Quote matt king's cat="matt king's cat"Don't get the Ben Harrison comment Sally.
I must be the only one that thinks Burgess off to Oz is a bad for British RL. The game can't produce really good young players like him easily.
Can't blame the lad for wanting to go though. great move for him.'"
I was referring to this bizarre attitude on here that being positive about James Graham has to be qualified by "but he hasn't done it in Aus...." Nobody would say that if he was one of our top upcoming forwards coming through eg Harrison.
I agree with you that I think its a bad thing for Super League to lose a quality British player, surely thats what we want. If he was going off to prove himself in RU would we be saying what a great move it was blah blah.
Other countries block their players from playing internationally if they leave their domestic league because they are worried about a talent drain!
If Harrison, or any of our other good upcoming players signed for an NRL club I wouldn't be turning cartwheels about how great it was for the game. Yes the NRL is good but its not the be all and end all, Jamie Peacock, Scully, Farrell etc were all great players whether or not they played in the NRL.