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    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-...dling/10898160

    NRL's female fans dwindling as it deals with 'off-season from hell'

    Marina Go was staggered when she realised the sheer volume of sex videos of rugby league players doing the rounds on social media.
    The former chairwoman of the Wests Tigers remembers how the moment came in a casual conversation last year with one of the club's coaches.

    "He said to me, 'Marina, there's a library of them. There's a library of them'. I was horrified," Ms Go said.

    While she is at pains to point out the coach was not talking about the Wests Tigers players, that moment of realisation — and many others since — have left her exhausted.

    "You reach a point where you don't feel like you can make a difference anymore."

    After four years with the club, Ms Go this week walked away from her role as chair. There are now no women on the board.

    In her case, the fight for change was about respect for women in rugby league — and the brick wall was a reinforced edifice three layers thick.

    [She pointed to a lack of action by the NRL, the attitude of clubs and the seemingly never-ending stream of players facing court for offences against women.

    The final straw was a dawning realisation she was losing the battle against deep-seated attitudes among the men in the game.


    "I just looked around and I thought the numbers of women are dwindling, not growing."

    But rugby league's women problem is not just at the top.

    After the recent spate of sex tapes — and what even the game's chairman Peter Beattie described as "the off-season from hell" — there are growing fears the game is losing the battle for the hearts and minds of female fans.


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    Oh dear, where do I start?

    Maybe y'all would like to start for me.
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