: Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:15 pm  

Incidentally can i apologise for my part in the thread getting out of hand.

I do enjoy posting on here and i do indeed love Trinity. I also love rugby league and am very very passionate about the development of our young talent which is why i so adoment on the issue, i have been involved in it for the last 5 years now at one level or another and it breaks my heart to think that some of the players I and others have invested so much time and effort in, at best can hope to play league as a stepping stone for a career in union.

Apologies once again.

Jonh.

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:16 pm  

mutley cat wrote:

nothing more than a world beating GB side would i like to see but i believe that's comes from the heart and if smith was ambitious in league then he would of stayed , you will have to excuse me but i m trying to think of a top SL who turned union down a couple of years ago but for the life in me i can not remember

Pryce Radlinski and Cunningham all did it, not sure about Pryce but the latter 2 were given massive financial insentives to stay in League from external scources.

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:23 pm  

jonh wrote:

Incidentally can i apologise for my part in the thread getting out of hand.

I do enjoy posting on here and i do indeed love Trinity. I also love rugby league and am very very passionate about the development of our young talent which is why i so adoment on the issue, i have been involved in it for the last 5 years now at one level or another and it breaks my heart to think that some of the players I and others have invested so much time and effort in, at best can hope to play league as a stepping stone for a career in union.

Apologies once again.

Jonh.

i think a few of us let it go astay

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:24 pm  

Is smith actually going or is it a ploy just to up contract talks?

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:26 pm  

Gahan wrote:

Is smith actually going or is it a ploy just to up contract talks?

Its been in the Yorkshire post that Wasps and Wigan have been interested.

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:27 pm  

jonh wrote:

Its been in the Yorkshire post that Wasps and Wigan have been interested.

So he hasnt signed anything then?

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:28 pm  

Gahan wrote:

So he hasnt signed anything then?

Nothing confirmed.

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:31 pm  

Absolute non story then

Anyway why would Wigan be interested?

1. He isnt Australian
2. He's under 30

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:15 pm  

t-r-i-n-i-t-y wrote:

Spot on. How we still have winter rugby league is beyond me, it really is. Wouldn't more kids want to give it a go and stick at it if they played in warm weather rather than rolling around in cold, freezing mud? I know I would have! Who coaches the coaches?

the rfl set the coaching standards. at the moment there is new badges to work for you do a paper on rules a coaching session for maybe 15 mins and some book work. the level 2 now is more health and safety than coaching, bottles in a square, post protectors on ambuance access, first aid kits. these are supposed to be filled out before sessions. very few unless theyre completely hopless will fail a badge. many coaches in the junior game take a team on reluctanly as a parent as there is no one else and they do this to keep the teams afloat. they need help, they need to be looked at when theyve done there badge and guided along. the top badge to coach at sl and pro is supposed to be absolutly stupid, with 12 modules many none game related and at a cost of nearly a thousand pounds yes a grand.

: Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:20 pm  

MOPSEY LIVES ON wrote:

the rfl set the coaching standards. at the moment there is new badges to work for you do a paper on rules a coaching session for maybe 15 mins and some book work. the level 2 now is more health and safety than coaching, bottles in a square, post protectors on ambuance access, first aid kits. these are supposed to be filled out before sessions. very few unless theyre completely hopless will fail a badge. many coaches in the junior game take a team on reluctanly as a parent as there is no one else and they do this to keep the teams afloat. they need help, they need to be looked at when theyve done there badge and guided along. the top badge to coach at sl and pro is supposed to be absolutly stupid, with 12 modules many none game related and at a cost of nearly a thousand pounds yes a grand.

The system is beyond flawed to say the least.