I'll just refer you to this what I said earlier:

We don't have another halfback who's fit in the squad, so you're saying you're comparing Horne's performances as a halfback to other players playing different positions? Seems a bit fishy. Are you judging Horne's performances on what he creates in a game (that's his job as a halfback as opposed to the other players you're comparing him too) or just his effort?

I'm saying to compare Horne to other halfbacks in other teams is therefore important because it's putting things into context. When you do that, you realise that Horne shouldn't be in your top 3 because he doesn't do what a halfback should do consistently enough.

This what I'm saying isn't all that controversial, and some will agree with me when they realise Horne cannot keep up this form for the entirety of the year. People are just being overly optimistic at the moment, even me, I can't wait until Holdsworth and Ellis are back. It's just some people don't like people who put a downer on things, I guess.

The problem is that the nrl and union have a cap double that of rugby league, this gives them the opportunity to poach the best players from our competition. Next year there are already some big names heading to the nrl...how many more to follow. Also our clubs now have little chance of bringing in any quality Australians because they can get paid alot more back home. While this maybe great for the up coming youngsters who will now get a game, in the big picture, can super league survive. Crowds are dwindling, sponsorship seems to be very hard to come by, and the people steering the ship seem to have few answers

On the other hand, very few clubs could afford any increase in the cap, so you'd either get even more of a gulf/monopoly than there already is or clubs going pop as rapidly as bubble wrap through a mangle.

There is only one answer, and it's to produce more players through the youth systems. The only questions are whether this can be done enough, and how in the hell scaling back to the 19s system will help to achieve that?

Basically no club apart from Leeds can survive without a sugar daddy so just bloody scrap the cap and let the sugar daddys pay for the best players before SL is just a league of players nobody else wants.

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