crashmon wrote:
I'd also argue right now about running an acadamy, I can see the reason for an acadamy more than reserves, but lets be honest, any decent players we find will go north long before we see them in a Broncos shirt, so why pay for it, if we are not going to see any decent products from it
I take that point but I think we should retain an Academy for the following reasons:
a) I think David Hughes sees this as legacy work for the game as a whole. If he’s paying I think that is a reasonable position.
b) look at Sunday’s starting line up: 9 are Southern Hemisphere imports. That’s neither desirable or sustainable. The myth that Northern players were queuing up to go PT in London has been exposed as being untrue (although it doesn’t seem entirely unreasonable to me that a few would be drawn to London). Accordingly, our only source of players, other than Australia, is the Academy (and Skolars obviously but we’ve asset ( in a loose sense) stripped them and it’s difficult to see what they’ll do next).
