Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[pawsandclaws1]

HBG are too busy investing in rival codes for that

If they don't or cannot do it, the NRL should be examining this for the long-term sustainability of the NRL.

 

[Tim Sheens]

Yep.
You cant blame parents of smaller white kids not wanting them getting smashed by bigger islanders at the age of 12 or so.

Im in support of the weight for age concept but you can only play up or down one age group. So if you are deemed too big for under 12's you play 13's. Even if you are still the biggest in the 13's you wont be made to play 2 age groups up. If you are a tiny 15 year old, you play 14's but cant play 13's.

For a different perspective and without dismissing all of the above, my now 16yo son's union team won the comp/s with a very much predominantly white team that included many anglo girls. Seven of them approved to play in the 13's a few years back as there were no gender restrictions up to 12's.

Dispensations were/are also occasionally given to allow inexperienced and/or small male players to play in lower age groups when deemed appropriate, which benefited our numbers for a time with one boy.

We would have long not been able to meet the minimum numbers to field a team at all basically every weekend without them, and eventually folded as reigning premiers when more boys dropped out, including my son after suffering multiple dislocations due to congenital knee/patella issues.

 

[supercoach]

Very few kids who start off in junior reps actually end up making a good living out of the game. So more and more kids are dropping out to peruse a more reliable living like a trade. Chasing a football career is a very hard gig with lots of pitfalls. I guess if the demand for players is increased through more expansion teams, kids may stay in the game a tad longer

 

[mtd#2]

But will he want to? Seems ok with holding a gun to WT head already with re-signing or not. If he is becoming troublesome, Im happy to let him go and replace with Nanai in second row and obtaining prop another way.

Is there anything to back up the claim he is holding a gun to the WT head?