Quote SmokeyTA="SmokeyTA"And yet neither could get a game with a top SL club either because they had better players. Tansey was already on his way out at Leeds, most people over here were shocked he got close to the Roosters never mind actually made first grade. Mathers was a good young player where injuries went wrong, but he still didnt leave as the best FB in SL when he was playing first grade for Gold Coast.
How many more names do you want? Luke Burgess was a back up/reserve Prop for Leeds and does exactly the same job for the Rabbitohs.
Lee Mossop and Remi Casty werent even the best players on their team, never mind being the best in SL and they still got contracts in the NRL,
For every Mick Dobson and Pat Richards, there is Daniel Holdsworth or Nathan Blacklock, for every Kylie Lueluai there is a Ben Cross or a Willie Mason.'"
The part you are leaving out is the players that you have named that are playing part time in Oz are in the main fringe players.
Many of the Australians that were reserve players in Oz like Dobson or average Club players like Richards that were name players in Super League.
Australian Clubs have brought over players like Mathers and Tansey for next to nothing to see if they can be the next George Burgess, when its obvious they are not going to make it they are released or tapped on the shoulder.
Its not as if they were expensive experiments.
The only English players that have been developed in England and done well in the NRL in recent times is Sam Burgess and Graham.
Watch the rest of the Burgess boys get spun away from Souths in the next year or so.
