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Rugby Australia to target top NRL talent

Thatwasnthighref

Thatwasnthighref

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Wb1234 said:

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Catalans sign some union player


google says Samoan international

given the Samoan rugby union are going broke this isn’t a shock

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The Samoan rugby union issues won’t have had a bearing, he’s been playing in the French Top 14 for the last few seasons.

Played a lot of SR before heading offshore and was talked about as a potential AB at one point. Big guy with good pace once he gets going… but not the most light footed either.

Weird move TBH. Might’ve made sense 6-7yrs ago but dunno about now.
 
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The NRL is set to deliver a hammer blow to the Wallabies’ rugby union talent factory by muscling in on the city’s prestigious GPS private school sporting competition, with rugby league boss Andrew Abdo saying “the door is more open now than it’s ever been.”
It can be revealed senior bosses at the National Rugby League have already held meetings with some of Sydney’s most elite private boys schools in an official push to introduce rugby league as a GPS sport, for the first time in over 100 years. It is a move which would shatter Wallabies fans’ hearts in the historic rugby union heartland.

NRL CEO Andrew Abdo has told The Daily Telegraph the ARL “Commission is very focused on this, and they’ve given us the task of developing a strategy to do just that, and that is, build a relationship.”

 
The Man Shake

The Man Shake

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taste2taste said:
The NRL is set to deliver a hammer blow to the Wallabies’ rugby union talent factory by muscling in on the city’s prestigious GPS private school sporting competition, with rugby league boss Andrew Abdo saying “the door is more open now than it’s ever been.”
It can be revealed senior bosses at the National Rugby League have already held meetings with some of Sydney’s most elite private boys schools in an official push to introduce rugby league as a GPS sport, for the first time in over 100 years. It is a move which would shatter Wallabies fans’ hearts in the historic rugby union heartland.

NRL CEO Andrew Abdo has told The Daily Telegraph the ARL “Commission is very focused on this, and they’ve given us the task of developing a strategy to do just that, and that is, build a relationship.”

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Another nail in union’s coffin. If students are given a choice between playing union and league, which sport would hold more appeal?
 
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Mother Nature's Son

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The Man Shake said:
Another nail in union’s coffin. If students are given a choice between playing union and league, which sport would hold more appeal?
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This is as much about stopping fumbleball from muscling on this as well, I believe that many private schools run fumbleball programmes as well now, they know this is where a lot of people who go into the corporate world are educated.
Hopefully we`ll start to see something similar done with the universities, another place where f-ball posts have sprung up everywhere and for the same reasons.
More room taken up by League, less room for the other crowd.
It`s a virtuous circle in so many ways.
 
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