Re: Players switching from Union to League : Fri Aug 17, 2018 9:12 pm  

simon worrall

Re: Players switching from Union to League : Fri Aug 17, 2018 9:27 pm  

Simon Irving

Re: Players switching from Union to League : Fri Aug 17, 2018 9:27 pm  

Eddie Rombo!!

Re: Players switching from Union to League : Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:05 pm  

The greatest of them all Lewis Jones.

Re: Players switching from Union to League : Sat Aug 18, 2018 6:21 am  

Plenty more:

Wilf Rosenberg
Colin Evans
Derek Hallas
Ken Thornett
Alan Rees
John Davies
John Gallagher
John Bentley
Sid Hynes
Johnny Atkinson
Alan Tait
Drew Broatch
Ronnie Cowan
Dai Young
Bev Risman
Louis Neuman

and young Harry Newman played Union

Re: Players switching from Union to League : Sat Aug 18, 2018 7:07 am  

Backwoodsman wrote:

The greatest of them all Lewis Jones.

The greatest of them all......Andrew Staniland

Re: Players switching from Union to League : Sat Aug 18, 2018 8:06 am  

Juan Cornetto wrote:

Plenty more:

Wilf Rosenberg
Colin Evans
Derek Hallas
Ken Thornett
Alan Rees
John Davies
John Gallagher
John Bentley
Sid Hynes
Johnny Atkinson
Alan Tait
Drew Broatch
Ronnie Cowan
Dai Young
Bev Risman
Louis Neuman

and young Harry Newman played Union

Plus the ones before those stars Joe Thompson etc

Re: Players switching from Union to League : Sun Aug 19, 2018 7:15 am  

Andy Smith - John Player Trophy winner.

Re: Players switching from Union to League : Sun Aug 19, 2018 7:24 am  

lionarmour87 wrote:

Plus the ones before those stars Joe Thompson etc

Yes some other top stars before my time Lionamour. I am not as old as you so I only mentioned the ones I have seen play

Re: Players switching from Union to League : Mon Aug 20, 2018 12:57 am  

On the cap, a recent BBC article said only one Premiership RU side made a profit last year. The difference in wealth of their owners compared to most of SL is a big factor - they can afford to pay to their much higher cap because their backers can afford it.

Until Douggie signed Fallon and Innes we were generally spectacularly bad at signing RU players in the 80s and 90s. Our sole Welsh signing was David Young, one of those RU props utterly unsuited to RL. Meanwhile some truly class Welshmen signed for other clubs - Devereux, Davies, Bateman, Gibbs, Ellis etc.