![]() ![]() LFL organisers said “these athletes absolutely love the sport and their involvement. Are free labour and sexploitation suddenly appealing if they come with admiration and fame? It’s a given that there will be enough men of a certain disposition to watch the LFL games. What is harder to understand is why a woman would engage in this arguably demeaning conduct and not even get paid. Next year's Netball World Cup is expected to bring 17,000 to the grand final in Sydney, but Netball Australia's desperate attempts to find a commercial TV broadcaster have so far come to nothing. The latter shows a single match at midday on Sundays (which apparently not a single commercial television channel was interested in showing, even at that non-obtrusive timeslot). ”īy contrast with the coverage afforded the LFL, netball was dumped from commercial free-to-air television in 2012 and has since struggled to salvage a deal with Foxtel and SBS. We were told to turn up a couple of hours beforehand for hair and make-up. Stone told Guardian Australia that rather than players getting advice on safety, “training ended with a pep talk about how to look sexy on Saturday night. I still have scars from the burns I got from my skin having contact with it,” Stone said.Īsked about the competitors' uniforms, fashion commentator and author Mel Campbell said she was particularly worried about “cuts and grazes from grinding and bashing their bare skin again helmets, padding or hard artificial turf”.Ĭampbell also wondered whether the male spectators enjoyed seeing women getting “broken wrists, shoulders, ribs or necks like LFL player Marirose Roach who was rushed to hospital with a broken neck." Campbell believes safety could be improved if players’ uniforms were designed more for protection and less for titillation. We were told to ‘pancake the shit out of her’ and told to ‘put her in the parking lot’. If we lost, the US players would mock us, and yell ‘you're a pussy’. In one girl-on-girl drill, we had the US players circling us shouting at us and trying to rally us to bring harm to the girl we were up against. Stone was concerned because “at the training session we were encouraged and to a point intimidated to act aggressively towards the other girls trying out. “I saw one of the American players on crutches and wondered how she was paying for her treatment,” she said. Stone told Guardian Australia the staff running the training session said the LFL would not be liable if she was injured while training or playing in the league. Sydney University student Tal Stone attended an LFL training session in 2012 where she was “handed an application form, talent release and ‘Waiver of Compensation’ form”. The LFL does provide secondary medical services through its network of sports medicine sponsors," a league spokesman said. This means if players suffer a serious injury and are required to have time away from work they are not entitled to any compensation from the league. “Much like every amateur sport, the athletes use their primary insurance for treatment of injuries. Organisers also confirmed that players must rely on their own insurance, despite the obvious injury risks from a game based on American football. ![]()
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