In Mahi Tahi this week, we have done an art task.
We made a self-portrait and traced it onto wood. We then coloured them with our house colours using special paint-pens. These will be put up in our school for all to remember.*







*photo(s) to come.

Should Mixed Teams be Allowed in the

RWC?

The Rugby World Cup takes place every four years

and is the decider of which country has the best rugby team.

Despite all of the teams’ physical and strategic differences,

they all have one thing in common; they’re all completely male

teams. This is a completely good and reasonable decision.

Here’s why:

First of all, male and female players have completely

different builds. While males are stronger and have more

brute force, females will be more agile but less able to take

a hit. This could change strategies in the teams, seeing as

certain strategies will work better in completely male or

female teams. Agility-based strategies won’t work with a

team that only has 30% females. The same could apply for

the opposite; a team with a very strength-based strategies

but mostly females.

Building off of this, getting a good number of good and experienced players of both genders will be difficult. In countries like ours, it may be easy to get a willing number of players, but in some countries, it may not be the easiest thing. In some countries may not allow for women to play these kinds of sports or even sports in general due to cultural or religious boundaries. For this to be a fair game, all countries that can compete should have an equal number of males and females to another. That means that there should be a good amount of both genders on the sides in case another person gets hurt. Some countries may not be able to supply this many female players.

With the new changes on the teams, male players may be removed from the team. This will most likely annoy the male players who worked hard for a chance to be on their national rugby team. We say ‘survival of the fittest’, and this rule will definitely apply to the choosing of the teams. Only the most useful, strong, fast, agile, and strategic players from both genders will be picked from the team, cutting some of the previous team members. The two genders of players will have to be evenly skilled. Some countries’ male players may outshine the female players, which could make the mixed teams completely null and void.

So these reasons are why I think that mixed teams should not be in the Rugby World Cup. The male and female players may be too different, the male-female ratio may be hard to create and some of the best male players may need to be cut from the team.