The Wallabies and Wallaroos are set to feature in historic back-to-back rugby Test double-headers against New Zealand in Sydney and Auckland in August.
The first one at ANZ Stadium on Saturday, August 11, will mark the first time the Australian women’s team has played a double-header fixture with the Wallabies on Australian soil.
The teams will then travel to Auckland for the second leg of trans-Tasman Tests, where they will play at Eden Park on Saturday, August 18.
More to come.
Gerry
Roar Rookie
I have not done enough research on it and I am not sure I want to if complex political wrangling is involved as it is inevitably. However I feel that women’s sports are getting more popular and more exposure, slowly but surely. Top female athletes like Jessica Ennis, Ellyse Perry, Sam Kerr and Sally Pearson as well as the success of the women’s cricket team, netball team and soccer team are really getting higher profiles and generating excitement from the public. My step daughter is just starting to get involved in sports and netball and it would be fabulous to see her progress as she has never been a sporty person. it may be a pipe dream but it would be absolutely radical if there could be a world competition featuring all the major field world sports such as soccer, rugby 7’s, shortened version of Twenty20 cricket, (Ten ten as played in the UAE recently) hockey, basketball, volleyball, netball and baseball with the AFLW and perhaps American football being invitational sports to spread their coverage. With no single game being longer than an hour and held in a neutral seasonal month such as September for both hemispheres to participate. It could be called something like the Pan60 Women’s Games. (60 referring to 60 mins) Of course all the formalities and details would need to be fleshed out but it would be a bold move and I guess people are just going to ridicule it. Anyway it’s just a thought. If it worked though, you can bet the men’s competition would gladly follow. As a man I would not care if the women got there first and indeed would applaud it. What do you reckon? Or should I just crawl back into my hole. Haha.I am serious though. It would really help to propel women’s sports into the place it should be now.