: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:31 am  

EmmaMur01 wrote:

So the RL are going to put up loads of money to keep a player to play full back who is playing centre for his team??

KR fans wax lyrical about Briscoe and the ones I have spoken to feel he would do a good job at FB for England. In our own team, Leeds are looking after BJB and from what I have seen of him, feel he could be a future full back for England. I dont know enough about other teams academy kids, but I feel there will be some good up and coming full backs out there.

It is a dangerous precedent. You di it for one, others will want it too.

I give up. Your missing the point. The RFL should help all clubs from losing English talent to union regardless of what position they play for they're clubs. Competition for places is healthy and we don't have an abundance of talent in SL that are English..

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:32 am  

Mr Scruff wrote:

This said, one person's opinion is just as valid as the next person's.

Don't try and shoot me down for airing my opinion on what I think of a hypothetical situation.

It is, but when you post it on a message board its' going to be challenged. I am challenging your opinion that if this hypothetical scenario does occur it will be

bad management, wrong priorities and bad planning from Mr. Hetherington.

......because, frankly, it won't be.

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:33 am  

rpw wrote:

:FRUSRATED: I give up. Your missing the point. The RFL should help all clubs from losing English talent to union regardless of what position they play for they're clubs. Competition for places is healthy. Whats Briscoe got to do with anything ??

I am not missing the point, but I think you are.

Like I said in a previous post, it is setting a dangerous precedent for players and teams in SL.

If you do it for one, others will want it too. Are you seriously saying that for any SL who is linked to RU, the RFL should put money towards that players contract to keep him in SL???

Are you an agent by any chance???

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:34 am  

LS16_Rhino wrote:

Back on thread.

This is starting to mickey me off.

I’m getting a bit sick of the RFU (and to be honest it’s the RFU that fund these poaching raids into the Super League not the clubs themselves) throwing a shed load of wonga at our players just to see if they can cut it playing rah-rah rugby.

What hacks me off even more is that the RFL can do fekk all about it.

We find, nurture and develop these youngsters, invest time, money and effort in them and just when they’re starting to show true potential along come the RFU with a big bag of shiny gold and whip players from right under our noses.

When these players don’t quite cut it they get returned to us a shadow of their former selves.

Why can’t they just f**k off.

Did you get this wound up back in the 80's when league was poaching all the union players?

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:35 am  

rpw wrote:

:FRUSRATED: I give up. Your missing the point. The RFL should help all clubs from losing English talent to union regardless of what position they play for they're clubs. Competition for places is healthy and we don't have an abundance of talent in SL that are English..

She seems to see your point and is answering it quite well. I think you;re frustrated at your own inability to make your point.

As you have such grave concern over this issue why don't you answer DoubleAone's question higher up the thread?

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:38 am  

EmmaMur01 wrote:

So the RL are going to put up loads of money to keep a player to play full back who is playing centre for his team??

KR fans wax lyrical about Briscoe and the ones I have spoken to feel he would do a good job at FB for England. In our own team, Leeds are looking after BJB and from what I have seen of him, feel he could be a future full back for England. I dont know enough about other teams academy kids, but I feel there will be some good up and coming full backs out there.

It is a dangerous precedent. You di it for one, others will want it too.

Your missing the point Emma. You are not wrong from your point, but you are missing the point.

We now have 14 teams in Super League, and we want the quality to improve considerably. There is already a lack of quality players going around to accomodate those teams, to keep a good quality level playing field. Everybody wants to reduce overseas players, this places a further burden on the need for quality british players.

Why therefore not do anything as a game to ensure good quality british players are not lost to the game?

The RFL should in some way, maybe subsidise in salary cap for homegrown academy players (discussed previosly) to help us as a game not lose quality british players from Super League.

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:39 am  

EmmaMur01 wrote:

ATEOTD he is one player. If he wants to go, let him. No player is bigger than the club, and we shouldn't be breaking our salary policy for any player.

indeed


look at the mess we got ourselves in to trying to keep Harris, if Smith wants to go, release him. If he doesnt want to stay thats his mind made up

I would rather have a player fully commited than a player who be having his mind swayed by a carrot attached to a stick in front of his eyes

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:39 am  

EmmaMur01 wrote:

I am not missing the point, but I think you are.

Like I said in a previous post, it is setting a dangerous precedent for players and teams in SL.

If you do it for one, others will want it too. Are you seriously saying that for any SL who is linked to RU, the RFL should put money towards that players contract to keep him in SL???

Are you an agent by any chance???

No. Only if it's a concrete offer or there is serious chance of losing them to RU.

No. I just want to keep English talent in SL. Thats all, you know seeing as we're a tad short on English talent anyway....

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:39 am  

FFS, all those of you panicking about these players lost to the game, will you answer DoubleAone's question?

Do you all wear tin foil on your heads to stop aliens listening to your conversations?

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:40 am  

what comes around goes around


how many Union players did we get in the 80s and early 90s and yet were moaning about an odd player here and there switching codes a year