Rugby Australia to target top NRL talent

[taste2taste]

Japanese rugby trying to poach Tigers young gun. This is the risk when league guns go to a Rugby school and dominate.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/heamasi-makasini-wests-tigers-rookie-spotted-meeting-former-wallabies-coach-and-current-japanese-wild-knights-boss-robbie-deans/news-story/58176d05ec78d5e993f9287070d1c466

 

[Wb1234]

Japanese rugby trying to poach Tigers young gun. This is the risk when league guns go to a Rugby school and dominate.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/heamasi-makasini-wests-tigers-rookie-spotted-meeting-former-wallabies-coach-and-current-japanese-wild-knights-boss-robbie-deans/news-story/58176d05ec78d5e993f9287070d1c466

Think wallabies want him too

Eddie jones love affair with rugby league continues

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

Think wallabies want him too

Eddie jones love affair with rugby league continues

Eddie Jones is a f**king snake.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Eddie Jones is a f**king snake.

Eddie Jones is a legend for bending the ARU over and putting his snake in their arse

 

[Billythekid]

Japanese rugby trying to poach Tigers young gun. This is the risk when league guns go to a Rugby school and dominate.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/heamasi-makasini-wests-tigers-rookie-spotted-meeting-former-wallabies-coach-and-current-japanese-wild-knights-boss-robbie-deans/news-story/58176d05ec78d5e993f9287070d1c466

We’re going to continue to lose players to union but as the NRL gets bigger and bigger it will be harder for them to poach players and less sustainable to do so.

 

[Perth Red]

Surely NRLW now goes raiding the olympic sevens teams from around the world?

 

[taste2taste]

Surely NRLW now goes raiding the olympic sevens teams from around the world?

Do WNRL players get paid more than Rugby 7s players ?

If so, then yeah they could poach a couple.

 

[Perth Red]

Do WNRL players get paid more than Rugby 7s players ?

If so, then yeah they could poach a couple.

maybe not NZ and OZ ones but Im sure the other countries aren't getting paid much. The Australian ladies 15 union team are on up to $72k from RA plus whatever clubs pay. Whats the NRLW salaries these days?

 

[Captain Apollo]

Do WNRL players get paid more than Rugby 7s players ?

If so, then yeah they could poach a couple.

Olympic gold medallists set to join NRLW

Kiwi gold medallists Tyla King, Stacey Waaka and Tenika Willison will join the NRLW - and more Rugby 7s stars are set to follow now their Olympic campaigns are over.

www.nrl.com

 

[Wb1234]

Olympic gold medallists set to join NRLW

Kiwi gold medallists Tyla King, Stacey Waaka and Tenika Willison will join the NRLW - and more Rugby 7s stars are set to follow now their Olympic campaigns are over.

www.nrl.com

Women’s World Cup could end up being being than the union version

 

[joel caine number 1 fan]

Japanese rugby trying to poach Tigers young gun. This is the risk when league guns go to a Rugby school and dominate.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/heamasi-makasini-wests-tigers-rookie-spotted-meeting-former-wallabies-coach-and-current-japanese-wild-knights-boss-robbie-deans/news-story/58176d05ec78d5e993f9287070d1c466

it's ok i would rather them go to union than to walk out and go to a top nrl team who are already unstopable
league is becoming worse than european football

 

[Thatwasnthighref]

it's ok i would rather them go to union than to walk out and go to a top nrl team who are already unstopable
league is becoming worse than european football

Whoa that's controversial... might stir up some hornets with that one

 

[Thatwasnthighref]

Olympic gold medallists set to join NRLW

Kiwi gold medallists Tyla King, Stacey Waaka and Tenika Willison will join the NRLW - and more Rugby 7s stars are set to follow now their Olympic campaigns are over.

www.nrl.com

Yea this came up in a few months ago... not just the 7s girls are doing this but the 15s as well.

And NZR aren't blocking it either. They're being (surprisingly) pragmatic and recognise the benefit for the players, given women's rugby programs here aren't full time yet.

Which is admirable, but if they obviously run the risk they will stay in league and be lost to women's rugby forever. And at the rate the NRLW is progressing, those girls will be on fulltime contracts far sooner than their rugby counterparts will be.

 

[Wb1234]

Yea this came up in a few months ago... not just the 7s girls are doing this but the 15s as well.

And NZR aren't blocking it either. They're being (surprisingly) pragmatic and recognise the benefit for the players, given women's rugby programs here aren't full time yet.

Which is admirable, but if they obviously run the risk they will stay in league and be lost to women's rugby forever. And at the rate the NRLW is progressing, those girls will be on fulltime contracts far sooner than their rugby counterparts will be.

How things have changed back in the day a stint in league would get a player banned for life

 

[Matua]

Is Garrick Morgan playing?

The slowest ever RL forward.

Grease lightning in Yawnion.

Sheesh, you're reaching, Morgan was a slow player in one of the slow player positions in rugby. I think the Crushers were drunk when they gave him a contract.

 

[Thatwasnthighref]

How things have changed back in the day a stint in league would get a player banned for life

Indeed, and I think that change is good.

I've said many times here that I think there's room for both codes to flourish. Anything that keeps players in either code is a good thing IMO. Much rather talented union juniors play NRL, or talented league juniors play SR, than pick up a basketball, soccer ball or golf club.

 

[Thatwasnthighref]

Sheesh, you're reaching, Morgan was a slow player in one of the slow player positions in rugby. I think the Crushers were drunk when they gave him a contract.

Like Souths were when they signed Eion Crossan. I reckon his agent is still laughing to this day.

 

[Matua]

Like Souths were when they signed Eion Crossan. I reckon his agent is still laughing to this day.

Somehow he managed to rack up 45 first grade matches.

TBF, Halligan seemed like as much of a joke when he switched (he was probably the least attackingly gifted of all the early 90s NZ rugby converts) and he was an unqualified success. So who knows?

 

[Thatwasnthighref]

Somehow he managed to rack up 45 first grade matches.

TBF, Halligan seemed like as much of a joke when he switched (he was probably the least attackingly gifted of all the early 90s NZ rugby converts) and he was an unqualified success. So who knows?

Yea maybe I'm being harsh... Cronulla picked him up after Souths so there mustve been something there. But I distinctly remember him literally backing into tackles on kick returns, and it not getting much better over his career. As a Kiwi it was almost embarrassing to see.

From memory there were hopes he'd bring his goal kicking attributes over like Ridge and Halligan, but in the end he lacked Ridgey's mongrel streak and ultimately didnt kick as well as Hallligan either.