Origin women to be paid the same as men

[Salvatori Grubber]

Read Ism’s response up thread.

[King Salvo]

Is the NRLW part of or an addition to to broadcast deals?

I have no problem with it myself and a 3 game series is the way to go.

I imagine the NRL's ultimate goal is for all NRL clubs to have a Women's side plus pathway sides - Development squads (12 to 14's ) / Junior Reps - Under 16's, 18's,20's and Reserve grade which of course will require ongoing investment from both NRL clubs and the NRL.

Some of the posters remarks above are akin to 19th century thinking - it's the 21st century folk

[Monaco's Fan Club]

Great to hear

[Johnny Tobin]

Shouldn’t be.

[Easts75]

Think they get the same in Tennis but play 3 sets ??

Think they get the same in Surfing.but dont surf the heavy breaks

[Roosterfarian]

How about this for a hypothetical?

Say us boys here on the chookpen forum decide to start our own Aussie Men’s netball team. We go for about 6-12 months but still nowhere near the girls in terms of interest, skills, revenue generated etc etc. We rock up to the Netballing federation and demand we get the same pay as the girls.

How do you think that would go down? Do you think the women’s team would be supportive? Do you think it’s fair that we get the same as them? I certainly don’t think so.

[Batemans Bay Rooster]

Not a single woman will take up the sport because women Origin players get paid $30k a game. But if all that money was instead spent on grass roots development of the women's game, they would indeed get more women playing. So not only is it pathetic PC posturing, it's a dumb way to spend the money.

[milanja]

Not a single woman will take up the sport because women Origin players get paid $30k a game. But if all that money was instead spent on grass roots development of the women's game, they would indeed get more women playing. So not only is it pathetic PC posturing, it's a dumb way to spend the money.

Pretty sure it’s 15k a game, for the men also since they took the covid pay cut, also half of the mens money went towards some sort of superannuation set up.

[Thirteen]

Women have vaginas so they should be applauded simply for this.

[Fourteen]

Ridiculous! The womens game is very slow and boring to watch.

[Rooster_6]

I think if you're looking at budget allocation for the women's game currently there's so many better places that money could be invested.

Increasing the number of teams in the NRLW, increasing the length of the season and investing in elite junior pathways for young women would be money much better spent.

If you want to give away money how about paying all the women who had their season cancelled this year?

[Batemans Bay Rooster]

It's a bit like Vlandys increasing the prize money of the manufactured Golden Rose from $7.5mill to $8mill, an increase that will attract zero additional interest in that already overvalued joke race, when that extra $500K could have been spent so much better at lower levels.

[King Salvo]

Ridiculous! The womens game is very slow and boring to watch.

Have you watched these games though or any other of the Women's games in the other comps - Tarsha Gale and Harvey Norman NSW Women's Premiership for instance .- Don't think many on here would be putting their hands up to run the ball up and be tackled by Hannah Southwell too often if at all

It will be like the WBBL the players will improve significantly as they become more and more professional - the object is to finance them including the juniors and pathways

[King Salvo]

Not a single woman will take up the sport because women Origin players get paid $30k a game. But if all that money was instead spent on grass roots development of the women's game, they would indeed get more women playing. So not only is it pathetic PC posturing, it's a dumb way to spend the money.

mmm the Men's money could be spent the same way as well in that case - Country rugby league is doing it really tough and could use some financial help

My old Junior Club East Campbelltown Eagles (biggest junior club in the Macarthur Wests Tigers Juniors) with close to 1000 juniors is very fortunate to have a stack of sponsors and folk on the ground doing a stack of unpaid work during the week and on match days - without them they would really struggle.

The Mighty Eagles are back in the revamped Macarthur Group 6 Conference comp and will field teams in Under 18's- men and women sides/3rd Grade/Second Division/Reserve Grade/1st Grade and a Women's Open Comp team - under 6's to under 16's including under 12/14/16's girls sides will play in the Campbelltown-Liverpool local comp.

East Campbelltown Eagles then Campbelltown Eagles were controversially kicked out of the Group 6 comp in 2013 (defending premiers ) for breaching the player points system which was introduced at the start of 2013 to so call even the comp up .

Since they changed their name to Campbelltown Eagles the players even though most were local juniors were not classed as this as Campbelltown Eagles was deemed a new club existing for only 2 years - if a local junior for that club 0 points are allocated to those players - if an import first season 5 points are allocated against that player / second 4 points/ 3rd 3 points and so on

I think 30 points was the max for each game per team - the Eagles players would attract 3 points each - 51 points for 17 players as all deemed 3rd year import players.

https://www.macarthuradvertiser.com....t-of-the-comp/

[Nicola Tesla]

Why does anybody care regardless....it's not our money or our decision. Maybe the NRL see that paying more will improve the female game and generate more female interest which will ultimately flow through to the NRL and junior leagues?

I'm sure they can afford it and not at the expense of other investments...or maybe they see this as a sum gain investment for the long haul?