I want to give some context to the Australian Football League for Women.
It was created very recently to give women the opportunity to play football. In Australia, "Aussie Rules" Football is a religion that dominates a lot of people's lives. It's even how you learn maths in primary school - you have to have a team, there's no choice.
On the 'rugby' thing, it's not as brutal as rugby, which has a lot of Islanders and quite thickset men playing it (don't know much about it to be honest, it's more of a NSW/QLD sport). However, it does have contact. Men crash into each other, particularly when they all leap for the ball. Nowadays, AFL footballers tend to be enormously tall and muscly. It's obvious when you see one out jogging or whatever. They stand out with their physique.
AFL is also deeply sexist. Only ten or twelve years ago there was a ruckus because a woman was going to be allowed to be a commentator, calling a game (within a group of men). I remember hearing outraged calls to the radio about how women just don't understand the game properly, and radio DJs seriously discussing her merits. A Fairfax football journalist, Caroline something or other, has been personally attacked. There's a repellent former footballer called Sam Newman (famous for having a giant picture of Pamela Anderson's breasts on his house) who is on a mainstream TV show called 'the Footy Show'. He got a mannequin with Caroline's face on it and punched it. The audience loved it. The CEO of a TV channel, Eddie McGuire, was discussing her with a group of other men on the radio and said he'd like to drown her (I think, or she deserved to be drowned, or killed, can't remember). Of course, when it was raised he dismissed this as light hearted banter, and all the men weighed in saying things like, if she can't stand the heat, she needs to get out of the kitchen etc, men banter, get over it, and implying that she was the one with the problem.
AFL footballers are often in the news for domestic violence and rape allegations. There is an entrenched culture of women-as-decorations.
Another issue is the AFL tribunal which meets to rule on misdemeanours on the field. It seems like every week someone is up for punching a player during a fracas. So there is a lot of aggression from some players.
Girls have grown up often kicking footballs with their brothers and schoolmates. Men and women are footy fans in equal proportions. I remember girls wanting to play football in primary school at lunchtime and not being allowed to by the boys, and them kicking up a fuss. Finally, the AFLW was created not long ago to give opportunities to women to play professionally. It's been going really well, except for when THAT newspaper (that printed this article - Murdoch's) for example refused to put the grand final result on their cover and instead had some men's football article instead. Women have finally clawed a space in the league and it's being taken over by second rate men.
And for what it's worth, that contributor earlier who asked whether they would be allowed to play women's sport at 115 kilograms. No, you wouldn't, because you sound unhealthily overweight.