Quote ="JB Down Under"How many people go into sport at 12 or 13 with the intention of doing it to make money? Generally you love the game and are good at it, everything else just happens. Become a RL player and you can earn an above avg living, become a very good RL player and you can earn a very good living. Paying top players an extra 50K quid would make no difference what so ever to the depth of the talent pool in the game. Taking 2million quid a year out of SL and using it to develop jnr elite RL programmes would.
RL doesn't need to be the number 1 sport in the country, it just needs to keep growing and be sustainable.'"
Agreed, although cutting the number of pro teams will make the target smaller for those who are "good enough" and as mentioned previously, I think this will propagate a further decline in the top tier.
We need to attract additional investment to improve the game, not keep cutting back, unless we are admitting that this cannot be done ??
