Quade Cooper as our new Scrum half?????? : Wed Oct 17, 2012 7:17 am  

Reading in the Aussie press a switch to League is on the cards for one of the best union halves in years. He is 24 years of age and is coming back from a cruciate injury.. Must be worth Eamon having a sniff.. Discuss

Re: Quade Cooper as our new Scrum half?????? : Wed Oct 17, 2012 7:20 am  

Good name! reminded me of Total Recall

Re: Quade Cooper as our new Scrum half?????? : Wed Oct 17, 2012 7:37 am  

The rumour is he is joining SBW at the Roosters if he goes anywhere.

With the $$$$ available in the NRL signings of this standard are a thing of the past. The sooner we get used to it, the better.

Re: Quade Cooper as our new Scrum half?????? : Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:37 am  

High profile RU players switching to league will only be doing so to play in the NRL.

And he'd be a non-fed player.

Re: Quade Cooper as our new Scrum half?????? : Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:41 am  

He'd be a good signing for whichever NRL side he joins.

[Sadfish]

Re: Quade Cooper as our new Scrum half?????? : Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:45 am  

him and SBW are bezzies and both wanna play in the same team, that being the Roosters.

Re: Quade Cooper as our new Scrum half?????? : Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:07 am  

QUOTA

Re: Quade Cooper as our new Scrum half?????? : Wed Oct 17, 2012 1:24 pm  

Cooper and SBW may not be the last Union players to switch to the NRL.
When the new ARL TV deal and revised (upwards) salary cap comes in for 2014 there'll be plenty Union players' agents wanting some of that for their clients.

There might not be many Aussie union players as all the best talent comes to League anyway but over the Tasman there are some brilliant Union players who could adapt to League quite easily.
Then there's South Africa. Their currency, the Rand, is of very low value especially against a high value currency like the Aussie dollar. Some of them could make their way to the NRL for a slice of the Rugby League financial action.

The way it's all being talked about this ARL TV deal is really big money for Rugby League players and I can see some Union players being persuaded by it to switch codes.

Re: Quade Cooper as our new Scrum half?????? : Wed Oct 17, 2012 1:41 pm  

Father Ted wrote:

Cooper and SBW may not be the last Union players to switch to the NRL.
When the new ARL TV deal and revised (upwards) salary cap comes in for 2014 there'll be plenty Union players' agents wanting some of that for their clients.

There might not be many Aussie union players as all the best talent comes to League anyway but over the Tasman there are some brilliant Union players who could adapt to League quite easily.
Then there's South Africa. Their currency, the Rand, is of very low value especially against a high value currency like the Aussie dollar. Some of them could make their way to the NRL for a slice of the Rugby League financial action.

The way it's all being talked about this ARL TV deal is really big money for Rugby League players and I can see some Union players being persuaded by it to switch codes.

Which could really give a boost to the international game and if Kiwi's, Pacific Islanders, South Africans are playing regalary in the NRL there will be a nmber of Aussies who have played first team nrl for years who can;t get a place in matcday squads and will choose super league over reserve team status.

Interesting times ahead

Re: Quade Cooper as our new Scrum half?????? : Wed Oct 17, 2012 2:25 pm  

dcc wrote:

there will be a nmber of Aussies who have played first team nrl for years who can;t get a place in matcday squads and will choose super league over reserve team status.

Interesting times ahead

They've sorted that issue by accepting two additional teams, so there would need to be around 30 imports from Union for that to happen.