NRL ridiculed over plans to poach union players | Wide World of Sports
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NZ Rugby Union backs would be a good place to start looking if wanting converts
Nrl has been poaching nz union juniors for years
Lol you can just tell Brent Read is way more comfortable when he’s on Fox League arguing with Buzz, Kenty, Ikin, and Braith 😂 😂 💀
If Rugby Australia can sort out the pathways programs better. So people who play rugby at school and then cant make a super rugby side straight away. That would be a total cancer for the NRL.
thu99ery sports, nothing comes out good on those all players. Their brain constantly being steered to be aggressive, swearing, spitting
Yeah I think they need to start forging partnerships with MLR teams in the US or Pro D2 in France to blood the spillover talent that’s not quite ready for Super Rugby but need more of a challenge and enticement than Shute Shield or Hospital Cup. Personally I’d like to see the NRC reestablished to keep talent here but I think there’s a bit more legwork needed to work out how it can fund itself. More arvo games in the sun at Coogee Oval would be a good start.
@@thewielloyd988 Yeah not wrong, Matt Rogers, Berrick Barnes, Karmichael Hunt, Kaylin Ponga and Joseph Suali just to name a few. All school boy rugby players poached by the NRL, and then everyone cries when they go back to rugby.
@@timhayes3336 all the best league kids get picked up by these schools but always go back to league in Australia
@@thewielloyd988True, I thought the NRC helped alot with grassroots union but then again needed more bums on seats but this time they should have it at smaller venues if it's ever brought back just to bridge the Shute Shield and Hospital Cup.
RA could've invested whatever funds spent on Suali'i into that IMO.
No surprises... League has forever relied on buying / poaching players from rugby union since it began as a game - why because it was easy to do because until the early 1990's Rugby Union didnt pay its players - they played because they loved the game... it was easy to choose to get a salary and play a slow boring game ... many league 'immortals' were Rugby Union players 1st !!!
Name the last union player poached by league?
@@joshea7861 Joseph Sua'ali'i, Semi Radradra, Marika Koroibete, Angus Crichton, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, Nelson Asofa-Solomona, Will Penisini.. to name a few recent were highschool Rugby Union stars. Koroibete and Radradra were Rugby Union players through and through from Fiji, Radradra played for the Fiji Sevens team and U20s team before moving to Sydney to play NRL for the Eels.
You need to realise that no top Rugby Union player in Australia or New Zealand will move to Rugby League as they'd be earning more in Union and there'd be no real motivation to play in another sport for less money.
@@ejsmith9194 you’re spot on regarding Radradra & Koroibete. Now there’s also a few Fijian lads playing NRL, in fact let me put it this way. If any Fijian NRL players that came over directly from Fiji, 99.9% of them have RU in their DNA.
@@ejsmith9194 Cam Murray
Rugby Union is a DEAD GAME in Australia... Today Rugby League is a better game than what it is now...
Outside of Australia league is basically an amateur irrelevant game!
I love when Rugby League "Experts" sit around and pretend to not understand why a player would go to Souths for less. 🤣 Souths have one of the biggest supporter bases, 30k+ members, most premierships, best culture, strong indigenous culture, best location, you're in the only club that's recognised internationally by non-league people, you'll win most of your games, you'll get to play with some of the most talented players in the game, you're in one of the few family friendly clubs and you're pretty much promised a job for life at the club. It's a no brainer.
Except if you want to win a premiership in the next 2-3 yrs it's not going happen at souths😂😂
@@wolfgangvonuce9803 except they’ve got all their marquee players locked in until at least 2025 with one of the best juniors bases in the comp. Plus they’ve made the prelims 5 years in a row. Whether or not they’ve won a comp is another thing, but you’re stupid if you think they can’t win one in the next 3 years.
Sualli and Hass grew up playing rugby union anyways. Got brought over to League cause league hand out professional contracts faster and to younger players. Union don't
Meanwhile AFL is encroaching on NRL territory. AFL is the biggest threat to NRL, not rugby union.
Don't worry about cap relief for union players, come out and clarify the rules for the God dam sport!
My god I can’t believe the hysteria since Joseph Suaalii ( spelling?) signed his contract. We are unique in Australia for Union, League AFL, Football to all exist. Everyone just stay in your lane and worry about your own code
Lol and that mentality is how you lose out to the others
Two woke codes fighting for relevance.
Union in Australia is a joke. We have nothing to fear. They have zero player development and pathways.
As long as the biggest game in Rugby League is played by two states of the same country it’ll never compete with rugby. As gate keepers of the greatest game of all Australia needs to decide whether it wants to go global for real or just be another sport to compete with AFL
Happy to stay local. International competition is overrated and unrealistic given where we are now. Look at US sport, they dont need an international game.
@@QwidgyboMan big difference. US has the entire country and the world now enjoying their sports leagues. I’m happy for league to stay niche. But decide on it, come out and say it, and don’t bag union when it’s success on a global stage is much more impressive than leagues attempt. It’s embarrassing to hear pundits like Kent talk about it. Union people around the world are laughing.
Spot on!
@@QwidgyboManyou’re only saying happy to stay local because you’re defensive and stubborn, yeah you might be ok to stay local but if you were offered the international success and stature of union but in league overnight, you’re taking it. No way you’re saying happy to stay local then 😂
Union players already come to league as it is, why make an unnecessary rule?
NRL has churned out an endless supply of capable players replacing those gone to union, but seriously Vlandys is a joke and a muppet for having such a tiny ego trying to return the "poaching" favor to union when scouts are already there doing it for him at grassroots level.
Union repeating the same exact mistake again. Had the Rugby World Cup 2003 and Lions Tour 2001 and wasted all their money on Mat Rogers, Wendell Sailor and Lote Tuqiri lol. And what happened? Union went to shithouse. Same thing will happen again
Payne Haas wouldn't suit Union
He would be good at NO.8 or Blindside flanker
What goes around comes around
NRL players make good union players, but the reverse can't be said
They are when they are young, Most pro Union players dont go to League there's not much of a reason for them to.
Completely depends on where they play. A league back or forward has a good opportunity in union, mainly as a backline player. What I mean by that, is that league forwards don’t have the skill set or size to compete in union without the appropriate time to develop those aspects. Forwards in league are kind of redundant, there isn’t a skill set that they have, that a back wouldn’t be able to competitively do, and that’s not to say that a league back could outperform there forward counterparts in their roll, because they most likely couldn’t, however, they still have the ability to be competitive when performing the rolls of a foreword. In union, however, a back could not perform or play with the skill set of there forward counterparts, they don’t have the size or necessary ability to do so. Regardless, with the union World Cup approaching, and more opportunities then league could ever offer on the table, it’s understandable why the nrl are concerned about players jumping ship.
Ardie Savea would be a superstar backrower in league
@@jackohere1878 yeah, I'm a kiwi I don't really count all blacks in that conversation most if not all ab,s could transition to league in my humble opinion
@@garybaltiejus7248 maybe the backs, not the forwards
Bush footy almost dead out here hanging on by a string
What group?
Group 10 and 11 had to merge to make a competition
Cowra don’t have a first grade side as does Blayney
And omg
Have u seen group footy these days?
It’s soooooo bad
That’s y it’s dead
Nobody wants to go watch
Mid West Queensland man
JORDAN RAPANA
It's embarrassing how worried everyone is getting.Its zero threat to league ,we have so much talent that they could sighn 3 or 4 more players and none would care ,it's been happening both ways for years PVL is showing he's lack of knowledge of the history of rugby players coming to League and visa versa,it's has zero affect and will happen for years to come ,we have just had a lull because rugby was trying to do there own thing ,and league was getting all the young talent from union ,they'll maybe at best sighn 1 or 2 more max ,who cares ,
Rugby Union is chasing players for a reason. Their code is obviously deficient in valuable manpower and poaching is only a stop gap measure that’ll have to be addressed at some time. The same may occur in our code at sometime. It’s a natural process.
It's already happening in league. All the top young athletes play rugby, league talent is there in the high schoolers, but not as common as rugby.
2023 GF BRONCOS VS RAIDERS
Stay away from hallucinogens.
Rugby league is a much more entertaining sport than rugby union. Union has far too many stoppages and slow plays. It will be interesting to see the position of the NRL vs Super rugby in 10 years time
You're 100% accurate about what to FOCUS on. The Rugby that has the best to offer for:
* Enjoyment in playing at all levels
* The development of skill of the players and ability to express themselves at top level and enjoy the game as well as treat it as a job.
* Accessibility and Availability and Variability at GRASS-ROOTS eg League, 9's, Touch Footie VARIANTS
These guys yap away too much looking at the top level and player star value, that's the peak of the mountain as opposed to the base you build the whole sport upwards from.
Imho, Union is so dull these days: Stoppages, Grinding Forwards and Backs to 2m Gain Line, Excess Penalties and Scores based on 3pt Kicking Goals, Referee variability and rules obscurity that is not natural for players to follow.
Again, my experience is, if you grow up as a kid, and you prefer a rugby ball to throw around vs a football to kick around, then League offers more fun and action eg passing, channels of core basic skills more frequently for kids than Union does. It's a better game at that young age to play if you prefer throw-around vs kick-around (which is the predominant sport in many nations). You want to target the kids that enjoy the throw-around PLUS the contact and physicality for League.
I'd guess you're right: Super League looks hollow now especially without the Saffas. Big exodus of Kiwis to France and abroad after the WC too.
League is one dimensional and formulaic
Target there big guns and up and comers
Thats what Rugby League has done for more than a decade.. Sua'ali'i is one of those up and commers who got poached by the NRL.
Chammis the weasel with his hair slicked like a dodgy car salesman😂
Lady and gentlemens,
in regards to the...
resources being made available to clubs to attract/sign athletes from...
other sports,
is brilliant.
I mean,
womens track and field is massive in America and Europe.
Not to mention volleyball.
Post university,
the pathways for women in track and field
(globally)
that do not make the Olympics is...
practically nonexistent.
Sprinters,
100m
200m
400m
800m
are just the tip of the javelin.
we
(rugby league)
have the NRLW.
Remember team,
our daughters love and play this game,
*and now have the opportunity to get paid,
and buy Dad a Tesla.
The NRL will be overtaken by Polynesia's who will beat the Aussies in the world cup
Like they did last year?
@@JJdraho hes talking about the future innit
@@JJdraho give it time
@@newzebulon5313 best players of all time all come from Australia. Don’t be silly
@@johnmadden6482 I'm from nz I have seen it here both with rugby and league, the poly boys mature quicker and are bigger and stronger than white boys and the mums don't want to see their kids being bashed, so they leave. I'm not racist I'm just pointing out a fact
The administration is hopeless and it's starting to really show. Why are we scared of rugby.
thu99ery sports, nothing comes out good on those all players. Their brain constantly being steered to be aggressive, swearing, spitting
Bored mate?
💯 nrl look weak 😂
Stay away from hallucinogens.