I refuse to accept the argument that players going to the NRL will all of a sudden improve the national team.

Yes it has worked with NZ, why wouldn't it? They didn't have a high standard of competition before that. They rely on their best players playing in the NRL to have a strong national side.

We on the other hand have our own competition and the best way to match the aussies would be to improve super league to NRL's standard, not send our best players to make their comp better.

We need to keep ALL of our best players in this competition while taking some of the best from the NRL. The only way of doing that is to stop holding the top clubs back with the salary cap.

We need to pay our best players more so we can keep them and also have the likes of Marshall and Thurston playing in super league. We could also take the best players from Union etc.

Easier said than done, but it is certainly not working with a 14 team league. It must be 10 teams so each club can get as much sky money as possible. It is pretty clear that the top clubs could afford a higher salary cap as it is, why oh why are we preventing them keeping the best players (e.g.Tomkins) and stopping them from getting the best players from the NRL? Surely both of those things would improve super league even if some teams did get left behind... they are getting left behind as it is anyway!!!

It will make it a much easier pill to swallow if Sam goes to the NRL. We can still enjoy watching him play this great sport as well as him turning out for England. I really cant see him going to Union and to be honest part of me expects Joel to come back to League next season.

What I can see happening in the next year or two is for Sam to dump the Pies for a few years in Australia,then come back to England to sign for the mighty Wire, his boyhood club.

That may be right.
Sam goes to Aus when he's 25. Plays there for six or seven years as Moz did then returns with Wire signing him at 32/3 on a four year deal.
His age is right for a Wire signing so that might not be far off!