Parramatta legend Mick Cronin has found himself at the centre of a brouhaha over women's rugby league in his home town of Gerringong. A report emerged over the weekend on the website the81stminute.com that the local team, the Lions, refused to field women's teams. Country Rugby League CEO Terry Quinn told Set of Six: "It seems to be true. Group Seven is really big on women's tag and women's football but Gerringong Lions don't want women's teams. It's discriminatory. We'll get onto it, we'll do something about it. Very surprising." Cronin commented: "I just coach the team, I am not on the committee. There are women on our committee so to say I don't want women playing football is ridiculous. Hockey is very big in the town, so is netball. I don't even know if they would have the numbers for an Oztag team." Cronin was also unsure it was within the CRL's jurisdiction to force a club to field a team in a particular competition.

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How many times can you remember players openly commenting about the selection of representative teams in which they are an incumbent. I've been writing about rugby league since 1986 and I'm struggling to think of another example outside of the past fortnight, when England fullback Zak Hardaker and prop George Burgess have each expressed their opposition to Wayne Bennett picking Australian-born players.

"I think it's wrong when some Australian players think they can walk into the team if they are eligible," Burgess said over the weekend. Former Great Britain captain Paul Sculthorpe is another to express his opposition. How long before we can describe this as a rebellion?