Re: Roby signed new deal to 2014 : Tue Nov 30, 2010 3:19 pm  

Billinge_Lump wrote:

Indeed, why would the Aussies care about training our youngsters up for no benefit to them? That's why it's a none starter of an idea.

Sending players over to play in the NRL is a short term fix to improving the England squad (and I mean short term as in 5 years or so). The long term solution is improving our coaching, especially youth coaching. That is were the majority of failure is. Good youth coaches produce players with better skills who turn into better players. Doing that means we don't have to send our players over to the NRL for 4 years to learn how to play the game at 24, and also means we don't weaken our own game by losing all the better players to a rival competition.

So should the RFL fund a couple of young promising coaches to go and do a placement at an NRL club each year?

Re: Roby signed new deal to 2014 : Tue Nov 30, 2010 3:49 pm  

Offside Monkey wrote:

So should the RFL fund a couple of young promising coaches to go and do a placement at an NRL club each year?

Thats a very simple but excellent idea.

Re: Roby signed new deal to 2014 : Tue Nov 30, 2010 3:58 pm  

Or clubs over hear making links with a club down under and candidates being sent for work placement and vice versa.

Re: Roby signed new deal to 2014 : Tue Nov 30, 2010 4:12 pm  

Two Wheeled Saint wrote:

Or clubs over hear making links with a club down under and candidates being sent for work placement and vice versa.

Again, something I've been banging on about for years, but as Billinge_Lump says it would need the buy in from the Aussie Clubs, which if they were really bothered about International RL should be a no brainer.
And therein lies the problem.

Sorry for the sermon, but it really does wind me up.

I would even make clubs give up £100K (example) of their t.v. money to MAKE it happen.

Re: Roby signed new deal to 2014 : Tue Nov 30, 2010 5:18 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Again, something I've been banging on about for years, but as Billinge_Lump says it would need the buy in from the Aussie Clubs, which if they were really bothered about International RL should be a no brainer.
And therein lies the problem.

Sorry for the sermon, but it really does wind me up.

I would even make clubs give up £100K (example) of their t.v. money to MAKE it happen.

Leeds are on with it with the bulldogs, but I reman skeptical(SGU for life) as the souths link up was nothing more than PR

Re: Roby signed new deal to 2014 : Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:04 pm  

I still feel the junior leagues need to switch to summer! Look at the weather outside! What incentive is there for talented lads to go training in that, you cannot improve core skills and more importantly its just not enjoyable, plus most matches will be called off for the next 2 months, so youngsters get out of the habit and never return to the game.
A switch to summer would hopefully see an increase in the number of kids actually playing rugby league and the smaller more skillful players will shine rather than the giant kid with no core skills who nobody can tackle

Re: Roby signed new deal to 2014 : Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:16 pm  

F4RSH wrote:

I still feel the junior leagues need to switch to summer! Look at the weather outside! What incentive is there for talented lads to go training in that, you cannot improve core skills and more importantly its just not enjoyable, plus most matches will be called off for the next 2 months, so youngsters get out of the habit and never return to the game.
A switch to summer would hopefully see an increase in the number of kids actually playing rugby league and the smaller more skillful players will shine rather than the giant kid with no core skills who nobody can tackle

You seem to forget who is running our game.This post makes sense,the ideas should be adopted,but as i say ,look who our administrators are,they couldn't organise the preverbial in a brewery

Re: Roby signed new deal to 2014 : Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:30 pm  

F4RSH wrote:

I still feel the junior leagues need to switch to summer! Look at the weather outside! What incentive is there for talented lads to go training in that, you cannot improve core skills and more importantly its just not enjoyable, plus most matches will be called off for the next 2 months, so youngsters get out of the habit and never return to the game.
A switch to summer would hopefully see an increase in the number of kids actually playing rugby league and the smaller more skillful players will shine rather than the giant kid with no core skills who nobody can tackle

While a fine point, it does have its drawbacks.

Speaking as someone who plays a summer sport, we can have any number from our 40-50 strong squad out at any time. Admittedly, we only play ten games a season, so it is easy to plan around our matches, and our players are dedicated enough to hold out for the fixture list to do so, you cannot do this so much with young families.

The stability of the league by doing this would be thrown up.

Of course, this would hopefully be offset by more involvement.

Re: Roby signed new deal to 2014 : Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:36 pm  

ski,i think the benefits of summer rugby for the amateur game far outweigh the pitfalls.training in warm weather,developing skills,hopefully poaching a few ru players.if its good enough for the pro's,its good enough for us all

Re: Roby signed new deal to 2014 : Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:42 pm  

snowdog wrote:

ski,i think the benefits of summer rugby for the amateur game far outweigh the pitfalls.training in warm weather,developing skills,hopefully poaching a few ru players.if its good enough for the pro's,its good enough for us all

I agree entirely, and am not belittling or arguing against the suggestion, more playing the devil's advocate on the basis of my personal experience.