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<blockquote data-quote="big ginger 8" data-source="post: 931143" data-attributes="member: 53057"><p>America have actually had much more success in women's rugby than in mens, having won the inaugural women's world cup coming second twice and never failing to qualify for it.</p><p></p><p>In terms of mixed sides it's pretty much never going to happen at professional level. There's a reason testosterone is used as a PED and men obviously produce far more of it than women. It does happen at mini's level at least in Ireland as there's usually not enough girls at one age group to form a women's team and puberty hasn't made it unfair.</p><p></p><p>The only time I've seen mixing at an adult level was when I played in Canada there was one woman who played with the men's teams because she was too good for the women's team as she was a Canadian international in rugby and gridiron. She was very good but even with the rugby being of not a great standard in terms of skill and tactics (it was a university team, where most guys had only played the sport 3 or four years at most) she was still not a guaranteed starter for the A team.</p><p></p><p>In terms of professionalism for the women's game solely there's been some positive steps forward in some countries but some knocks back as well, like the IRFU trying to get rid of professional contracts in a world cup year. I think ultimately it's always going to struggle in comparison to the mens game because it's ultimately not as good a product. The quality isn't as high which means viewership is lower decreasing the amount of money to pay players. There's only so much time most people will spend watching rugby and something has to lose out. It also doesn't help when they do things like schedule the opening 6N game to kick off on a Friday at 5 o'clock. One thing I think they could do is target the crowd who give out about modern rugby and want it to be like the old days because that's what modern women's rugby reminds me of. The game is much less structured and players seem to have more opportunity to try and make something happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="big ginger 8, post: 931143, member: 53057"] America have actually had much more success in women's rugby than in mens, having won the inaugural women's world cup coming second twice and never failing to qualify for it. In terms of mixed sides it's pretty much never going to happen at professional level. There's a reason testosterone is used as a PED and men obviously produce far more of it than women. It does happen at mini's level at least in Ireland as there's usually not enough girls at one age group to form a women's team and puberty hasn't made it unfair. The only time I've seen mixing at an adult level was when I played in Canada there was one woman who played with the men's teams because she was too good for the women's team as she was a Canadian international in rugby and gridiron. She was very good but even with the rugby being of not a great standard in terms of skill and tactics (it was a university team, where most guys had only played the sport 3 or four years at most) she was still not a guaranteed starter for the A team. In terms of professionalism for the women's game solely there's been some positive steps forward in some countries but some knocks back as well, like the IRFU trying to get rid of professional contracts in a world cup year. I think ultimately it's always going to struggle in comparison to the mens game because it's ultimately not as good a product. The quality isn't as high which means viewership is lower decreasing the amount of money to pay players. There's only so much time most people will spend watching rugby and something has to lose out. It also doesn't help when they do things like schedule the opening 6N game to kick off on a Friday at 5 o'clock. One thing I think they could do is target the crowd who give out about modern rugby and want it to be like the old days because that's what modern women's rugby reminds me of. The game is much less structured and players seem to have more opportunity to try and make something happen. [/QUOTE]
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