As I said before all the names in the NRL and Super Rugby are home grown there is no reason why we can't produce exciting and brand name players here. We just need the media to market them as a superstar and they will become superstars.
Yeah but in general the NRL and Super Rugby players are some of the best in the world for their sport. Anyone with the ability to possibly be a superstar gets enticed away to other A league clubs or european in football.
Not the highest paid though. Superstars aren't about ability they are about marketing and appearing in the tabloids taking their kids for a walk, or engaging in sex with a prostitute in a public toilet.
I'm strugging to see your point. Of course they aren't the highest paid, they are much smaller sports than football on a world scale. But kiwis want to watch those sports, and whether they are big on a world scale or not, the players are still some of the best in the world for that sport.
Superstars are about ability first and formost, though being a knobhead can often help market them. So do we need Roly to start a fight is Mish Mosh or something?