Quote ="r a n c i d"It's a fact, would you like a link to the many dictionary websites on the internet? If NRL players weren't better athletes with a superior skill set we wouldn't get our booty kicked, year in, year out... Would we? '"
Did it not occur to you that only a small minority of players need to be better than a small minority of our players to result in us getting our booty kicked? If Cam Smith is the best hooker in the world and James Roby the 2nd then this would still result in Smith being better if we used that same principle it would likely result in us getting our booty kicked year in year out. What it wouldnt fit is a statement which says NRL players are better athletes with a superior skill set. It simply means that the best 17 Australia put out are better than the best 17 we can put out.
Quote Also I don't care if it's a long or along. I could tear your English in seven if I were petty enough. '"
You could tear my English in seven? Thats not an idiom Im familar with. Have you made it up?
Quote Merrin would WALK into a SL team. The reason he played SOO is because Stuart is a halfwit. We can point to any number of moronic inclusions he made, there are many. You seem to think that by pointing out one or 2 exceptions that it somehow disproves that NRL players are on the whole superior to SL players. You're engaging in absolute fallacy.'"
Merrin wouldnt walk into any SL team. He would not be a front line prop at any of the top 8. He is a fairly poor player. Yet he played SoO because there are only so many good players in the NRL. There are many SL players much better than many NRL players.
Quote It's not just my opinion, it's the opinion of every NRL club! Nobody wants either player at their club, they're distinctly average, with no upside. '"
So you think that because he doesnt play NRL nobody in the NRL would employ him. Yet they will, next season employ an inferior player in Buderus. Your logic, even in the circular premise you have set up doesnt work.
Quote An NRL regular? He's a bloody journeyman, brought in as a last resort. You seem to think that arguably the worst hooker in the NRL is some sort of marker! Let me tell you, being better than Heremud does not make you a quality NRL player. Roby and anyone else you can care to name would absolutely struggle to find a home in the NRL.
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But being better than Heremaia clearly makes you good enough for the NRL and Heremaia wont be in the top 10 hookers in SL next year. Ergo there are at least 10 hookers better than an NRL hooker and as such at least 10 SL hookers who are good enough for the NRL as Heremaia was.
Quote If English SL hookers were rated they would be in the NRL, right now. '"
So how come Buderus who is inferior to Roby will be in the NRL next year if only the best players play in the NRL? How come Heremaia was in the NRL this year when there are so many English hookers next to him. Christ Kevin Sinfield is a better hooker than Heremaia and thats his third choice position.
Quote And that tells us all we need to know about the two competitions, doesn't it. SL is sub par and teams stock their ranks with foreigners to send out the best they possibly can. In the NRL they nurture and blood rookies with upside.'"
Run that past me again? You're idea is that SL is sub-par because they send out the best team they can where as in the NRL they choose inferior players over superior players and this somehow translates in to the NRL putting out better teams?
Quote Roby does not warrant the money you think he's worth, which is, AGAIN, the reason nobody has signed him. He'll forever by relegated to the 2nd division that is the SL.
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How much do I think he is worth?
Quote A team is not made by 1 player. The Warriors made the finals without genuine centres. The Warriors made the finals with a poop hooker. Why? Because we had the talent throughout the team to more than make up for it.'"
But you wouldnt need to do so if there was a steady supply of players better than their SL counterparts. If Roby wouldnt get a game in the NRL then the NRL wouldnt be employing dross like Heremaia. If Peacock wouldnt get a gig in the NRL we wouldnt see absolute pants like Josh Cordoba getting contracts.
Quote Who in their right mind would splash out on someone as distinctly average as Roby at the extent of their team proper. He's hardly a bloody game breaker is he?
'" You were so close. You're trolling has shone through. You could have been great. You got greedy.
Quote No.'"
You're letting yourself down.
Quote Nobody needs to take Buderus. There is no demand for Buderus. Bennett wants Buderus and Wayne is the worlds best coach who can take nobodies like Merrin and make them world beaters. '"
There is demand for Buderus, hence him leaving a lucrative contract in this country to return to the NRL.
Quote What seems odd to me is that the Buderus has been taken by a team in the worlds best competition, yet nobody wants Roby, or anyone else you care to mention.
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Maybe Roby doesnt want to go. Buderus is an inferior player to Roby. I say that as a Leeds fan, given the choice, every day of every week I would take Roby over Buderus.
Quote You can point to as many 30 year old Australians as you want, the fact is they're getting picked over Englands best talents. Tell me, please, how many 33 year old English players are in the NRL?
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There are no 33 year old English players in the NRL. There is a product of the British youth system who couldnt get a game in SL yet has played more games in the NRL though.
Quote Who cares? The SL is a semi-pro competition and most blokes come over here to double-up their retirement. I imagine it's disheartening to go from a superstar of the game to playing in front of old men in flat caps. '"
SL is a fully pro competition. Im sure you mean that to be disparaging but it just makes you sound ill-informed.
Quote You seem to think this is some sort of argument in your favour? All it shows is that NRL teams would rather resign discarded has beens than take the supposed cream of the crop English players.'"
Yes, the NRL will take inferior players instead of superior players.
Quote Not quite as good? Synonymous with inferior. It doesn't matter the margin, we're inferior, not quite as good, whatever you want to call it.'"
Have I at any stage disputed that?
Quote We have maybe 6 world class players.'"
If you wish.
