Women V Men in Rugby !

Men V Women !

Edited by No 7 - 28 Mar 2022 at 15:38

I believe most men including U18`s or U20`s would find it very difficult to play to their real ability and muster the aggression and intensity that they play at in their usual rugby match. Most men I believe would hold back . However tongue in cheek you think Brian Moore is being is it a ridiculous suggestion or is it in this modern day the next level of `Equality` we are gradually moving towards ?.

Careful No7 you're inching towards shutdown😂😂

Edited by Thatbloke - 28 Mar 2022 at 18:05

Back in 1990, my club were on tour in Edmonton, Canada. The Canadian women's team were having a scheduled training session (very difficult and rare back then because of the distances involved) and we were asked to provide opposition. We opted for backs in the forwards and forwards in the backs with no pushing at scrums. 

islander wrote: I've read the Moore article in the Telegraph and feel his suggestion is a slightly tongue-in-cheek way of illustrating the point he's making, which is that England Red Roses are in a difficult position because of the dearth of serious opposition. Investment is needed by other unions, he argues, or the ability of the women's game to develop & realise its potential will be compromised. At the end he says: 'If England Women cannot find the sort of physical and technical challenge that they need in ordinary fixtures against conventional opponents, they should look to see if it is possible to have structured training sessions and games against England u18 or u20 teams. 'Purists might balk and in an ideal world, where every tier one union valued and invested in women's rugby, this would not be necessary. Until then, they might have to be creative.' Personally I think matches would be wrong, but trialling some form of structured training could be worthwhile...

I played basketball for about 10 years in America, and I was not good enough to even be in the game day squad in our small town's team (seriously a 600 person village). However when I went to Uni I played fairly regular pick-up games (making teams from whoever was around the gym). One day, I was on a side with four other guys, none of who were especially tall. When we won our game 21-18, a bunch of really tall women called next. It turned out that we were facing half of the University women's team. These were all fully scholarship holding young women on at a 40000 person university...and all of them were taller than our tallest player. We butchered them 21-12. On the plus side, we got invited to a party at their house afterward...which is not a story that I will share here.

gerg_861 wrote: I played basketball for about 10 years in America, and I was not good enough to even be in the game day squad in our small town's team (seriously a 600 person village). However when I went to Uni I played fairly regular pick-up games (making teams from whoever was around the gym). One day, I was on a side with four other guys, none of who were especially tall. When we won our game 21-18, a bunch of really tall women called next. It turned out that we were facing half of the University women's team. These were all fully scholarship holding young women on at a 40000 person university...and all of them were taller than our tallest player. We butchered them 21-12. On the plus side, we got invited to a party at their house afterward...which is not a story that I will share here.

Ridiculous idea, what happens if a U20 comes in and knocks out or hospitalises one of the females.

In Australia (Brisbane to be exact) I watched my offspring compete at Netball, where mixed teams were allowed. The ruling was that 2 males were allowed within the team of 7 players. No quarters were asked or given.