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Thompson will be missed for sure, just look at his stats for the dragons and he knows how to find the line. The master coach could see that Widopp is and always will be a fullback, as shown with England’s RLWC campaign.
Mary has no clue about coaching, at best he is the fittest water boy dragons have ever had. This year will be his downfall for the better of the club. Once Mary is moved on the dragons can be a top four threat.
The Dragons have Thompson well covered
This is from an EU standpoint – As one post already mentioned it comes down to money and also the influence of Union in that country. RLEF and RLIF are week organisations with no money.
Its difficult to get grants or any funding in the EU. RLEF and RLIF wil not support bodies with any advice help or administration with grants. The IRB have a massive legal team who have in the past blocked RL funding applications citing Rugby already exists and its already funded in the EU, and League is some illegal impostor. This has happened in Hungary, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic and Greece from my personal knowledge. In many of the emerging European countries, it starts off great then really does not gather momentum due to lack of funding and union being more attractive prospect. The IRB have promoted well and funded a program based around the Olympics and taken many players from league in European competitions in the last 2 years.
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Hope to hear the call to Jack Bird very early in the game . ”Pearce off Jack”. Get on the field and rip into them.
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Sharks aside, where does this all sit with World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada). Surly the IRB is a signatory to Wada and has cocaine on the list of drugs banned by WADA. How can French Rugby sign him.Or does the IRB turn a blind eye to all things French Rugby.
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As one post has already mentioned, the demographics in that area would make it difficult. It is the only place in the UK where I was once with a group of current and former players and the hotel staff advised us not to go out a night ”It’s not safe”.
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This is from the European perspective – nuts and bolts of it in Europe. There is no money. Growth is amazingly strong and growing, standard is getting there, but long way to go. Even with the stronger nations below top 5, they still lack the funds. Being involved the European system for over 7 years now, as a coach and Match official for the RLEF, they have no money and any good progress gets left high and dry. Most nations who have structured competitions, playing year in year out with good team & player growth have no money and are not really supported financially by the federation, what they do hand out would hardly pay for admin costs or one local teams admin cost. The RLEF basically pay for some training programs, and chuck in a few balls. This is nice but useless as most of the countries have expats with good experience and credentials managing the show doing it for free. Grants from the EU are tough to come by. Rugby Union is recognised, & they lobby the local governments and get all the funds, so when you apply, they say we already fund Rugby what’s this RL or Rugby 13 which they use here and need to get rid off that name, you just made that up. And the Rugby Union are more than happy to lay the boot in and say ‘’yer’’ who are these impostors. Same on the sponsorship front, there are many executives on boards who back/fund Union, when approaching companies is the same scenario, RL /Rugby 13 impostors. It’s tough going.
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Only time will tell if Mary can learn and coach. Me thinks he is still an awesome former player and now a super fit water boy. Many of his decisions to keep out of form an below average players in the side every week as well as the Jake Marketo factor sold me on that. Mary after several years could not see Marketo was an average park footballer at best and a liability, taking the spot from a young potential forward. Mary even went as far as to ask Freddy to give him a run in City NSW side as a favour. Speaks volumes when you have no contact, not even in a lower standard RL comp and find yourself playing union in Romania.
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