JonB95 wrote:
why do you act like the NRL is some league of gods... some absolutely awful Super League players are going well in NRL, including Glenn Hall who was dreadful at Bradford yet is a crucial back rower for the Cowboys these days. admittedly it is MUCH higher intensity than Super League as expected but it's not impossible for the likes of Moore to succeed. just has to get his head down which will be easier away from the bad influences he seems to have here. best of luck to him
Agree.
The NRL has some genuine superstar players, but we do have a tendancy in the UK to dismiss the talent within the UK game.
Was listening to an Australian radio interview the other week in which ex wire centre Matt King commented that there were lots of very good players in SL, and i seem to recall him also saying we had the talent to be able to defeat Australia.
The main difference with the NRL is that there is more depth of talent, and consequently a greater week to week intensity.
In the past pre SL we got to compare our best players to theirs, as many had summer stints down under. As a result the likes of Andy Gregory, Kevin Ward, Ellery Hanley, Tony Myler and Gary Schofield enhanced their reputations in the UK. Now though British fans tend to treat everything out of Australia as god like, with the players from the UK being rubbish.