Monday’s Rugby Information – 21/8/23

In at this time’s information, we’ll recap the weekend gone with rugby outcomes and ladies’s rugby in Australia getting the identical outdated therapy from the outdated boys’ membership.

You’ll have seen that Inexperienced & Gold Rugby has been offered by Matt Rowley to Ponderosa Publishing. Because the identify suggests, which means the not too long ago departed group of writers, who shaped their very own website just a few months in the past, might be getting back from subsequent week because the house owners of Inexperienced & Gold Rugby. So, for the second time this yr, it seems that I’ll be hanging up my G&GR whistle, playing cards and pocket book and head off into the good rugby unknown. The fact is that I can’t undergo the entire course of once more contemplating how the final revolt unfolded. If I wasn’t wished then, I doubt I’ll be wished now. The fact is that, for a very long time, writing for G&GR was like a Wallaby jersey – it’s not yours in perpetuity; one is just a custodian of the location. Beneath new possession, I don’t know if this would be the case.

My greatest and plenty of because of Newtta, GoldyLocks, Par4Course, The Masked Avenger and Blindside Bludger who stepped up and wrote some actually fascinating articles within the final month or so. With out you, G&GR would doubtless have light into the space. Anyway, that’s sufficient from me. I want the Inexperienced & Gold Rugby effectively, however for now and certain ever, it’s farewell.

SUMMER NATIONS SERIES RESULTS

Eire 29 def England 10 – match report right here

Additional studying concerning the ‘Depths of Despair’ going through the Cleaning soap Dodgers and their new teaching regime led by Steve “Boring Rugby” Borthwick will be discovered right here. Lengthy story brief is that, have been the Wallabies to face the Poms within the RWC, I definitely wouldn’t be as apprehensive as I might be with, say, Argentina. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see what occurs with Billy Vunipola after he went ‘Full Faz’ and bought himself doubtless just a few weeks’ break, too.

France 34 def Fiji 17 – match report right here

A weakened French aspect bought the job executed towards the Fijians. That being mentioned, the Fijians might be significantly better for the run. Be careful!

South Africa 52 def Wales 16 – match report right here

Issues wanting good for the Boks. However, the Welsh are wanting like they’re in hassle. No less than with the Wallabies, I can see enchancment.

Italy 57 def Romania 7 – match report right here

If Romania are getting pantsed by the Italians, then I worry they’re in for a really lengthy RWC contemplating they’re within the ‘Pool of Loss of life’ with South Africa, Scotland, Eire and Tonga to play. Pending outcomes, ‘For and In opposition to’ might be a helpful stat.

Georgia 22 def USA 7 – match report right here

Undoubtedly a giant sport approaching for each Wales and Australia. On their day, Georgia might effectively be hassle. How good for rugby although!*

*until the Wobs lose… then that’s very dangerous.

Samoa 28 def Barbarians XV 14 – match report right here

Uruguay 33 def Argentina XV 13 – match report right here

YOUR MOVE, RUGBY AUSTRALIA

As soon as once more, RA have allowed the advertising pigeon to utterly misinterpret the room and put up a (since deleted) video of the WAGs of the lads’s aspect allegedly residing it up on the RA greenback previous to the departure of the Wallabies.

Now, I noticed the video earlier than it was deleted, and it was so tone deaf that I sat there in shock that even RA might be so f*cking silly. I imply, I ought to count on this from an organisation that may’t even write a correct employment contract, however nonetheless. This is identical organisation that would have purchased contact soccer in Australia. However they didn’t, and it’s since gone to the NRL. This is identical organisation that would’ve blown NRLW out of the water earlier than it even began. However they didn’t. Now, a few of the most marketable names (assume Emma Tonegato and Charlotte Caslick as examples) and beforehand up and coming gamers, a few of whom (like Grace Kemp) have had over 10 years’ price of rugby union improvement put into them, going to play NRLW both completely or on aspect hustles. That is the organisation that has had a functioning girls’s aspect (albeit just about completely beginner) and going to WRWCs for greater than 20 years. Guess what? Completely nothing has occurred. That is the organisation that misplaced a serious sponsor, BuildCorp, when RA didn’t create a girls’s NRC in 2017. You’d have thought that they’d have discovered at the least one thing. Alas, clearly not. I might go so far as to say that is Phil Waugh’s first failure as CEO of Rugby Australia.

Wanting on the success of the Matildas (each on and off-field, to say I couldn’t care much less about soccer can be an understatement. Certainly, soccer basically is on par with my care issue because the Waratahs are. However I used to be nonetheless swept up within the “Tilly fever” as a lot as the following particular person. On prime of the success, what was noticeable was the fervour that was spoken about for ladies’s sports activities. At morning gymnasium periods the discussions of ladies’s sport have been a breath of recent air. That ladies and women of all ages have been in a position to share within the celebration and success story of this world cup will each increase soccer in Australia for a decade and, doubtless, price rugby in a technique or one other in the beginning of their very own ‘Golden Decade’. Until the problems which might be so blindingly current within the girls’s sport are sorted earlier than the top of the yr, then rugby will discover itself on one more precipice on this nation. Clearly this stage of goodwill hasn’t fairly reached the Jap Suburbs of Sydney, the place all focus is on the Shite Defend finals and fuq all the things else.

To say that I used to be delighted that Rugby Australia was referred to as out by just about the whole girls’s rugby aspect is, once more, an understatement. See under:

A number of the names within the girls’s sport sharing this put up embody the present Wallaroos captain, Piper Duck, and former captain, Shellie Millward. Millward mentioned on Instagram, “the expertise I’ve watched stroll out and in of rugby as a result of method our feminine sport and athletes are handled… Our sport needs to be valued and marketed, not a sub-par field ticking train for you.”

Alicia Quirk on Instagram says, “The very first thing I considered throughout this FIFA World Cup was that (RA) have to make use of each single person who was concerned to have the identical impact for the 15s WRWC in 2029. RA can’t afford to overlook one other alternative to propel with girls’s sport ahead.”

Allanah Ferguson says, “There’s a WRWC in 2029, loads of time to take a position and make a huge effect earlier than we host on dwelling soil. all of us had the privilege of experiencing the constructive results for the Matildas, time to encourage mini rugby heads!

Don’t overlook that, for most ladies, enjoying rugby past clubland normally prices them a fortune. See this article from just a few seasons in the past.

TL;DR – do higher, RA.

CM – out.

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