An article by the lurker(yeah I know) in the sportingnews.com/au

"After knocking back offers from NRL clubs for the best part of a decade, former Wallaby Quade Cooper is set to change codes next season - but in England.

Two British clubs are keen on the 29-year-old playmaker, who is back in Australia playing with the Queensland Reds after two years in France. Cooper played league as a kid and has been the target of lucrative offers from the likes of Melbourne and Parramatta over the years - and said ‘no’ every time.

But the talented flyhalf feels it is a case of now or never as he heads towards the end of his career and his manager is talking to two clubs in Super League. Cooper has the football brain and skills to make a go of it in league and his progress will be watched with keen interest by NRL clubs if he makes the jump."

If he does its because he wants to go to the NRL but hasn't got the bottle to start in reserve grade. He's a talented player in some ways but a bit erratic and a poor defender.

I don't believe he rejected the NRL. He got exposed badly at a world cup which saw NRL sides think twice as defensively he would get destroyed in rugby league.

He definitely knocked back Paramatta the year before the union world cup. Then he got exposed badly and lost all interest after that.

He better learn how to tackle that's for sure. He is gonna have to be pretty amazing in SL to catch NRL interest.

Wouldn't be surprised if this is work of his agent. Struggling to see who in SL would want him.

Unless it's Catalan

I didn't say he rejected the NRL as such - more likely that nobody would be willing to give him anything like the money he'd want and he'd have to start in reserve grade to prove himself. He may see SL as a way of maintaining his profile and getting paid more than an NRL side would give him. TBH I'd be surprised, he could probably earn far more in France or Japan in RU.

Is it really, more NRL fan arrogance/ignorance on display.

Are you seriously suggesting it would be easier for him in the NRL or that he'd prefer SL in the long term with its low profile and far lower wages?

My understanding is that was at least partly because he was asking Smith/Thurston (i.e Dally M, Golden Boot, Premiership winning playmaker) type money and the Eels offered the sort of dollars you'd pay Terry Campese.