Quote Sadfish="Sadfish"For a while now, i've thought about the correlation between a certain amount of people's disollusionment with Super League, the Overseas Quote & the NRL Salary cap.
With the NRL cap set now at almost £3 million and 18 teams in their competition including SOO and with the Aussie dollar improving greatly over the pound we're seeing almost no top players coming over.
I personally, think this is having a detrimental effect more than anything else on our game. The was always the discussion that the overseas quota was killing GB's chances of beating the Aussies, but I often wondered whether this was actually the opposite way around. The GB players, playing with the best players in the world is the way to get our players to be as good as the Aussies, but the drain to the NRL isn't occuring, so we need them to come over here.
I feel there is a need for either more overseas players, or an extra salary cap for overseas talent if they are Origin or Internationals or have played a certain amount of first team games say 75% in a season in the NRL.
I think good Aussie/Kiwi players enhance the competition, making SL more interesting and entertaining, they also make our players play better and bring over better training regimes and improve the clubs in the bottom half or SL's playing standard too if they get picked up by them.
By winding down the overseas quote and the cap not being inline with the NRL, and especially with the Aussie $ whacking the GBP, I think it's time to be more active with this part of the sport and move quickly as times change.'"
Saddy, i can't believe this post.
Some clubs still have 8 or 9 overseas players, is that not enough ?
Do you really want more Brett Seymour's ?
FFS, what is wrong creating more opportunities for home grown players and trying to produce your own superstars, which in turn helps the National side.
English RL needs to lose this infatuation with overseas players.
As an Aussie myself, i am far more interested in watching Tom Lineham & Kallum Watkins than some 3rd rate Aussie/Kiwi.
