Gordon wrote on Feb 21
st, 2018 at 7:32am:
If you rate men and women on a spectrum of physicality most probably sit somewhere in the middle.
The women at the extreme end of the scale can probably beat many normal men, but men in professional sport are usually not your average bloke. They're the ones at the extreme end of the male spectrum.
Ronda Rousey would leave me a bloody pulp of meat but put her against Mike Tyson.. LAWL.
Sure, open everything up for anyone to have a crack as long as there are no compromises and no expectations of equal outcomes.
Where size and strength matter they would get thrashed and possibly seriously injured. Even with my tennis example only about 5% or less of the women comp players at the A-grade level would have a chance ..... might be higher in the lower grades.
At the ATP level Serena Williams would struggle to make the top 200 she can hit the ball hard but she is slow around the court .... that is the major difference. Go watch a few live matches and that point will become obvious ...... then there is the service power 200kph is good for a female .... slow in the male game. Very few females can cope with a screaming baseline shot at the net. With live tennis I often prefer to watch the women, beyond the great legs you can actually see the ball, I am amazed at how hard the top tennis players can hit ball.
On contact sports like Rugby and NRL its not even worth having the conversation.
Our Uni Rugby squad had an open training session where we invited all the women associated with the club and women from other sports associations to join in the training session. Very few of them lasted .... and that was before the contact drills. In fact many of them borrowed a few rugby players to run their training drills for their training sessions.
My philosophy on a lot of things is to allow self correction.
If women want in on the NRL, let it be and lets see how many are keen after the very first NRL 1st grade tackling drills