Quote: Peter Kingsley "I said decline in quality and increase in competitveness.
What you described above is a levelling out of teams because some of the best ones have declined in quality. Just compare saints line up now to the 2006 one.'"
Well that's just a decrease in the Saints first team, it usually happens after a very good era for a team and players leave get old or retire. But the increase of Wire,Cats,Wigan and Huddersfield makes up for that compare there line-ups of 2006 to todays!..but saints are still a quality side with a good young core that will improve and keep challenging for silverware.
You didn't answer my question on the time scale this decline in quality has taken place in 15years? 10 years? 5? what?
and what made this time so much better?
Are you saying because there are more young British players in top teams coming through and getting established the league is worse....and would only be better if we starting buying ageing Aussie stars for one last pay day like 10 years ago
RL fans are never happy
rewind 10 years we have too many mercenary Aussies/Kiwis in the league...we need to bring through more English talent
FFWD to today where the SL champions have only 2 foreign players in the starting squad and a whole heap of young talent playing in the league and a more competitive league this means not improvement but just everyone getting worse.