Expansion confirmed, 60 more first graders needed!

[Gobsmacked]

100%

super league, PNG, Fiji as well schoolboy/junior union talent from NZ, south Africa, Fiji, samoa and Tonga.

longer term North America, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands etc.

possibly even Argentina.

I think we should be interesting in Jamaica too. Set up some clubs and high performance pathways there.

 

[Jonty]

I think we should be interesting in Jamaica too. Set up some clubs and high performance pathways there.

Jamaica and the entire Caribbean region produce some phenomenal athletes.

I actually think there is a domestic RL competition in jamaica or there was not so long ago.

 

[Perth Red]

You're such a dud. Moving mountains starts by moving one stone at a time.

Often said by someone whose never tried to move a mountain. I think you'll find those that have would suggest large amounts of explosives and a lot of effort are far more effective.

And to that analogy it would take massive investment and commitment in any of these places to produce anything like regular amounts of first graders.

But yeh lets pretend if it brightens your day.

 

[Trifili13]

I think we should be interesting in Jamaica too. Set up some clubs and high performance pathways there.

Maybe tell Albo that the commie Cubans are invading Jamaica and he can find another 600m of taxpayer money to fund a team there. Sorted.

What's the next country that has barely heard of rugby league are we expanding to?

 

[Gobsmacked]

Often said by someone whose never tried to move a mountain. I think you'll find those that have would suggest large amounts of explosives and a lot of effort are far more effective.

And to that analogy it would take massive investment and commitment in any of these places to produce anything like regular amounts of first graders.

But yeh lets pretend if it brightens your day.

My days are always bright mate.

Living in sunny Perth, well paid and just granted your own NRL. While your SL team sits at the top of the ladder yet can't seem to muster any enthusiasm ...
You can take the man out of Hull but you can’t take the Hull out of the man.

 

[Jonty]

Maybe tell Albo that the commie Cubans are invading Jamaica and he can find another 600m of taxpayer money to fund a team there. Sorted.

What's the next country that has barely heard of rugby league are we expanding to?

All jokes aside for a heavily sanctioned and embargoed island country Cuba has a remarkable history of producing top and world class athletes.

 

[Gobsmacked]

Maybe tell Albo that the commie Cubans are invading Jamaica and he can find another 600m of taxpayer money to fund a team there. Sorted.

What's the next country that has barely heard of rugby league are we expanding to?

They played in the last WC mate.
And no body said expand there, I said develop talent there.
Have you got a place in mind that produces better athletes?

 

[T-Boon]

They played in the last WC mate.
And no body said expand there, I said develop talent there.
Have you got a place in mind that produces better athletes?

Tingha.

 

[Jonty]

They played in the last WC mate.
And no body said expand there, I said develop talent there.
Have you got a place in mind that produces better athletes?

Absolute long-shot but what about combines held in Jamaica, Cuba and hawaii etc??

 

[Trifili13]

All jokes aside for a heavily sanctioned and embargoed island country Cuba has a remarkable history of producing top and world class athletes.

Agree

 

[Trifili13]

They played in the last WC mate.
And no body said expand there, I said develop talent there.
Have you got a place in mind that produces better athletes?

And who is going to pay for developing the talent?
The NRL has plenty of other places (UK, France, South Africa, Argentina, PNG, PI's, etc) where league and union are played that are not fully tapped and can develop more than enough talent to feed into new teams entering the competition than looking at Jamaicans.

 

[Perth Red]

Best we could do is set up talent scout programs in other countries and try and find the RL relevant best 15-17 year olds in other sports and try and convince them to move to Australia. Beyond that it would take a lot of money and a lot of time to actually build RL systems in any country. NRL hasnt even done that in the obvious places like PNG, NZ and Fiji so the chance of them doing it in Sth Africa or the Caribbean are slim to none.

 

[Jonty]

Best we could do is set up talent scout programs in other countries and try and find the RL relevant best 15-17 year olds in other sports and try and convince them to move to Australia. Beyond that it would take a lot of money and a lot of time to actually build RL systems in any country. NRL hasnt even done that in the obvious places like PNG, NZ and Fiji so the chance of them doing it in Sth Africa or the Caribbean are slim to none.

NRL combine in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria.

 

[Red&BlackBear]

Best we could do is set up talent scout programs in other countries and try and find the RL relevant best 15-17 year olds in other sports and try and convince them to move to Australia. Beyond that it would take a lot of money and a lot of time to actually build RL systems in any country. NRL hasnt even done that in the obvious places like PNG, NZ and Fiji so the chance of them doing it in Sth Africa or the Caribbean are slim to none.

It’s generational bud. You start by aiming for ex-pats Saffa’s living in WA who have SAfrica heritage kids either born here or born there at a relative young age. These kids likely in RU systems at the moment or will likely be going into an RU system whilst there’s no WA NRL club.

After a decade or so you’ll have fruition. After two decades plus you might start seeing off shoots directly from SAfrica however, need to get the local WA living Saffa’s involved for them to take it to SAfrica. This is how the game was built in relation to Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and Māori’s in NZ over decades.

Look at the footy landscape in late 1980s vs mid 2020’s.

For years you have criticised the game for not being bold or thinking big, now the game is being bold and thinking big and you mock it. Thats an absolute dunce mentality you have mate.

 

[Perth Red]

It’s generational bud. You start by aiming for ex-pats Saffa’s living in WA who have SAfrica heritage kids either born here or born there at a relative young age. These kids likely in RU systems at the moment or will likely be going into an RU system whilst there’s no WA NRL club.

After a decade or so you’ll have fruition. After two decades plus you might start seeing off shoots directly from SAfrica however, need to get the local WA living Saffa’s involved for them to take it to SAfrica. This is how the game was built in relation to Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and Māori’s in NZ over decades.

Look at the footy landscape in late 1980s vs mid 2020’s.

For years you have criticised the game for not being bold or thinking big, now the game is being bold and thinking big and you mock it. Thats an absolute dunce mentality you have mate.

sorry to bring a dose of realism into your Barbie world. But sure lets come back and have the argument in 30 years or so lol

 

[Perth Red]

NRL combine in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria.

Id suggest having scouts at the top school comps is worth more than a combine. end of day you want to be watching kids over a number of games and even years and how they are developing before uprooting them from their country and investing a load of money into them.

 

[Jonty]

Id suggest having scouts at the top school comps is worth more than a combine. end of day you want to be watching kids over a number of games and even years and how they are developing before uprooting them from their country and investing a load of money into them.

That too.

nothing wrong with inviting a few kids who are being scouted by NRL clubs along with a few of their teammates down to an NRL combine .

creates a buzz in the union schools that the NRL scouts are in town waving about their big fat chequebooks.

 

[BuffaloRules]

NRL combine in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria.

Rugby types over there will be waiting to lynch the NRL folk …or maybe give them a necklacing …

They are not very tolerant of RL in those parts

 

[Red&BlackBear]

sorry to bring a dose of realism into your Barbie world. But sure lets come back and have the argument in 30 years or so lol

Realism? It’s on you that you have 0 clue about how the game was in the 80s to how it’s come along into today and how saying/predicting back then that there would be a large contingent of pasifik players making up the numbers in NRL/pro rugby league today would be laughed at by lesser intelligent people back then albeit with less worldly information available at their finger tips.

Congratulations, you’ve proven to once again be a lesser intelligent person and it’s in this day & age and that’s with all the information available at your finger tips. The game is literally growing before your very eyes so stop covering your eyes - it’s no excuse for not being able to see it. Wisen up bud.

 

[jim_57]

Isn’t RL in South Africa still under RU’s running? It was ruled to be “a different form of the same sport” like 7’s from memory.

Not to say the NRL can’t come in and pinch some players and maybe gain some fans but it won’t ever gain much traction locally in that situation.