Re: RL expansion is alive and well : Sat Nov 16, 2019 6:15 pm
MorePlaymakersNeeded wrote:
That ship has already sailed. The quality of SL has plummeted over the past decade, and shows no sign of improving.
The heartland towns along the M62 are dying fields for cultivating new talent, in part because of the soccer playing immigrants who have moved in. The only hope for increasing the talent pool for England to recruit from is to spend RFL development money in places like London and the surrounding areas of southern England, and in new areas like Newcastle where the Thunder has an active interested management and organisation in place. York might also be a place to focus on.
As for the Celtic nations, obviously there needs to be development work done in places like, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff, Swansea, Belfast and Dublin. It will take a decade to bear fruit, but if the work is not started now, nothing better will ever emerge.