Ode to Women’s Footy (in the Corona absence)

I was had at ‘hello’ when you stormed the stage, felt inner glow at this turn of the page. A powerful debut in the epic of you.

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Besotted from first bounce at the Aussie Rules announce, I became, partial to your punt, I heard the hip-and-shoulder, the grimace and the grunt.

 

 

 

As you battle for the prizes, I adore your shapes and sizes, ponytail or crew, in the AFLW. Delirious about your dash and scramble for the ball; perfectly imperfect is my call.

 

 

 

I get teary at the scrap, ooh and aah and rise to clap. Glued to the screen, stuck to the dial: even your argy-bargy makes me smile.

 

 

 

More Helen Garner than Patrick White, regaling us all with stories you write.

 

You dish a don’t-argue to the tricksters and trolls; Amazon warriors, not Barbie dolls. No shrinking violets wither this ground, or lofty pedestals where martyrs abound – talk put to swords; actions roar above those words.

 

 

 

(Baulk conniving producers imposing direction, and ghost writers plotting intervention – i.e. AFLsplainers and over-officiators)

 

I won’t patronise with more idealise, though you’re a tonic, I’m politically platonic so, as with the males, if you finesse and stall, you’ll still hear my wail, “kick the bloody ball!”

 

 

 

(I’ll stab-pass, though, at a future gong: your own teams, monikers and song. Same-same, but different enthral – you’re from Venus after all.)

 

The Aussie Rules others who hopped on the bus, shout to the world “you complete us!”

 

 

Read more from Paul Spinks HERE

 

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