Quote: Barry_McKenzie "What does that say about pommie footy players when the names being mentioned on here for Man of steel are all Aussies who have not been deemed up to NRL standards whether its physically or mentally?'"
Nine English players have won the man of steel awards whilst super league has been around compared to three Australians. How many Australians have won the award over all I’ll let you look that up.
The whole super league competition is a retirement league for Australians is a myth.
Want me to spell it all out for you?
Whilst playing for Warrington Allan Langer was called back into the state of origin squad by Wayne Bennett. Heck in 2003 he was even playing well for the Brisbane Broncos
How about Jamie Lyon whose appeared in a fair few grand finals sinces returning to Australia from England after playing with St Helens.
Tonie Carrol went back to play for Brisbane Broncos after a short career with Leeds Rhinos. He played for a long time with them too!
Trent Barrett, Andrew Johns, Stacey Jones, Adam Mogg & Greg Bird are others who were good enough to fit into a NRL team after playing in super league.
The fact is if you’re a good player you want to test yourself out in different environments in the world to see if you succeed.
We’ve had British players playing in Australia playing well and good Australian players playing in the English leagues playing well.
Lesson Over
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