Quote: saints35 bulls0 "taking money from the top of the game wont help.
standards will drop at the top level and we will never get anywhere near as close as we are now. crowds will drop further, money will drop further..etc..
the problem is that RL is a minority sport here, and the number 1 sport in Sydney - the best athletes in Sydney play RL, the best athletes in the UK play football. There is nothing that can be done to address that IMO.'"
I keep hearing this but is it really true? We produced world class RL players 30 years ago and Football was just as big in this country as it is now. Also who are these top athletes that play football how many English footballers have ever played RL? And how did we miss out on them? Apart from Giggs