Is British RL worse at producing backs than forwards? : Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:55 am
Looking for some opinion from people more in the know than myself. From my own limited experience coaching junior RL, the talented backs were likely to be good soccer players as well and mostly saw RL as a second option. Meanwhile the forwards were more likely to think of themselves as rugby players first and foremost.
If this is a common phenomenon, then it could explain why the England/GB forwards has for some time seemed a notch aboce their backline. I think the prospect of a pack including Burgess, Graham and Peacock is an exciting one for the 4N, but where are the equivalent players in the backline? Playing Sunday League soccer having missed out at the final trial for Man United or Liverpool? Or maybe even playing for them - how good would Ryan Giggs have been had he stuck with RL?