Wigan Warriors - wiganrugbyfans.com • Re: Did Covid kill Rugby League?
100% Warrior wrote:
The decline is through years of RFL mismanagement not the creativity.
That’s as alive and well as it was in the era you’re harping on about.
If you watched the CC documentary on BBC yesterday you’d see the poor defensive structures teams had. It wasn’t hard to create something that looked for all the world unbelievable when you have bus sized holes and a dog leg defensive line.
Which era have I harped on about? All I've stated is it is my opinion that the standard of SL has plummeted in the last 20 years, it's no where near the entertaining game it used to be. SL cannot keep what little talent there is draining away to the NRL and RU, and were only getting to see third rate, players with baggage or looking for a pension top up coming the other way. Tomkins was only released back to SL from NZ Warriors because his pace had gone after injury, and he's still one of the best English/GB full backs we have, but no where near the player he was.
We've gone too far on the defensive mindset with stifling wrestlemania tactics (evolved in Australia) being the be all and end all. Then there's so many players with ball in hand not knowing what to do with it, other than drive it forward.
As I stated before, if you're happy with the standard of players and game I haven't got a problem with that, as people can like or dislike whatever they want.
Statistics: Posted by MorePlaymakersNeeded — Sun Apr 05, 2020 1:18 pm