Source: pushingrubberdownhill.com --- Sunday, September 04, 2016
have you heard of any of us? no? give us money then! The amusing thing about the following saga is how depressingly predictable it is. So one of the latest fads in Australia is women’s sport. To whit, sports that are traditionally played by men on a large stage, (think cricket, rugby and Australian rules football), are now bending over backwards to suddenly develop and launch fledgling women’s competitions. The primary motivation for this can be summed up with The Equalities! There is no demand for these sports on the part of spectators. In fact they will be starting from zero while competing against sports that have been played before crowds for over a hundred years. It took a while for men to be paid to play their sports on a national level. Australian cricketers in the national team had to apply to their employers, (they all had to work full time real jobs as they weren’t paid), for dispensation to get extra leave to go on overseas tours. Cricketers didn’t start getting decent money until the 80s. Australian rules football, (AFL), while not played on an international level, still followed a similar pattern. Players in the 50s and 60s, who played before huge crowds were paid a pittance. Clubs enticed top country players to move to the city with the promise of finding them a full-time job. This document makes interesting reading as it details the payment systems in place and the extraordinary back and forth that went on between ...
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