Quote: 49er "Think you will find that, despite a small recent improvement, the £ is still down by nearly 20% compared with 12 months ago on the Aus $.'"
Quote: 49er "Well there is an upside to all this. Over the last 12 months, for some reason or other, the pound has dropped by around 20-25 % against the Euro and US dollar (although it's doing very well against the Zimbabwean currency, which I think is called the dried elephant turd). But anyway, it's also dropped by the same amount against the Aussie dollar. Hence Aussie stars will soon be completely out of reach for RL clubs and we will not have to worry about contract problems at all.
..... course that does mean our better players are dirt cheap for the NRL so we may lose a few more, but it will allow some of our past academy players like Danny Bridge, Glen Riley, Ryan Shaw etc a chance to play SL. And of course it would be great to welcome the likes of Jordan Cox and Anthony England back again. If it wasn't for the contract problems, we might even have asked Roy Asotasi to ......, no I think perhaps that really is going a bit far.'"
Interestingly the pound was in a worse state back in the times afer the credit crunch from 2010 to 2013 when we won two cups and a LLS. ...
From memory superleague was full of Aussie stars back then...Monaghans Hodgson Hoffman finch Blake green. Etc. .
I don't think it's anything to do with conversion rates at all its the fact that Segeyaro sandow and solomona are greedy and don't respect the people that offered them a life line or a chance and paid them well. ...very well in some cases.
They have snatched the first better offer that has come their way.
Whats worse is that all three houses will end up at clubs that denied any initial interest in them. ..
Its business but dirty business if you ask me. I hope all parties get their just deserts. ..
