'Natural discrepancy between male and female athletes.' This coach has upset a few people in the game. 9WWOS
That led to Middleton offering a solution due to the lack of "power" in the women's game, when speaking to reporters this week."If a try is scored [within five metres of the touchline], the option should be there, maybe not to bring it into the 15-metre line, but maybe 10 metres from the touchline.
"I think that could impact the game and change it positively. I think it is a bit of an unfair game for female kickers because so much about goal-kicking relies on power."You want to be rewarded for good skill and hard practice and I don't think they get rewarded because of physical constraints that come with what we know is a natural discrepancy between male and female athletes.
"The biggest thing for me is we have fought for so long and so hard for equality in women's sport in general - not just rugby - and we've still got such a long way to go. I understand where he's coming from, in a sense, but we don't put women's soccer players on a smaller pitch."Waratahs women's coach Aitken said: "I wouldn't like to see it come in … I think it is a bit of a slap in the face for the girls.
"I think AFL has a bigger problem than we do around attractiveness of the game. No one has complained in Super W that conversions aren't going over."
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