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 progress 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 considerations 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 standard damaging 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 will change it off’,” she instructed 9’s NRLW Weekly podcast.
“I obtained a touch upon a publish concerning the Canberra recreation: ‘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 typically bounce to dismiss the league’s high quality.
“I feel that on this case, particularly with the Broncos and the Roosters, they have been simply too good. Like, it is really about them being too dominant,” she mentioned.
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 can be fast to leap to that storyline, ‘I did not hear something from you after spherical one’,” she mentioned.
“That form of says volumes.
“I did not hear you after spherical one, and I perceive that typically if you happen to 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 will watch them till the bitter finish as a result of there may be at all times one thing to learns, there’s at all times one thing fascinating that goes on. I 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 feel to me it reveals these three groups, notably, performed very effectively.”
