Darthchris wrote:Wider issue is the financial clout of the NRL and how this should really end the player drain. Especially in England where youngsters like Ashton and Eastmond would imo have gone to Aus rather than yawnion
I don’t think we can know the minds of these players and whether they would be prepared to move their lives to the other side of the world at such a young age
Also, Eastmond was a full international when he moved but Ashton wasn’t – I suspect that the NRL clubs wouldn’t have spent the same amount on him than the Union clubs were willing to pay whether they had the cash or not
Not sure if it will ever end but for a while to come, we will continue to lose players to Union in this country... and we will also continue to replace them with quality youngsters playing the better game