Main problem is that the game competes with soccer at junior level. Swap the junior game to summer and you suddenly have a significantly bigger pool of players available.

It won't, at least not in Sydney.

the NRL is still recovering from the effects of the Super LEague war when many expansion clubs were killed off.

weve only just got back an important club like the Gold Coast, Perth still dont have a club, we have too few clubs in queensland, and our players arent being paid enough to keep them here.

our next TV deal will partly fix it. were expected to increase by 2 clubs, but sadly it wont be nz.

it will be central coast bears and either a team in perth, or another queensland team. these will add the most in terms of TV rights and catering to areas with strong interest in RL and no teams.

clubs wont do it till they see french players excelling. LEs Cats themselves dont have enough good french players so the other SL clubs wont take a risk.

its going to take time.

in the case of NZ, it was around 5 - 7 years after the entry of the Warriors that the rest of the competition started taking more notice of Kiwi players. The NZ Warriors also had more local players than LEs Cats do now.

its going to take time for good french players to be produced

queensland either. the new gold coast soccer club have capped their crowds at a maximum of 5000 in a 27,000 seat stadium to save costs. the Gold Coast RL side averages 20,000 in comparison.

with queensland and nsw under lock and key, our future is more than safe.

RL fans just wont go for soccer as it has less physicality, but AFL fans might well do.

Nah!

No matter what you think of Aussies they are not that thick to even consider moronball!