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| Quote: Tigerade "I saw an Interesting article recently by Alex Murphy in the Manchester Evening News.
Super League has turned into a ‘three divisions in one’ competition, according to rugby league legend Alex Murphy.
He believes there is now too much inevitability about the outcome of games and blow-out score lines.
He has been quick to make comparisons with football’s Premier League in how the wealthier clubs dominate and have a clear advantage over the majority.
He told MEN Sport
I think the point been is that the super league is becoming like the premeir league in the fact that the lower clubs will never compete with the those at the top (both on and off the field). And the league is pretty much the same year in year out with the clubs finishing in similar positions. Meaning games become more predictable aswell clubs league positions. Thats my understanding of it anyway.
I think my 3 tier would be.
1. Leeds, Warrington, Wigan, Saints (always up there recent history).
2. Bradford, Hull fc, Hull kr, Huddersfield, Catalan.
3. Wakefield, Salford, London, Widnes, Castleford.
Not taking into account runs of form or injury problems.
The games most entertaining for myself to watch are when the clubs compete with other clubs within their tiers.
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| Quote: StanTHEWildcat "Until the lesser sides can keep hold of their better players then the league will probably continue to be like it is. In recent years salford have lost 2 quality british halfbacks to warrington, now that inturn pushes warrington right into the mix but really knocks salford for six. Same at wakefield losing players like murphy,george and brough to huddersfield, the sad thing is murphy should be playing everyweek in superleague, yet hes rotting away kind of in the reserves. cas appear to have thrown all their eggs in one basket keeping hold of chase and at present that tactic seems to have backfired.Widnes were always likely to struggle this year forming a new team plus we all know last years widnes were poor even in the division they played in, so the local lads theyve got in there, will take a year or 2 to get used to superleague.All clubs need money men not just the select few sadly this doesnt appear to be happening at present.'"
Yes, but what goes around comes around. In the early years of SL Warrington similarly lost Paul Sculthorpe and Iestyn Harris to richer teams - that certainly knocked Wire for six. Success is to some extent always cyclical. In the 1970s Salford were a real force and there is no one thing you can point to that saw them slip from Champions to strugglers over the next thirty years. Check out Bradford Bulls' more recent history for another example. |
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I think until the RFL owns all the teams and all the teams are run for the good of the game, the game won't grow, and won't be even.
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| Quote: BrisbaneRhino "Huddersfield to me are the prime example of a team that through a gradual but continued commitment to youth, have got better almost year on year. With no salary cap restrictions, would they have been able to keep the likes of Cudjoe? With no franchising would they have even dared go down that route in the first place?'"
This would be the same Huddersfield who signed promising Bulls academy products Patrick and Wardle? Who have a very wealthy owner, who I suspect if there was no cap would be sorely tempted to spend rather more to buy success? |
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| Quote: Adeybull "This would be the same Huddersfield who signed promising Bulls academy products Patrick and Wardle? Who have a very wealthy owner, who I suspect if there was no cap would be sorely tempted to spend rather more to buy success?'"
Do Bradford spend to the cap? It's not a dig, it's just a general question. |
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With a third of the season gone, it looks like the current top tier of the Super League (and therefore the often quoted ‘Big 4’) are Hull FC, Warrington, Huddersfield and Catalan Dragons
That’s the problem with the Super League, all too predictable
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