'Slap in the face': Ugly truth behind explosive row

Wallaroos guardant Sera Naiqama believes the team's revolt against Rugby Australia has already acted arsenic a "catalyst" for alteration successful the women's game.

Australian rugby stars shared an explosive missive directed astatine RA connected societal media connected Sunday, which Naiqama said was sparked by a video featuring Abbey Lewis, the spouse of Wallabies prima Carter Gordon.

The since deleted video, shared connected an RA societal media channel, showed Lewis flying from Melbourne to Sydney to farewell Gordon for France.

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Wallaroos players, meanwhile, were near "crying and distressed astatine the gate" successful July aft not being capable to committee a level backmost location from Canada to Australia.

"It benignant of each blew up for us," Naiqama said connected Stan Sport's Rugby Heaven.

"But what I bash privation to accidental is that it has been a catalyst for a precise important conversation. And close present determination is simply a cohort of players that are communicating openly and fluidly with Rugby Australia and we're chatting... what sparked it?

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"A societal media station that we saw. It benignant of showed america a small spot of wherever I conjecture immoderate resourcing was going. Whether that's existent oregon not - I don't privation to marque this astir the societal media post. I privation to accidental that societal media station has been utilized arsenic a catalyst for an important speech and that's wherever we are."

Wallabies fable Tim Horan said Lewis had been enactment successful an unfortunate situation.

"I really thought it was a small spot unfair due to the fact that I've heard that she really paid for her formation to spell from Melbourne to Sydney," Horan said.

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"Stay the nighttime with Carter Gordon earlier the Wallabies alert retired to Rugby World Cup. So I thought that was a small spot unfair erstwhile she's paid for her mode up.

"But besides I'm each for the girls getting paid more."

Former Wallabies guardant Stephen Hoiles described the Lewis station arsenic "the straw that broke the camel's back."

"And I deliberation if you're a pistillate aspiring subordinate oregon you're a Wallaroo, you're sitting determination and you've been told for a agelong play of time, 'we don't person the money, we don't person this'," Hoiles said.

"But the crippled is spending a batch astatine the moment, we walk a batch of wealth connected recruits (in the men's game). We walk a batch of wealth moving coaches connected and bringing coaches in. So it was a slap successful the look to the Wallaroos, careless of the information of who paid for what.

"I conscionable deliberation erstwhile we're doing these things, Rugby Australia, erstwhile we're posting, there's got to beryllium a spot much humility successful the worldly that we're putting retired to the media and that lacked a small spot of class.

"The information that Rugby Australia shared it, thing against the girls that did it due to the fact that they're supporting their partners going to the World Cup.

"So it's not connected them."

RA accidental they are connected a way towards joining New Zealand and England and making the Wallaroos fully professional.

The Wallaroos are ranked 5th successful the satellite and are coached by a part-timer successful schoolhouse teacher Jay Tregonning.

"No disrespect but they're not performing against the champion teams successful the satellite due to the fact that they're not connected an adjacent playing tract with grooming level," Hoiles said.

"They're not fulltime... it's not (the complaints) astir concern people (travel). It's not astir getting the perks of being a nonrecreational footy player. It's astir being capable to go a fulltime footy subordinate and springiness your implicit best."

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Hoiles, who volition manager Randwick successful Saturday's Shute Shield last against Northern Suburbs (live connected Stan Sport), believed Australia's palmy women's sevens programme showed what was imaginable for the Wallaroos.

"They went done this astir apt 8 years ago. They went fulltime earlier immoderate squad successful the satellite arsenic a result, they won Olympic golden medals," Hoiles said.

"They bring an tremendous magnitude of gross and that's the benignant of counterargument - similar everything has to marque commercialized sense.

"But I wholly recognize and respect that until we springiness the girls a accidental to beryllium arsenic bully arsenic the opposition, we can't beryllium present and justice them and accidental 'you're not bringing capable money' due to the fact that they're not connected an adjacent playing field."