Quote ="Sal Paradise"The original point was how can sending our best players to the NRL benefit the game - my opinion is we need to make the international game more competitive, having our best players being conditioned, coached and playing alongside and against the best every week can only be a positive.
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It would be terrible for the game in this country, we would have lost all our best players.
Quote Are the top players in SL comparable to the very best in NRL - not really, in the NRL there are - depending on position - 4-8 players in every position in the NRL that are better than any player in SL in the same position. If we talk about the centres it could be into double figures such is the derth of talent in SL'"
You mean centres like Brett Delany who is probably the 4th best centre at Leeds behind two kids and a back rower? Centres like Matt King who got shunted out on the wing for a player who cant even get in the elite training side in Ryan Atkins? Or Clinton Toopi? There isnt 4-8 players better than the best English players. There are some very good British players, and some very very good Australians, but there are also a fair few who are pretty damn average.
Quote Roby should be better than Buderus - Buderus was well past his best when he came to Leeds - the fact he is still able to compete shows what a player he was at his peak. Roby is not as good as Issac Luke, Robbie Farah, Michael Ennis so to say he is the second best hooker in the world is a matter of conjecture not fact. He looks good in a poor league - the three I mentioned look good in a top league. It could be argued that Michael Monaghan is the best hooker in SL and not Roby'"
It is a matter of conjecture that Luke, Farah or Ennis are better than Roby not fact. Wayne Bennett has said that Buderus is the equal of Ennis, considering it is accepted by even you that Roby is a better player than Buderus, so it follows, unless you disagree with Wayne Bennett that Roby is better than Ennis.
Quote In the last 20 years the Aussies system has also produced Benji Marshall, Brad Fittler and Laurie Daley so to say Lockyer is a once in a generation player isn't quite correct. The Aussies will produce another Lockyer in the next five years.'"
Bloody hell, we are going back to freddie fittler and Laurie Daley? Brad Fittler is 40 years old, how old do you think he was when the Aussies started bringing him through, Laurie Daley is 42, and he retired 13 years ago. Australia havent produced a Lockyer since Lockyer because he was such an outstanding player. lets not beat ourselves up that we arent producing once in a generation players. Even the best do it rarely.
