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NRFL Combine in United States Ready to Roll on April 5-6th
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<blockquote data-quote="goodNumber10" data-source="post: 635858" data-attributes="member: 71068"><p>Calm down mate, no need to be rude about it it's just a discussion point.</p><p></p><p>On point one, at this stage but if anyone gets signed they will potentially be spending money on fast track development of talent from outside the game. they aren't going to come over out of their own pocket are they?</p><p></p><p>On point two, i've not said we should not welcome people from other sports of course we should - but openly going and recruiting from those other sports is very different to what you are suggesting. Your examples are people who have still developed through the traditional rugby systems, all be it rapidly, what they aren't is parachuted players openly recruited from other sports dropped in for a quick fix. (I feel League players like Folau/Williams are somewhat different having originally come from an alternative rugby background).</p><p></p><p>In fairness if anything comes from it then it would be supplementary to most clubs current development paths, but if you were a youth player at a premiership club and they brought in, say, an american sprinter with no experience and gave him a contract and fast development plan in your position how would you feel? Are our development programs that bad that we need to do this?</p><p></p><p>I know there are some traditional rugby players in there, but as Rats has pointed out if these guys are so keen to develop american rugby why is their efforts and resources not going into recruiting and integrating these guys into the traditional American rugby set up, offering their financial support there instead of this quick fix program? </p><p></p><p>I dunno something in all of this just doesn't sit right...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="goodNumber10, post: 635858, member: 71068"] Calm down mate, no need to be rude about it it's just a discussion point. On point one, at this stage but if anyone gets signed they will potentially be spending money on fast track development of talent from outside the game. they aren't going to come over out of their own pocket are they? On point two, i've not said we should not welcome people from other sports of course we should - but openly going and recruiting from those other sports is very different to what you are suggesting. Your examples are people who have still developed through the traditional rugby systems, all be it rapidly, what they aren't is parachuted players openly recruited from other sports dropped in for a quick fix. (I feel League players like Folau/Williams are somewhat different having originally come from an alternative rugby background). In fairness if anything comes from it then it would be supplementary to most clubs current development paths, but if you were a youth player at a premiership club and they brought in, say, an american sprinter with no experience and gave him a contract and fast development plan in your position how would you feel? Are our development programs that bad that we need to do this? I know there are some traditional rugby players in there, but as Rats has pointed out if these guys are so keen to develop american rugby why is their efforts and resources not going into recruiting and integrating these guys into the traditional American rugby set up, offering their financial support there instead of this quick fix program? I dunno something in all of this just doesn't sit right... [/QUOTE]
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