Wakefield Trinity • Re: Lewis Murphy & Other Young Home Grown Players
Spookisback wrote:
The NRL is on a path to be an unchallengeable behemoth, the game here is headline news… big business… huge commercial investment… saturation TV coverage
If SL or RFL tries to directly compete now it will fail… the best way to success is to do what Trinity are doing… across the game… build from the bottom… be financially viable and grow steadily..
EVERY club should be producing 3 or 4 new young talented players each season… home developed… (yes some will be poached… attracted by the big league in Aus… but eventually that will even out) .. look to emerging nations for new young talent for academies (east Africa… Jamaica… the balkans… the Americas and Brazil… Netherlands and Norway)
The game isn’t broken… it’s evolving… and like all disruption it can be managed to advantage
Perhaps lift the restrictions on overseas players. What attracts fans is seeing great rugby, not overpaid Championship quality players. If you asked any Hull fan old enough to remember about their favourite period, they will all say the early 80's, and their backs were nearly all Aussies or Kiwis. Same with the great teams of the early 90's. Perhaps the difference is that they were top players coming over here, and the NRL wages aren't what they are now, but how many Bevan French's are there out who'd love to play in Super League but can't?
Quality attracts crowds. I didn't care where Solomona came from when he wore a Trinity shirt.
Statistics: Posted by Slugger McBatt — Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:19 pm