If a draft was introduced, the NRL would do so with the intention of centralising development (i just dont believe they would be dumb enough to think clubs would maintain the funding).
The funds for this would probably come at least in part from a reduction in club grants; basically removing the middleman.
Centralised development isnt neceserally bad and it definitely has some big benefits, but it would be a massive shift that would need serious planning....
I understand all of that.
It's just the way that he was suggesting that the NRL should just institute a draft in year or so time (like the Newspapers do when they say that the NRL must have a draft) is asinine as it overlooks all the work that would have to be undertaken before the NRL would be at a point where it can have a draft.
BTW, personally I've never really liked the idea of drafts (simply because the idea of forcing someone to live and work somewhere they don't necessarily want to live and work doesn't sit right with me, and the fact that it's a lot harder (to the point that it's almost impossible) for a kid work his/her way through the ranks to one day represent his/her hometown/favorite team if they so wish to seems a shame to me) and as of yet I've never seen a draft that actually spreads out talent more evenly across a competition giving smaller and less successful clubs better talent to help develop their teams and become successful much more quickly then it usually takes to turn a club around, which is literally what a draft is supposed to do.
I mean if drafts were half as good at spreading talent as some people make out that they are the Melbourne demons and the Oakland Raiders would have teams full of champions by now, but I guess that at this point drafts aren't really about spreading talent evenly anymore they're about having another product to sell to the media and the public, and honestly if that's the only reason that we are trying to introduce one then I don't see the point as there're plenty of other products that we could develop and/or copy to sell without introducing what is in my opinion a sham and a shame.
You wrote it, you think it is true.
Everything i write you have to say the opposite. They even wrote a story in the paper today about negative league supporters, trying to put a damper on everything every event, every contest.
I could say the sky was blue, you would try to tell me it's not, it's green.
Again I didn't say the opposite or even the negative, I just said that your suggestions were impractical and that your arguments for your idea and against anybodies else's were largely inconsequential.
But since you don't seem to understand what either impractical or inconsequential means, since you continue to equate them to meaning negative and opposite, then I guess I'm just wasting my time repeating that to you.
Wayne Bennett has already mentioned the junior development would need to be taken over by the NRL if a draft was introduced.
That's good for Wayne Bennett.
Like many things have to change. You cant just click your fingers and ideas are perfect. You have to work on them to make new ideas work.
But introducing a draft isn't changing an idea, it's completely changing the whole god damn system that the NRL uses to develop talent, which I don't really have any problem with changing (even to include a draft, which as I said to The Doctor I'm not really a big fan of), I'm just pointing out that it's a little harder to change then you're making out!
I am not saying a draft is easy,
I never said you were, you are however underestimating just how hard it would be to introduce to the NRL.
but dismissing it is easy.
Dismissing the all-stars game is easy, and the nines, the world club challenge because it is too far to travel, and any other ideas.
I'm not dismissing a draft, nor have I dismissed either the All-Stars or the WCC (though I do believe that both these ideas can and should be developed into better ideas, products and at the end of the day competitions then they currently are and that people shouldn't be afraid to let them develop into better things).