"There is a genuine desire to put a 20th team into the AFLW competition when Tasmania comes in – of an Irish team." Eddie McGuire with some big news for the AFLW. #9FootyClassified | Watch on 9 & 9Now 🖥️

@FootyonNine So 40-odd professional female Irish AFL players, plus their entire support staff to be located and housed and play… where? No issues around absent families, home sickness etc. No chance of a pandemic locking them out of their home country.

@Edtechx @FootyonNine They're talking about a new AFLW team based in Melbourne and made up of Irish players and/or ex-pats, most of whom are already living here. They're not importing an entire team + staff + fanbase over here from Ireland. Not sure what a Pandemic has to do with anything either.