Coach Glenn Moore resigns after Black Ferns review, rejects allegations
Black Ferns coach Glenn Moore has resigned, but rejects “misleading” allegations from a player which ultimately sparked a review into the culture and environment of the New Zealand women’s rugby side.
Moore said social media post allegations from hooker Te Kura Ngata-Aerengamate on their Northern Hemisphere tour late last year were misleading, and he did not agree with them.
The culture review was initiated after Te Kura Ngata-Aerengamate said she had a “mental breakdown” on the tour because of Moore’s alleged critical comments.
Look.
I don’t care about rugby.
I get that you all love it and I’ve resigned myself to living amongst people who think kicking, catching and running with a ball equates to the greatest of human achievements.
I don’t hold Rugby in that same esteem.
I don’t hold sports stars up as personal heroes because my heroes are thinkers, artists, writers and revolutionaries.
Don’t get me wrong.
I appreciate the physical skill to kick, catch and run with a ball, but in the totality of human achievement, kicking, catching and running with a ball was something our caveman ancestors did after a successful hunt and sing song around the fire after dark.
It’s not exactly rocket science, art or poetry is it?
So in short, I don’t give a flying fuck about rugby.
I’ll watch the Rugby World Cup and I might watch a test match, but I couldn’t tell you who any of the players are, or the club games or even the basic rules.
So if I don’t care about mens rugby, it would be wrong to care about women’s rugby as well.
Which beings me to the current furore engulfing NZ Womens rugby.
I make the following comments as someone who doesn’t care about rugby in any way shape or form.
The biggest issue between Glenn Moore and the Black Ferns is a culture shift.
The Black Ferns are millennials who have grown up in their ‘everyone is special’ easily triggered snowflake world where their feelings trump everything else.
Because being rational, reasonable and logical are all heteronormative cis male tricks to prop up the patriarchy, social media posts where you go on and on about your mental health well being and your f-e-e-l-i-n-g-s are the only cultural currency now and nothing else matters.
So a social media post filled with self pity and f-e-e-l-i-n-g-s has trashed the reputation of Glenn Moore and burnt all bridges.
You can change as much ‘culture’ as you like, but when aggrieved players can simply write social media posts and destroy reputations because of their f-e-e-l-i-n-g-s, it won’t stop this happening over and over and over again.
This is the age of subjective rage and women’s sports has to be as aggressively promoted as militant cycling and curt te reo pronunciation correction.
The lesson here is simply not to engage with anyone under 40.
Sometimes a cup of harden the fuck up is actually the best recommendation.
Again, I need to state this really, really, really clearly.
I don’t care about rugby.
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Yep, rugby is as boring as bat shit, no matter what the gender.
That womans rugby is having a meltdown will not surprise most. Does a bear shit in the woods? But all the howling at the moon wont make people follow it anymore than forcing people to be interested in men’s rhythmic gymnastics. The game is purely about profit, does your product generate interest that translate to earnings? No? Then get real and get another job!
Or play woman’s volleyball…but please, only if the cloth fits!
Anyway rugby is a dirty violent game which nice girls shouldn’t be playing. Anybody can be dirty and violent, and being paid to be that way is downright ridiculous. Sad if it hurts their feelings too, but life’s like that.
Really, who the fuck cares?
That this topic fills time in the 6pm News tells us a lot about media
Amen.
Sometimes a cup of harden the fuck up is actually the best recommendation.
Whatever the ins-and-outs, the group that wanted blood on the floor got a crucifixion on Good Friday with the coach done and dusted.
Few years back Porsche Williams, winger and caption of the Girl Blacks won over all New Zealand Player of the year beating the next best All Black winger by two international tries and Porsche only got 2% compensation and her salary remains relative. That’s taking the piss. I’m not saying the girls should get paid the same as the boys, but the girls still require professional salaries. Anyone who truly loves the game want more people playing to the highest standards.
Frankly Martyn, who gives a shit about a part of the game that’s only purpose is to generate profit.
Only someone who truly hates masculinity would want their wages slashed.
Gee I don’t know Shady, may be someone who sees it as a genuine career option?
Rubbish. All divisions are equally important as the next because you never know which division will be on top of their respective sport. I’m just so sick of watching the best female entertainment sports athletes compete in Grand Finals consistently injured strapped up, stitches or worse and y’all kick back wondering why woman’s divisions are financially limited. Just wonderful y’know? True genius.
It looks like we can raise the skill level of woman’s rugby without a correlating wage increase. The next best thing is to match skill level with nutrition. So that’s how we can measure quility and quintity to test equility.
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