nowt wrong with having 3 or even 4 high class imports...its the gash ones we need to get rid of...we have our own gash players...

I agree JB, it's just i'm not sure how legal that is. All the equality rubbish makes it hard to put guidelines like that in.

don;t they already have some criteria with having tp have played so many NRL games in the last two years? The RFL can basically work with the Govt to come up with anything they like (or there are ways and means such as linking the club grant to number of English players, salary cap restrictions etc.) If there was a will I'm sure there is a way!

I think in sport it has something to do with appearances for club and country. I remember reading something about Man Utd waiting a work permit on a Mexican player due to this.

with our salary to rise to $6 - 7 million by 2012, SL wont be able to afford them



theres a very good chance that the flow of players will go the other way, especially if the dollar stays strong.

Think they will come a time in the next couple of years where the salary cap will have to be increased to fight off the NRL and Union, whose Cap is much higher than ours.



Not sure if some clubs would be ablt to afford the increase though as tehy are already struggling.

the problem is who can afford the cap to raise?

SL will just have to start developing more players



on what ive seen from burgess, ellis or flanagan, it shouldnt be a problem



the nrl is never going to be a big threat to SL but having say 10 - 20 players in the nrl will be very good for the advancement of RL.



after all morley returned, so will burgess, ellis etc.

Bang on Dally, SL is producing more and more home grown players by the season anyway. I'm not particularly worried if 10 or 20 of our stars go to the NRL. It's better than them going to yawnion.

watch international RL boom when england beat australia in a WC final.



australia vs england is much bigger than aus vs nz

Not many, you would hope that the RFL would get a better TV deal and the extra money each club gets could be used to increase the cap.

Good on Wigan for taking the lead with this. Quins have a real aspirataion to bring through Londoners which can be seen in the committment to the youth policy