Yes thanks for that.. Have heard murmurs of this on the news.
It's that last comment in the article that needs to be addressed and stamped out of junior league.
"But rugby hardliners like Craig Dwyer say the big players and the even bigger hits that come with them, are just part of the game.
“If they're going to play rugby league anyway they're going to come up against bigger kids, smaller kids," he said.
“They've got to face it some time.”
It's the wrong mind set kids grow at different rates, adults can compensate for size with muscle building but kids can't.
I've seen it so many times, kids that can accurately kick goals, sprint, hold, pass the ball .. All leave for soccer because they get thrown around like ragdolls or crushed in tackles by bigger kids and then come off the field disillusioned and defeated by big fat kids without skill. No offence to big fat kids but just saying