Wellsy13 wrote:
For now they can target gridiron players that don't make it, yes. But they will never be a force in the RL world if they continue to do this as the players will not have developed many of the skills needed to play RL and will most likely not have enough time to master them to as extent that they will become expert. They need to get people playing in schools to develop this earlier. That will obviously come with time, but the way people are talking it appears that they think they will be able to build a competitive team out of gridiron converts which in most likeliness will not be the case. They may be good athletes, but that doesn't mean they'll be good RL players.
The USA has enough prime athletes to destroy the existing RL nations, England especially within a couple of years of professionalism.
Lets not forget that the USA national side was beating Australia at half time in their recent encounter, so it's not like they would have to progress that much to beat England.
