Ladies’s rugby league trailblazer Ruan Sims disagrees that lopsided video games within the opening two rounds of the NRLW season imply the prevailing expertise pool has been stretched too skinny.
Two weeks into the 2025 season, the competitors has already seen some fairly one-sided video games.
Within the second spherical alone, the Sharks defeated the Raiders 56-6, the Broncos conquered the Titans 44-4, and the Roosters bested the Warriors 30-6.
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Ruan Sims has lengthy advocated for the continued development of the NRLW. 9
With the return of the Warriors following a four-season hiatus and the introduction of the Canterbury Bulldogs there have been issues heading into this season that the growth to 12 groups would threaten the general high quality of the sport.
9’s sideline reporter Marlee Silva has noticed a typical destructive perspective within the feedback sections following the blowout scores and feels compelled to discredit this viewpoint.
“When individuals see these scores, they have an inclination to go straight into, ‘Oh, that is precisely the proof that we have unfold the expertise too skinny and these are boring video games and I am going to change it off’,” she advised 9’s NRLW Weekly podcast.
“I obtained a touch upon a submit concerning the Canberra sport: ‘I turned it off as a result of it was so boring, blah blah blah’.
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“I hate that, and I am questioning how we counter that as a result of it isn’t about groups being horrible.”
Silva believes that when individuals see these high-margin scorelines in isolation, they usually leap to dismiss the league’s high quality.
“I believe that on this case, particularly with the Broncos and the Roosters, they had been simply too good. Like, it is truly about them being too dominant,” she stated.
Sims agreed that some groups are at the next customary than others.
“All three of these groups performed actually good soccer on the weekend, and I’d say to these individuals which might be fast to leap to that storyline, ‘I did not hear something from you after spherical one’,” she stated.
“That sort of says volumes.
“I did not hear you after spherical one, and I perceive that generally in case you do not just like the scoreline or you do not like the best way issues are going, you are going to change off.
“I by no means change off any of these video games, I am going to watch them till the bitter finish as a result of there may be all the time one thing to learns, there’s all the time one thing fascinating that goes on. I really like footy and I am a frother.
“It’s what it’s. So, I get it, and everyone seems to be entitled to their opinion, however I believe to me it exhibits these three groups, significantly, performed very nicely.”
