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JSJ
I am trying to get my head around the various registered players vs participants numbers that get bandied about.
I think these numbers and % will play a big role in the ARU spreadsheet or scorecard, when it is revealed.
A few months ago, I wrote a stinging letter to Eales about “wearing his Qld jumper” when the board approved Qld getting 9 times as much money for grassroots as WA (according to bit I extracted from Alison’s analysis of ARU reports.) Eales wrote back that he was offended by my accusation and he invited me to call him, which I did. During the call, he told me the split up was done on the basis of registered player numbers. At the time I was guessing that Qld would not have more than double the WA number for registered players. According to Pulver’s numbers for “participants”, Qld has 4 times as many participants as WA.
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Mr Pulver. Using figures from 2016, I can inform the committee that of 257,000 participants in Australian rugby 42 per cent come from New South Wales; 30 per cent from Queensland; nine per cent from the ACT; seven per cent from WA; six per cent from Victoria; with the balance from South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory.
My breakdown of Pulver’s participant numbers below are:
NSW 107940 42%
Qld 77100 30%
ACT 23130 9%
WA 17990 7%
Vic 15420 6%
SA,NT&Tas 15420 6%
Total 257000 100%
Senator Smith was also later trying understand the numbers in her questions to Sinderberry.
Senator SMITH: I tried to extract this information from Mr Pulver. At the time that Western Force and rugby here in Western Australia is going from strength to strength in terms of participation, what was happening in Victoria in terms of community sport participation rates, for example?
Mr Sinderberry: Like all sports, they measure these things in a range of different ways. Whether participation is measured by children who go along to a school visit, to have one visit a week, or by actual participation numbers when people are playing regularly on a Saturday, there are a range of measures. My understanding was that, during this time, the Western Force did incredibly well in terms of those Saturday participation numbers.
Senator SMITH: When I think of participation numbers I think of young kids and their families going out on a Saturday morning.
Mr Sinderberry: That's how we normally measure it. In that area, we were well ahead of the Victorians. They were ahead on this experience-type thing, where the kids are going to schools and that sort of thing.
Mr Howarth: I think the numbers in women's rugby are quite significant too.
Mr Sinderberry: We're well ahead on those numbers as well. On what I call troop participation, we were doubling the numbers.
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