Netballers up in arms over comment of Canberra Raiders coach Ricky Stuart
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Netballers up in arms over comment of Canberra Raiders coach Ricky Stuart
‘We deserve more respect’: Netballers up in arms over alleged comment of Canberra Raiders coach Ricky Stuart
Current and former netball players have slammed alleged comments made by Ricky Stuart about netball. On NRL 360, Paul Kent reported on a discussion he had with Stuart over recent discussions with his players: “As Ricky said to me - 'If I can’t have tough conversations with my better players I might as well coach netball'."
The comments did not go down well in the Australian netball community and were shared widely by netball clubs on social media. Netball great Liz Ellis also made her displeasure known.
Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/we-des ... 57rqy.html
Stuart’s disrespectful netball jab hurts every Aussie sport: http://bit.ly/3bnBhBr
Current and former netball players have slammed alleged comments made by Ricky Stuart about netball. On NRL 360, Paul Kent reported on a discussion he had with Stuart over recent discussions with his players: “As Ricky said to me - 'If I can’t have tough conversations with my better players I might as well coach netball'."
The comments did not go down well in the Australian netball community and were shared widely by netball clubs on social media. Netball great Liz Ellis also made her displeasure known.
Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/we-des ... 57rqy.html
Stuart’s disrespectful netball jab hurts every Aussie sport: http://bit.ly/3bnBhBr
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Ricky really needs to double down on this one and have a crack at all the 'Karens' playing netball. Quickly followed with muttering **** me under his breath.
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I heard Kent say that on 360 and cringed as he said it but I thought he was giving a theme of the conversation he had with Ricky more than providing a direct quote of what Ricky said. Kent is not doing Ricky any favours at present.
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“It’s 2021 and these comments are still being said about women in general and there is no need for it,” Garbin said.
Disgusting comment. It’s not just women who play netball, men and non binaries play it too.
I can’t believe in this day and age there are people who still refers to sports as either ‘mens sports’ or ‘women’s sports’.
Disgusting comment. It’s not just women who play netball, men and non binaries play it too.
I can’t believe in this day and age there are people who still refers to sports as either ‘mens sports’ or ‘women’s sports’.
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Oh gosh, the outrageous times we live in.
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Fair enough too, he didn't mean it with any malice but it's about getting rid of that attitude that women's Sports are "soft" and lesser than men's sport
Just like calling people "spastics" or "retards", it's not acceptable anymore
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Jesus H **** Christ, Stick, it’s 2021
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OUTRAGE!!!
This place is woke.
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My local netball club wants to fire Ricky into the sun..
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Please Rick, don’t start bagging the inclusion of BreakDancing into the Olympics..
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To be fair that is not what the comments from the netball clubs were complaining about. The quote from Ricky was nothing to do with on field activity, but having hard conversations with players off the field.
The netball clubs, not unreasonably arked up and said “hold on, we are professional sports too. We have elite athletes and we have to make hard decisions about cutting players, leaving players out of the team, bench rotations etc. We also tell our players at times their performances are unacceptable.”
Some may see it as a sexist comment, but reading those tweets, I reckon they saw it as an attack on the professionalism of their elite athletes and they are entirely correct.
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I knew this would be a thing as soon as I heard it. The point of comparison in the phrase is more commonly about tiddlywinks isn’t it?
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I can understand Ricky gets warned for swearing on a live broadcast.
But this was a comment apparently made in private, albeit to his mate the journalist.
If this is the worst thing a person says in private in any given week, they are an absolute saint.
But this was a comment apparently made in private, albeit to his mate the journalist.
If this is the worst thing a person says in private in any given week, they are an absolute saint.
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It's an odd comment to make.
If he thinks netball is soft, does he also think basketball is soft?
Why not use basketball as the example?
If he thinks netball is soft, does he also think basketball is soft?
Why not use basketball as the example?
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Exactly..
Those ridiculously long shorts and those stupid full length tights underneath..
If any sport needs a good serve it’s basketball.
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As a retired male netball player, this is nothing more then a storm in a tea cup
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Re: Netballers up in arms over alleged comment of Canberra Raiders coach Ricky Stuart
And that’s the thing Roger - before everyone picks up pitch forks and sticks, Has Ricky actually acknowledged that he said this?? I cringed as I watched it on 360 as well, but Kent was giving a flavour of a conversation he had with Ricky. It’s not inconceivable that Ricky did make a comparison to tiddlywinks or marbles and it’s actually Kent that has done him an injustice in how he has relayed it on the show.Roger Kenworthy wrote: ↑May 14, 2021, 6:29 am I knew this would be a thing as soon as I heard it. The point of comparison in the phrase is more commonly about tiddlywinks isn’t it?
It was a dumb choice of words but there is a chance it could be Kent’s dumb choice rather than Ricks. There is also a chance that Rick used a worse analogy like ballet, AFLW or something else offensive. I just think we might be jumping the gun on this one here and directing outrage at the wrong person. I’d like to hear from Ricky or Kent about who actually said what before judging here.
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Careful - GE thinks rugby league is basketball.-PJ- wrote:Exactly..
Those ridiculously long shorts and those stupid full length tights underneath..
If any sport needs a good serve it’s basketball.
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It's a dumb comment if indeed he did say that, but the sort of thing you'd expect to hear from a guy his age. That sort of attitude is just how they were brought up and the cement in the brain is long dried by now, they aren't changing.
Which isn't to say he's done nothing wrong or it shouldn't be called out. He's absolutely said a dumb thing and he should be called out and I'm glad he's being called out for it, because the point of calling this stuff out publicly is so young people, particularly young men, who's cement is still wet and still learning can see that this kind of derogatory comparisons that are at their core, sexist, aren't acceptable anymore.
Which isn't to say he's done nothing wrong or it shouldn't be called out. He's absolutely said a dumb thing and he should be called out and I'm glad he's being called out for it, because the point of calling this stuff out publicly is so young people, particularly young men, who's cement is still wet and still learning can see that this kind of derogatory comparisons that are at their core, sexist, aren't acceptable anymore.
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I hope the netballers are ok
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i just dont understand the use of it. is he saying tough conversations dont need to be had in netball? or can netballers handle tough conversations?
interchanges are far easier to handle in netball also so maybe hes onto something.
interchanges are far easier to handle in netball also so maybe hes onto something.
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I used to date a girl who played netball for NSW, back in the day. Quite frankly, the brutality of that game both on and off the field has to be experienced to truly understand it.
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I remember a friend of mine convinced me to join her mixed netball team when i was about 17-18, i had finished up footy a few years ago and my fitness has gone down as a result so i figured it was a rec league, it'll be a bit of fun, get a bit fit, why not?
It was honestly the most vicious season of sport i have ever experienced, and i played on some very grubby RL teams in my 12 years of playing club and school footy in Western Sydney
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Why is it called netball anyway.
There’s no net.
There’s no net.
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you clearly dont watch enough netball
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No, cuz it’s soft.
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There’s millions of netball courts scattered across this great land and I haven’t seen a net yet!!!!
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SHUT UP NETFACE
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Maybe the NRL and Netball Australia could come up with a hybrid game.
We’ll see who’s soft when Papa gets given the GA bib.
We’ll see who’s soft when Papa gets given the GA bib.
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You see, I know you're joking, but you might be onto something.
I'd also consider a game like the used to do with games between union and league teams - first half under league rules, second half under netball rules.
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Now we’re talking. We’d have to use rules from both sports.
So..no scratching..no cat calling..no chicken wings..no shoulder charges..no grapples etc.
Play 40mins netball and 40mins Rugbrugh Leeg.
Let’s see Liz Ellis off the back fence.
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Would be really awkward if we're playing Rugby League rules in the second half... And we lose.