Adam Cuthbertson: Rhinos' '˜ambassadors' promote our game with pride and passion

Bradford Bulls men's team welcomes the Bradford Bulls and Leeds Rhinos' women's teams onto the pitch.

LAST WEEK'S women's fixture was a great success and it showed the women's game is a huge opportunity for rugby league as a whole.

I’m not talking about how successful it was for Leeds Rhinos as a club and a team, I mean it really worked as an event and that’s something rugby league could seize going forward.

The backing from both clubs, Leeds and Bradford, to advertise it and get the word out there about the game – and the fact we were the headline act for the men’s match – really brought it to life.

Bradford played Coventry first in League One and then we beat the Bulls’ women 32-16 in the main event.

Leeds Rhinos' women's team celebrate their victory over Bradford Bulls women's team.

I was happy with the result and performance and it was great to see the girls rewarded for so much hard work, but it was a brilliant display of rugby league as well.

It had everything: collisions, skill and desire in defence. Both teams put on a good performance for the full 80 minutes and it was great entertainment for the fans.

I was confident anyway, but having been part of it I think the women’s game can really broaden the appeal of rugby league going forward.

The really important part is the fact everyone – the women and the Super League clubs – are so willing to buy into it.

Jamie Jones-Buchanan. Picture Tony Johnson.

I’ve had nothing but praise about last Sunday. Gary Hetherington was there and I got a nice personal message from him afterwards saying how impressed he was and how much he had enjoyed it, and that is really positive for the future of the women’s side.

With the support the women’s game is getting from everyone in the sport, it can only go one way and that’s up. That has been seen in the NRL and it means we are going to have a strong sport.

At the last World Cup the England women were completely dominated by Australia and New Zealand. That’s because they have a legitimate competition that plays week in and week out. That’s why they have grown in stature.

As Women’s Super League gets established we will have that over here and it will be brilliant for the game as a whole going forward.

What I’d like to see now is Women’s Super League games played as curtain raisers for the men’s competition.

If that’s not going to happen with the under-19s and there’s no reserve grade, there is a gap the women’s competition can fill.

I think crowds will be more than happy to turn up and make a day of it.

When I heard Bradford were charging £18 for a League One game I thought that was a bit steep, but they made an event of it and had two fixtures and that made it a lot more worthwhile.

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