Originally Posted by
Paul Newlove
This was my initial thoughts.. Now I'm not sure it'd work going to Union, I mean given a choice of watching Saints play Union or not all I'd probably pick the latter, I don't think RL fans would go for it. If this goes on for months I can see all player contracts being terminated making them free agents, the best players could go to NRL or Union with the rest signing up for semi professional RL clubs. SL clubs and a few Championship clubs would be viable but many lower league clubs would end up amateur.
It could be a chance to rebuild the sport from negative circumstances of course but necessary. Who knows what will happen but I can see far less Antipodeans being in SL after this. From a Sky point of view its all about the product on the field, go back and watch a game from 91-95 and judge for yourself whether that was more entertaining than now.