The Virtual Terrace • 10 TEAM SUPERLEAGUE?
Cas Till I Die wrote:
Nothing to lose..... apart from clubs who produce a pathway for countless past and present gb/England internationals in a time when we don’t even have a reserve grade. Nice one
I tend to prefer to deal with the present and future rather than the past but now you mention it, of the 23 players that represented England at the last World Cup, 14 of them came from the academies of just four clubs (4 Bradford, 3 Wigan, 4 St Helens and 3 Leeds). Another two were from Australian clubs.
The only one that came from a club in the "heartland" that is the WF postcode area is Alex Walmsley from Batley.
The truth is that Julie Burgess' uterous is more of a "rugby league talent heartland" than some of our heartland clubs.
So wrencat probably isn't far off the mark, Leeds and Wigan probably will produce most of the talent - they're doing it already.
But even if you think that's still "something to lose", if the professional game continues to wither on the vine, we'll get to the point where we won't need a professional player pathway - because there won't be a professional game for them to play.
Statistics: Posted by bramleyrhino — Wed Feb 21, 2018 8:55 pm — Replies 32 — Views 963