[tb]

Re: A Level Playing Field? : Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:00 pm  

RecreRebel wrote:

We havent has top flight RL in Cumbria since SL began.

Really? Did I imagine Town's 'campaign' in SL1

Re: A Level Playing Field? : Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:02 pm  

saints35 bulls0 wrote:

without knowing the full reasoning behind each refusal - the RFL have no power over who gets a visa or not.

The RFL dont have the ability to award visas but they do have the power to back players in their application which nigh on guarantees a visa being granted. For example the Celtic Crusaders '8' and Luisi at Barrow.

Re: A Level Playing Field? : Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:02 pm  

tb wrote:

Really? Did I imagine Town's 'campaign' in SL1

No, but if you blinked you would have missed it.

Re: A Level Playing Field? : Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:05 pm  

tb wrote:

Really? Did I imagine Town's 'campaign' in SL1

I stand corrected. How long did it last though? They were soon condemed to lower league oblivion.

Re: A Level Playing Field? : Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:07 pm  

RecreRebel wrote:

I stand corrected. How long did it last though? They were soon condemed to lower league oblivion.

By their failure to win enough games, that being the criteria at the time. Nobody else's fault bar their own.

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:11 pm  

ratchet wrote:

With regards Stirlingshire Saints nonscense, the NL clubs are businesses just like the SL clubs so why should they be treated differently. Is it to keep them at there own level.Very few SL players come from the NL clubs but though the SL academies so surely its the SL clubs that should be limited by your arguement. NL clubs can't compete for the best youngsters so your idea will not breed more internationals just limit the overseas signings in the NL. eg. more average british players. This is not intended to have a go at the NL but it annoys me when SLs failures are blamed on others.

Firstly I am not blaming any failures on the National League. I also do not believe the clubs should be kept at their own level but frankly with the quality of imports being brought into the NL clubs, it isn't going to be raising any level either.

The fact very few British SL players come through the National Leagues is the exact reason for my point. How on earth is any British kid going to make any level if at a side not playing a high standard anyway, his progression is blocked by yet another average Antipoedean ? What sense does that make ?

The lower leagues should be used as a breeding ground for British talent and if a side reaches the standards of SL level with that talent, all the better.

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:17 pm  

Stirlingshire Saint wrote:

Firstly I am not blaming any failures on the National League. I also do not believe the clubs should be kept at their own level but frankly with the quality of imports being brought into the NL clubs, it isn't going to be raising any level either.

The fact very few British SL players come through the National Leagues is the exact reason for my point. How on earth is any British kid going to make any level if at a side not playing a high standard anyway, his progression is blocked by yet another average Antipoedean ? What sense does that make ?

The lower leagues should be used as a breeding ground for British talent and if a side reaches the standards of SL level with that talent, all the better.

Utter bullsh1t.

SL teams can have in some cases as many overseas players as they please where as lower league teams are restricted to 1 (Championship) and 2 (Chamionship1). Surely the amount of overseas players in SL is the main factor in 'blocking' British youngsters coming through.

There are no average antipodean players in the Championship, if they we're average why would clubs shell out to bring them over ?

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:26 pm  

RecreRebel wrote:

Utter bullsh1t.

SL teams can have in some cases as many overseas players as they please where as lower league teams are restricted to 1 (Championship) and 2 (Chamionship1). Surely the amount of overseas players in SL is the main factor in 'blocking' British youngsters coming through.

There are no average antipodean players in the Championship, if they we're average why would clubs shell out to bring them over ?

Is this supposed to be taken seriously ?

In a competition which is of the standard of an average amateur game, there are no average foreigners ? Please......they are all average and shouldn't be taking the position from a British lad.

For your information, if it was upto myself, the quota would be limited a lot more in SL as well.

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:30 pm  

Its not even worth getting involved fellas. You should know by now the rules are :

1. super league = closed shop unless you're invited
2. no club outside super league shall have the audacity to try and join the party, unless invited and flavour of the month
3. the point of existence of any club outside super league is to bring through and develop british players and give them to super league for free
4. If number 3 is not done we will have a league full of aussies and keep losing international matches - on the NL clubs heads' be it

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:33 pm  

freddies wig wrote:

Its not even worth getting involved fellas. You should know by now the rules are :

1. super league = closed shop unless you're invited
2. no club outside super league shall have the audacity to try and join the party, unless invited and flavour of the month
3. the point of existence of any club outside super league is to bring through and develop british players and give them to super league for free
4. If number 3 is not done we will have a league full of aussies and keep losing international matches - on the NL clubs heads' be it