Quote ="lefty goldblatt"Ahhh, that old cliche that if you played NRL, you were quality.
I'll point you all (those of us of a certain vintage, anyway) to the Jackson brothers of the late 80's .... Peter was one, was the other one Mark?
Now, one of them scored the match winning try in the NRL GF, a few weeks before, and we signed the pair of them, after.
THEY #@%£ING STUNK. One of them couldn't even get a bench spot for the A-Team at the time, and, from memory, the other barely raised a few subs bench spots. Again, from memory, they couldn't even get above (a very raw) Basil Richards in the pecking order.
Truly a case in point, that all that glistens aint gold.
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So many in-accuracies it is difficult to know where to start, although before starting I should clarify that they were with out doubt two of the worse import signings made by any club at any time:
Their names were Mark and Steve Jackson (I wished we had signed Kangaroo Peter Jackson).
Mark was the player who was apparently "on the brink of a call-up for the Kangaroo" at prop whilst at the time Steve had not played any games for Canberra.
Three years later Steve came off the bench, as one of his 16 bench appearances for Canberra, to score the grand final try.
After his spell with us I don't think Mark ever played first grade again in Australia.
Steve moved to Wests in 1990 and hit some form that saw him represent Queensland 9 times before retiring due to a back injury.
What the Jackson brothers show that if you don't do your homework properly and subsequently recruit via video clips then you are asking for trouble. Do it right and you will sign quality players because despite your pittiful attempt at justifying otherwise the average NRL player is some distance ahead of the average Super League player.
As for holding back all these un-discovered Sam Tomkins then if that is what you believe then you are truly seriously deluded (which strangely would suggest its linked to having York away in 1979 as your first ever Wire match).
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