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| Quote Saddened!="Saddened!"Because as Daniel Anderson pointed out when mocking the mess SL has become since he left, there isn't the player pool to support 14 teams. In England the players playing the game at junior level are generally terrible athletes. They are the runts of society, the sons of council house dwellers. So the 'average' SL young player is a sparrow legged runt with average ability. Each club probably produces 3 or 4 reasonable players every 5 years.
They should cut SL to 10 teams.'"
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| Quote JB Down Under="JB Down Under"People hark back to the 90's as when we where nearly good enough. That was mainly down to RU imports. Maybe the answer lies in the RFL signing up the 10 best Union backs from the home nations like we did in the 90's? Davies, Tait, Gibbs, Devereaux, Offiah to name a few.
Other reality is the funding into the game in Australia since that time has gone up massively whilst in the UK it hasn't.
Hanley should count himself lucky he was playing at a time when everything was in GB's favour and he could at least lose by just a few!'"
Hanley, Schofield, Kevin Ward, Lee Crooks, Shaun Edwards, Steve Hampson, Chris Bibb, Deryck Fox, Lee Jackson, Kelvin Skerrett, plus Paul Newlove and Gary Conolly (talking of centres) all great players not one an RU import. (I could name more)
What do these players have in common apart from being great players? They all had spells in Australia.
That is the way forward. Plus competitive games. There are too many easy games. Because we don't have P&R. Bring it back, it'll settle down again and the lower clubs will bridge the gap in class.
WE lost the series to Australia in 1990 on the back of one bad ref's decsion at Old Trafford. If that decision (obstruction on Gibson) had gone our way we'd have won the game and the series - that's how clsoe we were. Close in 1992, inj Oz and in the World Cup final same year. Same in 1995. |
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The answer is simple
Make Garry Scholfield the RL Supremo
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| Quote major hound="major hound"Hanley, Schofield, Kevin Ward, Lee Crooks, Shaun Edwards, Steve Hampson, Chris Bibb, Deryck Fox, Lee Jackson, Kelvin Skerrett, plus Paul Newlove and Gary Conolly (talking of centres) all great players not one an RU import. (I could name more)
What do these players have in common apart from being great players? They all had spells in Australia.
That is the way forward. Plus competitive games. There are too many easy games. Because we don't have P&R. Bring it back, it'll settle down again and the lower clubs will bridge the gap in class.
WE lost the series to Australia in 1990 on the back of one bad ref's decsion at Old Trafford. If that decision (obstruction on Gibson) had gone our way we'd have won the game and the series - that's how clsoe we were. Close in 1992, inj Oz and in the World Cup final same year. Same in 1995.'"
so we never had easy games and blowouts when we last had relegation. Who you kidding?
Even in a 10 team league we still gonna get blowouts as we don't have 10 strong teams.
Honestly some people are living in a dream world. Going on like P&R is gonna solve all the problems.  |
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i'd love to get rid of the poor teams in SL which just makes so many games a dire spectacle and with a rise in high intensity games we'd hopefully see an improvement in the national team. Get rid of your wakefields, hull kr (who are one of the worst for bringing over average aussies), london, widnes and stick em into the second division with clubs their own size who they can compete with using their academies
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| Quote FFA="FFA"i'd love to get rid of the poor teams in SL which just makes so many games a dire spectacle and with a rise in high intensity games we'd hopefully see an improvement in the national team. Get rid of your wakefields, hull kr (who are one of the worst for bringing over average aussies), london, widnes and stick em into the second division with clubs their own size who they can compete with using their academies'"
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| Quote Big Ask="Big Ask"The answer is simple
Make Garry Scholfield the RL Supremo'"
As shocking as this may be it is still the best idea by far |
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| Quote fatbaztod100="fatbaztod100"As shocking as this may be it is still the best idea by far'"
No, no its not. |
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We can't have Schofield as RL supremo because it's more important that we appoint him to the England coaching job.
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| Quote Sheldon="Sheldon"New to rl?'"
New to sarcasm ? |
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| Quote major hound="major hound"Hanley, Schofield, Kevin Ward, Lee Crooks, Shaun Edwards, Steve Hampson, Chris Bibb, Deryck Fox, Lee Jackson, Kelvin Skerrett, plus Paul Newlove and Gary Conolly (talking of centres) all great players not one an RU import. (I could name more)
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Didn't say the whole team was made up of Union imports but it was supplemented by imports, especially in the backline.
1. Alan Tait
2. Martin Offiah
3. Scott Gibbs
4. John Deveraux
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Oh you pessimistic pommies..
All you need is 13 men on the day who think they can win.
If sport was only statistics then India would have been the dominant cricketing nation for the last few decades.
The way you run down your own players (and the game itself) simply because of your chip-on-shoulder attitude is frankly unbelievable
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