A top Australian player admitted that Wallarous was “playing from a weak position” after New Zealand’s women’s World Cup lead swallowed up their 17-point lead.
Consistent in the Australian back row since her debut in 2018, Emily Chancellor said the chasm between the Australians’ amateur programs and their full-time counterparts was no excuse to let Australia fall back at Eden Park for their opening pool match.
But the 31-year-old said there is no escaping the reality of funding differences across Tier 1 countries.
“If you look at the way we played at the beginning of the year, the way we played [on Saturday]You can see that in the short time we’ve spent together, we’ve developed a good team,” said the chancellor.
“You look at it and you go ‘holy smoke, if we had more resources and he looked at that full-time option, like the other teams we’re competing against, of course we’d be more competitive against New Zealand’.” We had 30 minutes against a professional team where we were completely in control of the match and then their professionalism came in and they beat us. We are playing from a weak position.
“We wouldn’t use it as something to advocate for or as an excuse, but it’s the reality of women’s rugby here and the differences around the world in terms of the investment (the National Leagues) they make in the game.”
Emily Chancellor in a match against New Zealand in the Australia match at the Rugby World Cup.attributed to him:GT
Rugby Australia has been criticized for neglecting the women’s XV programmes, which consists of competing Wallaroos and Super W, placing it last in pressing funding priorities. Andy Marinos, RA’s chief executive, last week gambled on a three-year time frame to appoint a professionally contracted national team, which means the Wallaroos will go to the next World Cup, in England in 2025, in the same position.
Surveying the programs offered by the top ten countries in the world is frustrating for reading characterized by extremism. On one side is England, the richest league in the world and the first to offer players full-time contracts. RFU pays top-ranked red roses between $39,000 and $58,000 annually for their participation in England.
Originally published at Melbourne News Vine
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