Re: Paul Johnson : Sun Oct 10, 2010 10:04 pm
Rogues Gallery wrote:
Agreed,
This is my solution, apologies to all of you who have heard it before.
Six substitutes and substitutions, but NO interchange (bringing fitness and stamina back into the equation).
Two of those substitutes have to be 21 or under at the start of the season (or an agreed date) and English qualified.
Thoughts please?
This is my solution, apologies to all of you who have heard it before.
Six substitutes and substitutions, but NO interchange (bringing fitness and stamina back into the equation).
Two of those substitutes have to be 21 or under at the start of the season (or an agreed date) and English qualified.
Thoughts please?
There are a few issues with your idea rogues.
1. The Australian would never adopt such a scheme increasing the difference between the two main leagues in the world.
2. You would be guarenteed 2 under 21s on the bench but you would be discouraging teams from starting them.
3. The legality of saying that 2 players have to be British born is questionable. In fact our current system would probably not handle a legal challenge.
I do like the idea in principle but it would be hard seeing it executed.
My idea to solve the overseas issue is simple (and stolen from the RFU). Rather than just hand out the Sky tv money the rfl should pay each club for each player that is qualified to play for a home nation each time they play.
So take the amount of Sky money per club divide by 27 (rounds in a season) divide by 17 (players in a team) and that is the amount given for playing a player. If you wanted to reward teams that produce players you could give half to the team that produced the player and half to the team he played for. So when Michael Shenton Plays for Saints half the money goes to Saints half to Cas'. This would also reward Championship clubs that currently get nothing when Superleague teams poach their juniors.
No restrictions on overseas players so if a team wants to have all overseas players they can (they just won't get any tv money).
For this to work there would need to be a tightening of the qualification rules to prevent teams getting their players to register their players to play for england i.e. Manu and Maurie.