barham red wrote:Unfortunately the way of the world, we seem to rate the aussies much higher than we do own players. What will tend to happen over time if the quota reductions are successfully implemented (ie. residency / loopholes are closed) the you will tend to see British talent becoming the higher paid. the possible downside is that even average brits may become overpaid.
That could happen I guess it depends on how much clubs devote to developing young players. There will definately be a premium on British players.
I think what we might see is some teams that have well developed youth structures building teams around a few high quality imports and a higher number (than we see now) of younger players signed up to relatively low contracts. Other teams (with less developed youth structures) will be primarily journeymen British players.
