Young People vs. Rugby Culture

photo credit: Hijeje

The Dominion Post says that a report by a Wellington Rugby Union asserts that less kids are playing rugby and therefore are lazy and apathetic. Well, if they’re not playing rugby it’s obvious that they’re sitting around in front of the TV and therefore don’t care about anything. Pull the other one.

Perhaps they’re a little sour that while Rugby numbers are down (31,000 to 29,845), Soccer numbers are UP (20,667 to just over 22,000)!

I can’t find the actual report anywhere, but The Dom Post actually have a reasonably balanced article on it – with quotes and questions to a lot of other sports figures and organisations (SPARC, Danyon Loader and some others) to balance out the junk from the report. An interesting piece but to jump from “Kids are playing less rugby” to “Generation Y should be ‘Y Bother’” is ridiculous and makes it sounds like it was written by a bunch of NZ First voters.