First season NFL players are known as Rookies in their first season, and they've turned professional.

Over 1000 applied worldwide, 200 were chosen to attend trials in Australia and NZ, 28 rookies were then chosen from 200 trialists.

The NRL rookie ended up being way more popular then channel 9 thought it would be. Will be interesting too see if it just as popular next year.

I read an interview with one of the rookies who said they had a masseuse visit them every two days. Had coaches review video with the players every day.

Said they were treated like professional players. Not sure a version here would be like that.

If it done cheap then no point.

London Broncos did their "Prop Idol" contest way back in 2003 ! https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2003/ ... richardrae

London Broncos did their "Prop Idol" contest way back in 2003 ! https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2003/ ... richardrae

A british rugby league version is a total no go.

Exactly the same concept..........but for premier league football would be a massive goer.

So, the majority of the clubs must have given him 3 points to enable him to come first yet, only 2 clubs wanted him???
Didn't understand that.

Remember sky did one for football few years back and it flopped miserably

From what I remember the production and vision of the show was pretty poor.

Just watching the final on catch up now. Fair play to sky, had no idea they were showing it live.

I was confused. I thought they said he got a choice of all the clubs, so he got to choose of the 16. Not they say oh yes we'll have him then he chooses who's left.

I'd also like to know if more of them would have taken Jordan or Chris.

The clubs basically vote for who they think should win but no who they want. Clubs must have decided before they arrived they wasn't interested.

Remember the clubs will have seen all the video tapes/stats and not just the 9 weeks of TV. Plus I have no doubt the clubs would have had scouts watching this players in there A grade competition after filming ended

They had 1000 applications last year. I am guessing they will have lots more for season 2.

In regards to a UK version it would need the super league to put money behind it. The NRL would have put money behind this and not just channel 9.

Like I said few weeks ago, I wouldn't be surprised to see rugby union do something like this before super league.

If I was a super league I would definitely invite Chris Hyde over for a trial

Interested to see how the NRL rookie has rated on sky

Really enjoyed the programme overall but this live final went 10mph for over an hour then 100mph for the last 10 min. Hate it when they do that.

A few commercial breaks wouldn't have gone amiss either

There's no reason the next season couldn't be a joint UK/Aus/NZ event.
You could have UK trials and NZ trials and have the finalists meet in Sydney for a 12 week camp.
The first series had 2 guys from the UK and 4 or 5 from NZ. There is no reason it couldn't be 10 guys from the UK.

like the idea but we all know the NRL wouldnt do a joint competition with super league clubs.

I do think questions will be asked on how only two clubs wanted the winner.