He and every other SL chairmen only care about their own club, they're not bothered with the fact it's 40 years since GB/England won anything. RFL should be encouraging the players to go out there, pay for relocation if need be. If Eamonn is worried about nurturing talent and losing them for free, then the clause in the deal is that the player returns to the club once his spell down under is over. They will probably come back a better player too.
Who put the money in to develop Pryce, Sculthorp, Long, Newlove, Sullivan, Martyn and all the imports they have had, different when the boot is on the other foot!
Surely the greatet reward for investing in youngsters is to see them develop into 1st team players and get your side into SL, thats value for money.. The mans a hypocrit buying Aussie legends and chasing trophies while the club makes a loss each season.
He ought to try being connected to a second tier RL club and coming from a classic hotbed of junior talent like some of us in this town have been and nurturing kids from the age of six years old right the way through mini-mod, into junior RL, through the service area system and getting the same kids onto the professional club level at scholarship just to have the rug pulled from beneath you. Hypocrites the lot of them.
Some of the brightest talent in this country at junior/youth level have been pushed out of town because of the SL clubs making & bending the rules on development to suit their greedy selves, that's basically what last night's pledge night was about, re-grouping some of the lads at an older age back into our great club. To listen to the likes of Jonnie Lawless & Bloemy referring to Halifax last night as "our" club was truly humbling for the likes of myself. Bloemy talking about the comparison of coming to this country and being blown away by the wish of local players wanting to play for their hometown clubs was interesting and makes you think about things a little deeper, maybe sometimes folks in this game of ours take things for granted too easily. Eamonn McManus & the likes get no sympathy from me whatsoever I'm afraid, they're the ones who've had it good for the last ten to fifteen years since they brought the game to it's full time professional status and sold their souls for Murdoch's money. If St. Helens can't hang onto their kids, what chance do the rest of us have ?
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