Not wanting to sound like a white supremascist, but something needs to be done about polyneysians in the junior ranks of the game. They are quite frankly, bashing the lighter whiter, less physically mature kids out of the game. To keep white kids, who represent the majority of the population and therefore the most important commercial market in the game, we need action to be taken. I coach juniors in SE QLD, and in our under twelves team we are split 50/50 polyneysian/ caucasian. But our polyneysian kids are huge, we have a couple who would be realistically pushing 100kg and a few more at around 80kg, which is monstrous for a twelve year old. We all like to crow about the parra/ penrith junior bases but they are now 50% polyneysian. This is not a a bad thing in that so many young polyneysian kids are playing rugby league, what is bad is they are destroying the will of your average 50kg white twelve year old to play the greatest game of all. Parra and penriths juniors have always been this size, but until recently they were probably 80% caucasian with a smattering of all different races thrown in, so in essence we have lost roughly 2000 kids from the heyday. If these kids were still playing along with their polyneysian friends, this would be great for rugby legaue.
My thoughts immediatly turn to age weight categories until say 15, when caucasians start to mature to the polyneysians level, touch and oz tag spring to mind as well. Above all rules have to be made so that we encourage both polynesian and caucasian to play rugby league.
My thoughts immediatly turn to age weight categories until say 15, when caucasians start to mature to the polyneysians level, touch and oz tag spring to mind as well. Above all rules have to be made so that we encourage both polynesian and caucasian to play rugby league.
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