Manly executive saying our game is second class,what do you think.We always say we are catching up but i have to say at International level we are going backwards.

He has a point !

Aussie RL is a fave of mine of Setanta.IMO Most games knock the sox of ours !

Manly chief executive is a crank who is trying to stirr things up before the WCC. Fair enough our game isn't up to NRL standard yet, but i wouldnt say second class.

That bit is a clue as to the fact we ARE second class at club and International level.

He is trying to make a case to stop the drain of top Australian Players leaving NRL ..He is trying to undermine our game ..it cannot be that bad last Week record Crowds turned out.. it was voted the best valued sport for the money to see our game .. And fans want to see these Australians who are suppose to just be hear for a early pension ..Its just sour grapes ..He has to hit out at somebody because New Zealand beat them in the World Cup ..I don't read top Australian Players Knocking our game

Second class is not the right word for it though. The guy just knows they need every advantage they can get if they are to beat Leeds.

We are not in the same class full stop.

Still proud of where our game is now though, were no too far off

This sounds to me as if he's trying to defuse the internal split in the Manly board which is well documented in the Aussie presss, and which he is obviously afraid will upset his own team. Ignore him, and Leeds will have all our teams cheering them on to another WC victory......grannyfan Cindy

I don't think his opinion counts for anything tbh, his opinion is no more valid than someone on here.

Purely stirring up things before the WCC.

Second class is a bit OTT but he has a point that we are way off where we would want to be.

We are not second class, the NRL is better but that is hardly breaking news is it.

Like I said earlier, he is just trying to stir things up ahead of the WCC.

You are having a laugh aren't you, the aussie comp and the national team are streets ahead of this country like it or not. So yes second class i say isn't far wrong

Get real mate, we'll light years behind not just the aussies but the Kiwi's. At club level if you took out all the overseas players our game is well and truly second class.

As for international level we were closer to the aussies when we were a part time sport FFS.

Totally agree and listening to Eddie on Boots 'N' All trying to defend the SL was cringeworthy! Has he forgotten the WC already?

But then we will win the WCC which the aussies never take seriously and be dis-illusioned that we are the best again!

But Oz tv just shelled out millions to show Superleague games this year if i remember rightly a record deal.

Coverage means they are interested i guess, doesnt really mean our sport is competetive though.

Yeh and we buy Home & Away & Neighbours

If they would start filming prisoner cell block H again and add that to those 2 it would be a fairer swap!!

Well James Graham & Rob Burrows are dead ringers for Bea Smith & Lizzie.

i think aus rugby is better but not in a different class

superleague clubs can beat aussie clubs just in the world cup all there best players outshine ours

I find it difficult to tell the difference between the NRL and the WWF. I prefer Super League to wrestling any day.

Comparing Super League to the NRL is like comparing 5 a side football to a full pitch game.