Corban McGregor has grown up a rugby league fanatic. Now a Jillaroo, NRLW and Origin player, she is optimistic about the future of the women's game, despite the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Corban McGregor has been a rugby league fanatic since childhood, watching her idols compete for the ultimate prize of the premiership.
Teenage players Charli Buhagiar and Hayley Bell, both 14, are part of the wave of girls joining the women's game."I really love it and I think it would be good to get involved [in the NRLW] and I want to make it," Buhagiar said. "We should still acknowledge that, but it's also grown into more female players, officials and females in senior leadership roles — it's great to see."
This year the competition was meant to expand to six rounds, but the format will be the same as that played in 2018 and 2019 because of the financial pressures caused by COVID-19. "Not everyone is going to be able to be an elite player but they can certainly play the game or can be involved," Ms Page said.
"For all sport, that's their next challenge," she said. "Because we've been through COVID, we're still going through COVID, and a lot of things have had to be put on hold obviously.""Take this moment to be doing your strategy for when the world returns hopefully next year and what does it look like," she said.
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