In a nutshell.



Brian Carney is the only one of the sky commentary team who talks sense. He said that teams should have only 2 or 3 world class imports from either Australia or New Zealand and the rest should be eligible to play England or Great Britain.



For an overseas player to be successful (IMO) he has to be one of the best players in the team & one of the best players, in his position, in super league. At the moment this is not the case with too many imports.

Dallas Johnson's pretty good. Matt King was claimed to be good, he was an origin player and had just come fresh off a final win, he's not been as bad as has been made out, but he's not lived up to his reputation, either. Michael Monaghan is also good and he wasn't signed as an over-the-hill pension earner. But, other than that, you're probably right, despite some of SL's best players being Aussie's/overseas players, it's pretty clear that there are still too many mediocre players coming from overseas.

Agree. A maximum of 3 imports per team. One back, one half-back and one forward. At least then, British teams will be forced to produce at least one half-back.

No. Fewer.

Damo is obviously a Leeds fan who wants to increase the number of overseas players at his club.



Webb, Donald, Delaney, Leuluai, Buderus, Lauitiiti and Eastwood.

So much for grow your own at Leeds eh!

Leeds like Wigan produce more than enough home grown talent than the rest of super league put together. Every super league club will probably have an ex Leeds or Wigan academy player in it. Both are focus on producing home grown players more than any other super league team with St Helens only really catching up.



Can’t speak for Wigan but Leeds whilst Gary Hetherington is at the top will always have the perfect blend of the best talent in the local area along side class over sea’s players. Hence why we are at the top of the league. I do hope however that a local lad is good enough to take over the likes of Webb, Donald, Delaney, Leuluai, Buderus, Lauitiiti and Eastwood in the next few seasons rather than given the right because he’s local. That’s when we’ll start beating the Aussies.





Nothing shocking about the Australians who won a grand finals winners ring with Leeds this year. Again I must stress that home grown players must earn the right to over take these Australians rather than given the right.

How many are born in Leeds and not pinched from other town like Dewsburry,Batley,Drigglington and Cas and Wakie area.

Do you have any idea how long I've been resisting making that post?

It doesn’t matter its still an English club bringing English players through to the top level.

The biger the jug of milk the thicker the layer of cream on top!

yes your not playing the system properly if you sticked to your own service areas there would be more younsters playing every team giving them chance to delope instead of loosing from the game for good.