www.sportal.com.au/league/nrl-pr ... hlkkezochc When i saw this I thought we might be in for a home grown marquee

www.sportal.com.au/league/nrl-pr ... hlkkezochc When i saw this I thought we might be in for a home grown marquee

A rugby league player is a rugby league player. Whether he's from overseas or Over Hulton. There are rules in place saying that you can only has a certain amount of overseas players and we all stick to that. I have no problem if teams are at the limit or have none. There are only two leagues worth taking notice of in the whole world in our sport so any player from anywhere should not be discriminated against to get the opportunity to play in either one of those leagues, because where else are they going to go? Chile? Jamaica? Norway? Russia? just so a homegrown but possibly worse player can play instead?

We already have around 22 homegrown players at Wire in and around the first team squad, around 11 of which are from our own Academy (that was just off the top of my head I might have miscounted by the odd one). And that's true ofa few teams. Yet our competition is substandard compared to the other decent league worldwide.

So why not drive the quality up by getting some better overseas players in?

Because then you won't win the homegrown cup!

If Gary Wheeler is what this country produces then I say sod the quota. But then there is the likes of Roy....

I've just properly counted and we have 24 of 28 first team squad players who are homegrown at Wire and 15 are club trained with us. Just FOUR overseas players out of 28. I'm absolutely sure we can just squeeze in a couple more without disgruntling the rugby league community Rogues!

Let's get more average home grown youngsters...they're great!! Let's bloody win a grand final by hook or by crook and we might kick on. The league is average and we're in the perfect position to rise above it yet seem content to wallow along with the dross.

even our ex players know we need more props