Rugby league needs to get back to supporting country league before they loose the battle with soccer and AFL.
A quick read of The Night The Music Died is recommended for any die hard league fans. Western Division beating the first grade teams and should have beaten the Poms as well.
Our local team won the local comp last year for the first time ever. This year they look like they havnt the numbers to field a team. Our town has provided one player who made it all the way to the Kangaroos and had one member who reportedly would have made it all the way. He played in the famed western division team and signed to a Newcastle team. Sadly he was cut down with cancer.
So the NRL are ignoring country league and are losing quality players to other sports. A town of 800 people is as important to league as a city of 100000 for supplying players. It's a shame they have lost sight of this. If they were they were smart they would base a first grade team in the central west.