Rowey said on Wednesday:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe big news yesterday, Crows AFLW co-captain Chelsea Randall tore her ACL at Crows first training session — she\u2019s out for a year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat makes it four ACLs for the Crows since March.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m telling you girls just aren\u2019t designed to play AFL.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Will Goodings wasn\u2019t so sure…<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you want to make that case you\u2019re saying that girls shouldn\u2019t play sport,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve spoken to a physio about this. Women do ACLs at a higher rate than men on the basis of how weight\u2019s distributed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWider pelvises means the weight\u2019s not distributed through the knees as evenly as in men, so that means in all sports — the risks are the same across all sports. Also men have a physiological issue with Achilles and problems like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
ROWEY: <\/strong>\u201cI knew I\u2019d say this and people would jump on me. I\u2019ve spoken to doctors — you\u2019re right, they have a wider pelvis, it bows their legs, it makes them naturally nine times more likely to do a knee injury in AFL.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re the early facts. I\u2019m saying as a dad of two girls, someone that\u2019s done an ACL playing football, I\u2019d be steering my girls away 100mph from AFL\u2026 it\u2019s a health and safety issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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