jonh wrote:
http://forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?t=400449
You really could not make it up how insullar some folk are.
jonh
I stood in a Pub in the Gold Coast a couple of hours after our Dismal Semi-Final defeat and listened to many different aruments on the subject.
Mine was this!
There were 12 of us at that bar & We could go outside and bewteen us have a "Competitive" game of Rugby!
It Wouldn't mean we were Any Good though Would it!
In my opinion we have lost sight of the one thing that we should be striving for and in our efforts to make the game "Competitive" we are not delivering "Excellence!".
Maybe I am being Nostalgic etc but I look back 10/15/20 years ago & I do not see us producing the "Quality" that we did back then that can compete.
Even 5 or 6 years ago there were a better crop of "Quality" players around compared to today IMHO.
I went to OZ last year for the WC and the squad was Dismal!
A dozen of those players wouldn't get a game in the NRL & we (Well Some, not me actually) call them "World Class"!
However
It's like Turkeys voting for Xmas! They arent going to do it!
Why should Wakey/Cas/Salford/Hudds etc worry about growing their businesses when the others are Hmastrung down to their Level????
As long as you have the 1.6m to spend like everyone else then why worry about Growing the game??
PS
I put something up the other day about wether the SL was actually more competitive than when Wigan dominated etc
I think we have manufactured a way for it to be more Competitive but to be honest with you I'm not so sure!
Over the last 5 years if it was 1st past the post I would suspect that Saints would have won it every time and the CC as well.
How would that be "More Competitive"!