Increasing player stocks would not necessarily dilute the entertainment value of the league
Of all the reasons proffered against expanding the NRL from 16 teams to 18, the one that clanged against this sounding board was that there would not be enough players to go around. Not enough good ones, anyway, to maintain the “standard” of the NRL competition. The suggestion is that an influx of people would dilute the talent base and degrade the “product” by virtue of the new players being lesser than the incumbents.
We hear it during State of Origin when 34 of the game’s best players are taken out of the competition. There are new players, anonymous reserve graders, filling the breach. And with split rounds and focus on the big Origin show, people know they are being sold a lesser hound than the regular pure-breed.
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