ninearches:
Is there a danger with relaxing quota rules that SL will eventually finish up as an NRL old timers league to the detriment of bringing our youth through to play in our superleague. Where will the encouragement be for rugby playing kids of the future when Stanley Gene's name could be above their's on the team sheet ?
For another thing, it is about time our game was rebranded ,every sport has hi-jacked "super league" . Get a new came & copyright it.
You could be a bit sneaky and say that clubs have to have 'x' % of players in the first team squad that have come through their Academy which will naturally limit but not remove the amount of overseas players. I would argue each SL club should have, for example, 50% of the first team squad as Academy products and 25% UK trained and developed. That still allows 25% for overseas players, lets say 7 in a squad of 28. Clubs that haven't invested properly in their Academy will either have to do so as a priority, will have to incur transfer fees buying in UK trained players or will have to run with a smaller squad. It rewards those clubs that have invested in the Academy system. I think we have 14 or 15 Academy developed players in our first team squad. I've no time for penny pinching clubs who always think short term and hold the game back.
