Being out here in Oz for the last couple of years and watching the NRL week in week out, I think its good to see British players cutting it out here. Moz certainly paved the way , and now Ellis , Burgess and even Flanagan are going great guns,gaining the players respect and even the likes of cynics like Gus Gould and more importantly the RL fans who live and breathe the game out here. There are constant articles in the national press, segments on the likes of The Footy Show, and other RL shows profiling them interviewing them etc. Personally I'd like to see more of them out here , it will certainly help the international game.

Good luck to him. I'll always wish an Englishmen to do well playing in a country the other side of the world. Graham, for me, as earnt his chance to play in the NRL, and to test himself at the highest level week in week out, so good luck to him. He's a class player.

That's rubbish, very few of our exports fail.

Look at what Barca fans still think of Linekar for example, or look what Beckham did at Madrid.

Throw in Platt, Ince, Hoddle, Waddle, Wilkins, McManaman for good measure.

Even the ones like Owen or Woodgate were very highly thought of, yet people say they failed, they didn't, Owen was loved at Madrid by their fans. Yes, you get the odd Blissett or Hughes but laregly our players do well.

Back to SL, I think lots of our players would go well over there, I think some of our backs would too, playing off quality halves and getting good ball. I'd like to see a Ryan Hall, Chris Bridge, Kirk Yeaman give it a go. Gleeson was the one, clearly he's had his opportunities and not taken them but I would have really like to have seen him give the NRL a go.

Think about the basic logistics and infrastructure. He is going to a place where he will have to setup a home, have no support structure in place (outside Canterbury's welfare officer), all that comes a quite a healthy cost, even moreso if he decides to purchase a house out there.

So then that's going to negate the advantage of any salary increase he is getting.

I reckon you're just playing the "he will get getting paid well" card as a way of saying something negative about his decision. I bet if he had REALLY wanted to maximise his financial gain, he could have stayed in the UK and dropped hints to Warrington that he was interested, I am sure with players leaving us next year that he would have been able to get a big deal from us and he wouldn't have to relocate or anything. Even if that meant he could just leverage up his offer to stay at Saints, there were ways to play the finance card and stay in the UK.

Canterbury will have had to put a deal to Graham that is roughly in the ballpark of his market rate, to get him to consider. But NRL clubs are not short of talent on their own doorstep, so the idea that they would throw huge money at a guy who has never played in the NRL because they are that desperate is rubbish.

Every time we have signed players, we've been assured from other fans that they are only joining us because of the money. Remember when we signed Monaghan, the Hull fans said "yeah good player but not worth the price you're paying for him", Wigan fans said the same thing about Matt King. And then with Morley we had "yeah good player in his day but he's past his best and a 4 year contract LOL you're welcome to him, he will probably retire after 2"

Not in one instance I have denigrated Graham in his decision, quite the opposite. But to imply he would be financially impeded is foolish to say the least, after all this is his livelihood.

I find your imposition quite churlish.