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Owen’s Opinions: Here’s to the Women in Rugby League
The contribution women have made and continue to make to rugby league is enormous and we should also recognise the massive connection to Indigenous Australian women too, says premiership-winning former player and Over the Black Dot co-host Owen Craigie.
It’s the 10th year of the NRL’s Women in League round and what a thing to celebrate.
It’s grown so much and Women in League over the last two to three years has really skyrocketed and it’s a great thing - we’ve got a lot of young girls playing the game of Rugby League today and it gives them aspirations to one day play NRL.
But also for all the mums and other women that enjoy the game and are at the local grounds on the weekends – setting up the canteen and cleaning up after the kids, cooking the food and dropping the boys and girls at sport all around the country.
I just think it’s great that Women in League are being recognised and it’s a big thank you for everyone else and all the women that are in league and are involved in this great game to keep going.
The connection to Indigenous Australians is massive too.
Indigenous Women in League
The women’s Rugby League at the Koori Knockout is the biggest spectacle of the Koori Knockout, and it has been for the last 10 or 12 years, since women’s Rugby League came into the tournament.
The Knockout’s in Dubbo this year. Pop down and have a look and you’ll see for yourself, but the Friday and Saturday competitions are bigger than the men’s competition.
It’s grown so much and now there’s up around 30 or 40 women’s team in the Koori Knockout. So you think about that and then representing the whole state of NSW and representing over 100 communities, just this way with the women’s competition.
The revolution happening on the field, the driver of that really has been from women’s Indigenous Rugby League.
Women’s Rugby League, and lot of people may not agree with me, but I’m certain that women’s Rugby League has grown in status so much in this country because of the Koori Knockout. It stems from the Koori Knockout and with the ripple effect it’s just got bigger and bigger.
Caitlin Moran and all these young girls stepped onto the scene in the national women’s competitions and they were steppin left and right and chip’n and chasing, throwing spiral balls left and right. Ten or 12 years ago in the Koori Knockout people in pubs and clubs and homes all around the country were going: ‘Oh wow this is great, we want to see more women and big hits’.
More: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2018/08/07/owens-opinions-heres-women-rugby-league
The contribution women have made and continue to make to rugby league is enormous and we should also recognise the massive connection to Indigenous Australian women too, says premiership-winning former player and Over the Black Dot co-host Owen Craigie.
It’s the 10th year of the NRL’s Women in League round and what a thing to celebrate.
It’s grown so much and Women in League over the last two to three years has really skyrocketed and it’s a great thing - we’ve got a lot of young girls playing the game of Rugby League today and it gives them aspirations to one day play NRL.
But also for all the mums and other women that enjoy the game and are at the local grounds on the weekends – setting up the canteen and cleaning up after the kids, cooking the food and dropping the boys and girls at sport all around the country.
I just think it’s great that Women in League are being recognised and it’s a big thank you for everyone else and all the women that are in league and are involved in this great game to keep going.
The connection to Indigenous Australians is massive too.
Indigenous Women in League
The women’s Rugby League at the Koori Knockout is the biggest spectacle of the Koori Knockout, and it has been for the last 10 or 12 years, since women’s Rugby League came into the tournament.
The Knockout’s in Dubbo this year. Pop down and have a look and you’ll see for yourself, but the Friday and Saturday competitions are bigger than the men’s competition.
It’s grown so much and now there’s up around 30 or 40 women’s team in the Koori Knockout. So you think about that and then representing the whole state of NSW and representing over 100 communities, just this way with the women’s competition.
The revolution happening on the field, the driver of that really has been from women’s Indigenous Rugby League.
Women’s Rugby League, and lot of people may not agree with me, but I’m certain that women’s Rugby League has grown in status so much in this country because of the Koori Knockout. It stems from the Koori Knockout and with the ripple effect it’s just got bigger and bigger.
Caitlin Moran and all these young girls stepped onto the scene in the national women’s competitions and they were steppin left and right and chip’n and chasing, throwing spiral balls left and right. Ten or 12 years ago in the Koori Knockout people in pubs and clubs and homes all around the country were going: ‘Oh wow this is great, we want to see more women and big hits’.
More: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2018/08/07/owens-opinions-heres-women-rugby-league
