Australian women’s rugby leaders call for the Super W competition to expand and join forces with New Zealand and Japan to stay competitive with the NRLW.
With improved financial terms, the NRLW has become a significant threat to Super W clubs for talent.
Rugby Australia has announced they will pay 35 elite players on part-time contracts, with Super W players getting $4000, and some states will bump that up by $1000 to $3000.
Waratahs coach Campbell Aitken believes building up Super W into the female equivalent of Super Rugby Pacific, with teams from New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, and beyond, is the first step to strengthening Australian women’s rugby.
Aitken believes playing a domestic-only competition is not the platform needed to give Wallaroos the best chance to compete.
Wallaroos and Queensland captain Shannon Parry believes emphasising rugby’s international opportunities is a valuable tool.
Talks with NZR about joining forces in a women’s Super Rugby competition have been encouraging.
The next step is to invest in high-performance systems around it and maybe go to one and a half or two rounds so they have more volume and content.
Super W captains are hopeful for an improved Super W structure and, at a point in the season, have a crossover with the Kiwis.
An extended, trans-Tasman women’s Super Rugby competition could generate broadcast revenue, feeding back into the game.
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