{"id":13292,"date":"2017-10-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/shocking-stat-revealed-about-afl-women-s-competition\/"},"modified":"2017-10-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T00:00:00","slug":"shocking-stat-revealed-about-afl-women-s-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/shocking-stat-revealed-about-afl-women-s-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking Stat Revealed About AFL Women\u2019s Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The AFLW currently reports \u201csignificantly higher\u201d numbers of ACL injuries and double the concussion rate of the men\u2019s league.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/erin-phillips_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Melbourne footy reporter Sam McClure has revealed the numbers, which are expected to be released in full in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThey\u2019ve scaled it out because the seasons are different lengths,\u201d McClure told <em>SEN <\/em>during the week.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThe raw number of injuries are basically the same but the concern is in the ACLs, there is significantly higher ACLs in women\u2019s footy than there is in men\u2019s footy and there is double the rate of concussion.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIt\u2019s only one season, so we don\u2019t have a big enough sample size to really say what the true numbers are. We probably need five or 10 years.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThe first year of stats, they\u2019re saying concussion is the biggest issue in men\u2019s footy, and arguably a bigger issue in women\u2019s footy.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cDouble the rate\u201d of concussion in AFLW: McClure | <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4Xx16CXxuH\">https:\/\/t.co\/4Xx16CXxuH<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFLW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFLW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X5tcTpRusX\">pic.twitter.com\/X5tcTpRusX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; 1116 SEN Footy (@SENfooty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SENfooty\/status\/923747754056171520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AFLW currently reports \u201csignificantly higher\u201d numbers of ACL injuries and double the concussion rate of the men\u2019s league. Melbourne footy reporter Sam McClure has revealed the numbers, which are expected to be released in full in the next few weeks. \u201cThey\u2019ve scaled it out because the seasons are different lengths,\u201d McClure told SEN during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-13292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shocking Stat Revealed About AFL Women\u2019s Competition - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/shocking-stat-revealed-about-afl-women-s-competition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shocking Stat Revealed About AFL Women\u2019s Competition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The AFLW currently reports \u201csignificantly higher\u201d numbers of ACL injuries and double the concussion rate of the men\u2019s league. 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