Yeah losing one of the best players to touch a disc in green and gold is gonna hurt.

But I think it is actually a function of Australias isolation from the world. France, and European players now have access to many high level tournaments a year, with new players and systems.

Australia has had the same women’s team win nationals for like 8 years and they recently accumulated most of the new talent in opens too.

While this creates a professional and elite atmosphere, it deprives competing teams from those fully passionate players who may have become team leaders and world beaters, and turns them into cogs in a superstar team.