Union's 'failure' to nurture indigenous stars

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It would certainly be turning back the clock, about one hundred years, to combine them all.

We are only talking modified rules here. Australia (well Qld & NSW anyway) are unique in the Rugby playing countries in that RL is the dominant code by a good stretch and that there are two other strong codes vying for the juniors. Hopefully, in the professional era, the CEO's would be pragmatic enough to see the benefits and convince the conservatives.

Probably their only hope would be through the schools, a bit like when Kanga Cricket came in to vogue by a decision from cricket and education "central".

The longest journey............

The schools may provide greatest cooperative benefit to the two codes. Combining the pool of development officers/equipment could widen the net exponentially. Eventually the Wallabies and the S14 franchises would likely be the biggest beneficiaries and the NRL would be probably be holding up nicely as well.

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we could do with another Mark Ella right now