Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Sun May 28, 2023 5:48 pm
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Chris71 wrote: Think anything over £100K is a lot for a player that up until recently wasn’t even on the radar and been at a fair few different clubs without making much of an impact. Yes Dupree has potential and looks good so far this season but don’t think he’s done enough yet to be worth that much. Think it shows how poor and small the talent pool is currently in the U.K. game when a player like Dupree is attracting a figure like that for a transfer fee. Another reason why the RFL and SL clubs need to make the reserves a mandatory requirement. All 11 English SL clubs are playing reserves fixtures according to this: https://www.hullfc.com/team/reserves/reserves-table Mandating it would feel like when the government rolls out a legislative solution to a clearly economic problem. To me Dupree is an example of a more natural system of progression working. The interests of SL clubs and their, understandable but not helpful, desire to own and control developing talent, to me at least, isn’t what you’d want to base your system around if the main goal is to allow that talent to flourish. But the SL clubs have the money, run the game and have their fans loyalty - so we get something that is club-centric rather than player-centric. |
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Chris71 wrote: Think anything over £100K is a lot for a player that up until recently wasn’t even on the radar and been at a fair few different clubs without making much of an impact. Yes Dupree has potential and looks good so far this season but don’t think he’s done enough yet to be worth that much. Think it shows how poor and small the talent pool is currently in the U.K. game when a player like Dupree is attracting a figure like that for a transfer fee. Another reason why the RFL and SL clubs need to make the reserves a mandatory requirement. All 11 English SL clubs are playing reserves fixtures according to this: https://www.hullfc.com/team/reserves/reserves-table Mandating it would feel like when the government rolls out a legislative solution to a clearly economic problem. To me Dupree is an example of a more natural system of progression working. The interests of SL clubs and their, understandable but not helpful, desire to own and control developing talent, to me at least, isn’t what you’d want to base your system around if the main goal is to allow that talent to flourish. But the SL clubs have the money, run the game and have their fans loyalty - so we get something that is club-centric rather than player-centric. |
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