Wellsy13 wrote:For now they can target gridiron players that don't make it, yes. But they will never be a force in the RL world if they continue to do this as the players will not have developed many of the skills needed to play RL and will most likely not have enough time to master them to as extent that they will become expert. They need to get people playing in schools to develop this earlier. That will obviously come with time, but the way people are talking it appears that they think they will be able to build a competitive team out of gridiron converts which in most likeliness will not be the case. They may be good athletes, but that doesn't mean they'll be good RL players.
The USA has enough prime athletes to destroy the existing RL nations, England especially within a couple of years of professionalism.
Lets not forget that the USA national side was beating Australia at half time in their recent encounter, so it's not like they would have to progress that much to beat England.
Big Picture wrote:The college game may be faster, but televised NCAA games have just as many ad breaks as NFL ones.
Sure, to make it to TV the sport needs ad breaks, we'll follow Association Football's approach to the problem.
I know people who were big Football" fans who went to an NFL match and hated it. Possibly it's more of a spectator and less of a tV sport, which again has parallels with Union and League in the UK.
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Quote:MISSION To bring Professional Rugby League to America VISION To provide the growing nationwide audience of rugby enthusiasts in America, both athlete and fan, with the highest quality, hard hitting and exciting team sports experience at an affordable price NRL 2010 8 Team owners with world class coaches 22 Man Fulltime Professional Rosters Spring/Summer Season 14 Week Regular Season 3 Week Playoff/Championship Series NRL MESSAGE The NRL will field teams comprised of the best rugby players in America, and from around the world. There are thousands of elite athletes looking to aspire to professional competition. The NRL will provide that opportunity.
The NRL will be holding nationwide tryouts in selected cities throughout Summer/Fall 2009.
Tryouts will be open to all athletes, both American and foreign.
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I can see it now -
"Freaking play the ball in the offensive ten, kick to corner, caught by wingman, TRAPPED IN THE END ZONE."
"It's a central stick kick, over to you Chad."
I can't wait.
If the yanks do put their mind to it though they will probably dominate. As they would most sports with the finance and numbers of youngsters they can throw at it.
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