Ad hominem again!

You can't address the argument, so you attack the arguer.

My premises stand:

There's nothing that Horne's done this year that can't be done comfortably by another capable halfback given the promise that the rest of the squad has. He has had the majority of a mediocre season thus far, with only peak in form for the previous few games, performing at the standard we should demand of our halfback to play at every week. This peak does not justify the other mediocre performances Horne has put in this season so far.

And the conclusion:

We will NOT be making any impact in the playoffs against the top teams if he's in your top 3 and your standards stay the same. More importantly, if Gentle's standards reflect yours.

I'd love to be proven wrong folks, but it seems you're all incapable of showing me instances that show that Horne has performed at this level for the majority of the year.

Hint: have a look at the games and see what he's done, or the lack of what he's done.

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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