Re. the idea of making a code switch and planning to come back to league as a marquee player, exempt from the cap, I can only see this working for a small amount of players.
I believe age is major factor so this counts out all the older blokes like Snake, Glenn, Jamie, Choc, Matai, Smith, Slater, Cronk, Parker, Thaiday, Gallen, Sutton, etc.
Thurston is probably the only older player who could pull this off and of course SBW would be rolled out the red carpet for again.
Current players I can see benefitting from returning to NRL after a code hop based on age and status are:
Hayne
DCE
Inglis
All Burgi
Thurston
SBW
Maybe Hodkinson?
James Graham
Shaun Johnson?
Ben Hunt?
Foran?
Folau - provided he go to an administration approved club (rorters, souths, dogs)
The NRL don't seem to give a toss about the game's loyal servants. The system is all wrong.
HK_Eagle said:
But the boats, Greggy, think of the boats...
Tony's stopping them.