Quote Deano G="Deano G"I imagine most of them won't even have heard of Meninga. But even the odd Saints fan that has heard of him won't rate him.
Meninga was arguably the most complete RL player ever (and certainly the best player I've seen in c.25 years of watching the game), but that's irrelevant. His power, pace and brilliant hands count for nothing. It was pre-SL, you see. Apparently they were all amateurs back then, unfit and pretty useless all-round compared with today's Soopah Doopah "athletes".'"
What does an Aussie coming over here for one season have to do with the standard of British RL?
The seasons didn't overlap then and playing over here didn't preclude you from playing for Australia.
Under the same conditions I'm sure we'd see the likes of Inglis (who looks as dominant a centre in the Aussie competition as Meninga did and may even go on to better him) and Slater over here for off season cash. But guess what? GB would still get smashed until we did something about the intensity of the league and the juniors we develop.