QRL Intrust Super Cup - Finals 2017

[XXXX Cap]

They do defend well - as long as nerves don't get to to them at the start like last Sunday.

 

[mikail-eagle]

Hunters getting canned at the moment.

 

[siv]

Thats 2 years in a row a RG full of NRL 18-36 players has smashed a Qld club that only fields 3 or 4 NRL players

The gap continues to widen as the NRL Salary Cap grows

A club almost full of partime footballers cannot compete with a NRL aligned NSW club almost full with fulltime professional playing group

 

[XXXX Cap]

There is a bit more to it than that.

PNG have had a long season, have done a huge amount of travelling and live away from their families.

They won the game that mattered last Sunday, went home as national heroes (which I doubt the Penrith players are considered), then had to regroup and travel from Port Moresby to Sydney for this.

I'm sure most of the players just want to get back to their families, wives and girlfriends - something they have only done on the two bye rounds since the season started. It is a concept that Sydney based teams would be clueless about, given their whole competition is essentially taking place within a 200km radius. Travelling to a different country every second week and living in camp for the entire season like PNG do must be a huge effort.

That said, the quality of Premiers does change year by year in both comps, Northern Pride were an outstanding team in 2014, Burleigh last year and PNG this year less so.

 

[mikail-eagle]

The Hunters looked like a very tired team in that first half yesterday. The attitude in defence that they have displayed all year just wasn't there. They showed it a little in the 2nd half when they kept the Panthers to a single try.

And in hindsight maybe they should have just stayed in Brisbane after their ISC Grand Final win instead of travelling back to PNG on a Monday, train 2 days Wednesday and Thursday and than flying an even longer distance to Sydney on a Friday.

 

[T-Boon]

Thats 2 years in a row a RG full of NRL 18-36 players has smashed a Qld club that only fields 3 or 4 NRL players

The gap continues to widen as the NRL Salary Cap grows

A club almost full of partime footballers cannot compete with a NRL aligned NSW club almost full with fulltime professional playing group

Get rid of reserve grade. NSW & QLD cup should be independent clubs with no affiliation to the NRL or its clubs.

 

[XXXX Cap]

Good in theory but the NRL squad players who don't make the top 17 each week have to play somewhere.

You can't manage that properly without some sort of affiliation.

 

[siv]

Good in theory but the NRL squad players who don't make the top 17 each week have to play somewhere.

You can't manage that properly without some sort of affiliation.

National RG solves the problem

Then T-Boon's idea will work as then NSW/RM Cup can be truely evolve into setup like Queensland setup

 

[siv]

There is a bit more to it than that.

PNG have had a long season, have done a huge amount of travelling and live away from their families.

They won the game that mattered last Sunday, went home as national heroes (which I doubt the Penrith players are considered), then had to regroup and travel from Port Moresby to Sydney for this.

I'm sure most of the players just want to get back to their families, wives and girlfriends - something they have only done on the two bye rounds since the season started. It is a concept that Sydney based teams would be clueless about, given their whole competition is essentially taking place within a 200km radius. Travelling to a different country every second week and living in camp for the entire season like PNG do must be a huge effort.

That said, the quality of Premiers does change year by year in both comps, Northern Pride were an outstanding team in 2014, Burleigh last year and PNG this year less so.

There lies a basic problem in how the Tier 2 Cups are being setup

Too much travelling which when you add U20s is way too costly for a Tier 2 operation

QRL needs to subsidise travel costs

 

[XXXX Cap]

QRL hasn't got any money.

 

[siv]

QRL hasn't got any money.

They get their cut from the NRL

After that it whatever the club decide to fund beyong their QRL grants

 

[Diehards]

The QRL have plenty.....

 

[XXXX Cap]

Depends who you talk to.......