Front-Rower said:
If you would of read what I said I said the problem with Super League was that they tried to bury the tradition in the game.
And If you read what I said...Super Leagues foundations were flawed, the planned competition was a travesty and its execution was a joke.The only positive thing to come out of Super League was The Video Ref...
You look at the competition this year, how many quality first graders are there running around at for instance Parramatta, Souths, Cronulla, Wests lucky too be about 3 or 4 in each team.
That's a load of BS. 'First Grade' is what you make of it, and all of those clubs have 'first grade' quality players. It's a matter of distributing talent equally. You could have 4 teams and there's still be a whipping boy. Not everyone can have a squad the quality of the Dogs or the Roosters.
In this hypothetical 4 team competition, people would probably claim the spooners didn't have enough 'first grade quality players'. It's all relative. Invest in juniors, and the quality would gradually increase. This years was the closest competed since 1991.
You want to make the competition a 20 team national game, go ahead throw the money around, build the competition to a truly national comp. But when it all back fires and there is no more rugby league don't start crying and remember even the Swans don't get that much support here in Sydney when they have an OK year.
Riiight. Adelaide and Perth aren't Markets like Sydney or Melbourne. They are Markets like Brisbane and Auckland, where the Lions and the Warriors have made a go of getting a chunk of the media spotlight and are celebrity.
A national comp never backfired in a fashion that would indicate that the game can't survive on a national platform. My personal desire would be an 18 team comp with the 3 biddees and two Sydney Relocations, but a long term strategy angling towards twenty teams is quite achievable.
While I think of it to. I suppose you have never been to Perth. Every second TV add has Perth Glory players in it. Thats where their TV money comes from. I don't see to many Manly players on TV adds.
I wasn't aware that players private advertising contracts impacted on the clubs finances. A few points:
A) I doubt these adds have Particularly impressive production values (market exclusive, a market smaller than NNSW and SNSW)
B) I doubt they Payed much for the players services
C) If they are on every second add, About 10 Freo and 20 WCE players must be in every add...
D) Boots and All showed an add with Big M.G. for something or other in Perth back in the mid 1990's!
