Wigan Warriors • Rumours and signings v9
NSW wrote:
Lewis Murphy to the NRL.
Not sure how we can stop the player drain.
If a player wants to go to Aus and the NRL team wants them - they go. It’s that simple.
Too many people who should know better keep saying what a good thing it is, and that includes some high-profile ex-players.
They talk as if the fact it will improve the international team is the only thing that matters, seemingly unaware that without a healthy, fully professional home competition we won't even be in the international game, or not at any meaningful level.
Besides, I'm not even sure that it does improve these lads as international players.
Before Budgie went off on his ill-advised adventure, he was a shoe-in for the England team and had what looked like a guaranteed international future. Since he returned, he's been average at best. The same could be said of John Bateman. A stormtrooper for Wigan, England and Canberra, but it was questionable whether the JB who came back should even have been in that World Cup. And let's not get started on the Dan Sarginsons of this world.
I don't know whether we can do anything serious to prevent them going, but we're going to have a try a lot harder than we are at present.
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