Re: Super League to allow marquee allowance, attract NRL sta : Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:26 pm  

Huddersfield1895 wrote:

Its probably about keeping talented British players in Super League rather than attracting has been and never was players from the NRL, or i would hope so.

Not a cat in hells chance!

There's talk of the perennial crock called Kurt Gidley being SL standard and the sad part is that clubs here are considering signing him

You at leastsee the attitude of the majority of SL clubs to "development", training, and assisting the game as a whole.

Buy! Its easier than hard work.

Re: Super League to allow marquee allowance, attract NRL sta : Wed Apr 22, 2015 9:37 pm  

Leaguefan wrote:

Not a cat in hells chance!

There's talk of the perennial crock called Kurt Gidley being SL standard and the sad part is that clubs here are considering signing him

You at leastsee the attitude of the majority of SL clubs to "development", training, and assisting the game as a whole.

Buy! Its easier than hard work.

Or, in the real world, clubs know that having seasoned and experienced veterans around will aid the development of the younger players around them.

Re: Super League to allow marquee allowance, attract NRL sta : Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:22 pm  

Leaguefan wrote:

Buy! Its easier than hard work.

On a Brass Plaque outside Red Hall I believe!

Re: Super League to allow marquee allowance, attract NRL sta : Wed Apr 22, 2015 11:21 pm  

Wellsy13 wrote:

Or, in the real world, clubs know that having seasoned and experienced veterans around will aid the development of the younger players around them.

That's a failed argument due to the fact that we haven't beaten the Aussies in a series since 1970 and we haven't won a world cup since 1972.
The only answer is to phase out the imports over a period of time forcing British clubs to take junior development seriously.

Re: Super League to allow marquee allowance, attract NRL sta : Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:06 am  

There's nothing wrong with having a few imports. They increase the quality of the competition. The aim should be a max of 3 per club in my opinion.

Which was the original target of the NFT rule when it was brought in. For some reason and without explanation or announcement that was scrapped and bizarrely a rise from 5 to 7 was implemented.

We're still better than we were several years ago and some clubs are doing better at producing players. We now need the 2 or 3 clubs lagging behind in that department to catch up and the other 5 or 6 clubs who are now doing better to go from simply producing adequate squad players to producing quality players regularly.

But those players are aided by having quality imports alongside them. We can't wall ourselves off. Even the amazing, wonderful NRL needs imports.

Re: Super League to allow marquee allowance, attract NRL sta : Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:10 am  

Huddersfield1895 wrote:

The only answer is to phase out the imports over a period of time...

What, completely? Way to kill the game! Some restriction on numbers, possibly, yes. But there can't be value in isolating ourselves (and optimistically claiming it's a world sport at the same time?).

Re: Super League to allow marquee allowance, attract NRL sta : Thu Apr 23, 2015 5:01 am  

Huddersfield1895 wrote:

That's a failed argument due to the fact that we haven't beaten the Aussies in a series since 1970 and we haven't won a world cup since 1972.
The only answer is to phase out the imports over a period of time forcing British clubs to take junior development seriously.

And thats a failed argument too.

Imports arnt the reason we can't beat the Ozzies. It's their biggest game in their most populated areas. In the UK, or even just England RL is a minority sport and we need to accept that for now at least. If RL was the major sport in London, Manchester and Birmingham we'd regulary thrash them.

Re: Super League to allow marquee allowance, attract NRL sta : Thu Apr 23, 2015 5:16 am  

Wellsy13 wrote:

Or, in the real world, clubs know that having seasoned and experienced veterans around will aid the development of the younger players around them.

Re: Super League to allow marquee allowance, attract NRL sta : Thu Apr 23, 2015 5:18 am  

Saint Simon wrote:

And thats a failed argument too.

Imports arnt the reason we can't beat the Ozzies. It's their biggest game in their most populated areas. In the UK, or even just England RL is a minority sport and we need to accept that for now at least. If RL was the major sport in London, Manchester and Birmingham we'd regulary thrash them.

How?

Re: Super League to allow marquee allowance, attract NRL sta : Thu Apr 23, 2015 5:42 am  

Leaguefan wrote:

How?

Really? with 30 million extra potential players you dont think we'd have a few better players? plus the extra cash injected into the game from sponsorship etc?