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?
I think the point Ryan is making is that we can make superstars, we just need the media to market the shark out of them. A great player can play well and be known in football circles, but those circles are likely already going to the match.
what we need is Ridenton to get caught peeing in his mouth on camera. Then a public apology, then him visiting sick children and playing a game of football with them and letting them win.
Then he needs to go play in the NRL for a season, but miss his first training session to his new code to go skiing (and telling his coach he is sick) but also not telling the Nix that he is leaving the club until he is catching his flight out of the country and then when he comes back say he wont play against his old club but then play against his old club. Wait sorry that's how you become an AB.
I get what Ryan is saying, that we need some kind of appeal to the masses, and the masses read more trash on stuff than they could list the top 5 players in the world. We need Beckham appeal to get interest in the club, but that's no simple feat either.
Well Boyd watched a movie when the team were playing once.