and kicked 350 goals.

    He was North Melbourne’s leading goal kicker 4 times and kicked 3 goals in Melbourne’s 2021 premiership victory.

    He gives the 17 game AFLW season concept a double thumbs up:

    Ben knows football.

    He is a kind, thoughtful man.

    I hope lots more people support this idea.

    Geoff fox, November 8, 2025, Melbourne, Australia

  • GIVE THE GIRLS MORE GAMES BECAUSE THEY DESERVE THEM

    GIVE THE GIRLS MORE GAMES BECAUSE THEY DESERVE THEM

    Last nights performance by North Melbourne at Icon Park was a powerful arguement for more womens’ football.

    The crowd roared again for Emma King’s powerful pack mark:

    Savour the spectacle of Irish star Blaithin Bogue almost simultaneously kicking the ball AND bumping her opponent.

    Bella Eddey’s teammates get around her after a great goal.

    It is an absolutely ridiculous injustice that the wonderful football of these women can only be seen in 12 regular season games a year while the men are on show for 23.

    Geoff Fox, former midwife, November 8, 2025, Melbourne, Australia,