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Straight Up

Straight Up

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I had heard he was applying for the men’s coaching role so I had a feeling he would leave. “Yeah,” I said, wondering what that had to do with anything. That’s been really, really huge and it matters … you’ve got to go out of your way for things you actually believe in. Everything I do every day, I believe in every job I do.

I said, ‘I will not put anything in there that you’re not okay with’, and she felt a lot better. I said, ‘I really want to put in the Women’s Refuge and everything’. Obviously, she didn’t feel like…” Tui’s voice tapers off. Tui set out to write a sports book and ended up with an astounding masterpiece on life. At various times it crosses into self-care, leadership, relationships and teamwork. Each chapter concludes with a piece of advice from ‘Ruby’s training bag’. The least she can do, she says, is talk to the workers, and take some selfies with her Rugby World Cup medal.This memoir by Kiwi Rugby Sevens player Ruby Tui & NZ singer Stan Walker's memoir Impossible: My Story employed the same ghostwriter, Margie Thomson. & both books to me feature an amazing theme of the ability to forgive people in their childhoods who have done them both a great wrongs. Straight Up blows the stereotypical rugby biography out the door. It is the first ever written by a female professional rugby player. This is the kind of thing coaches often say, that they’ll include the players, but then they don’t really, because it can be quite a scary thing to put your job in the hands of others. But when Bunts said that to me, I don’t know why but I knew I could trust him. I knew he was for real. This was the kind of team I wanted to be in. One with a real culture. Even at our worst moments during that Olympics final in Rio, I’d known beyond certain that our team had all the ingredients — the best players in the world — but there was something wrong with our recipe. This guy’s got the recipe. I instantly knew it, and I knew I wanted to follow him into battle.

Does rugby need more personalities? I believe it needs more support. In New Zealand, it was only in 1995 when men’s rugby went professional. Prior to that, the boys were similar to us. They are really scrutinised by the media and have learnt the hard way. I don’t think it’s wise of us as women coming through to disregard the learnings they’ve had. It’s about not losing sight of who we are, but still remembering we have a responsibility to be role models. That’s what we’ve got to remember: not to pretend to be something we’re not or be all zipped up and private – but role models.” An example: “Our team is a waka and we leave mana in our wake.” And another: “It’s not your skin colour, your salary or any of that stuff that makes you great; it’s your fight, it’s your work ethic.” We shared so much of the World Cup with the country that it was really niggly trying to get a moment as a team after we won. It was carnage. In the morning, I was still in my full kit, head to toe, in the casino, because it was the only thing open.” Ruby Tui has released her autobiography which details her difficult upbringing. Photo / Michael Craig I guess in one long night of tossing up between do we call help, are we loyal to the friend, how do we help dad, I'm scared… all those emotions and perspectives [combined] in one harrowing experience."

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So she’s not ready to retire yet; she’s had great advice from the likes of mentor Keven Mealamu and the rugby players’ association. Bunts letting us take the huddles was extremely uncomfortable at the beginning. We all have specific areas of the game to lead, but there’s still a learning process to know what to say in the heat of the moment when you are extremely fatigued and emotional. But this is a whole other level of leadership awareness. You go from worrying only about yourself in a team huddle — getting a water, waiting for the coach to say something that might help — to constantly being aware of every aspect of the game because you need to have the answers now, not the coach.



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