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Message: [QUOTE="Huge, post: 3224593, member: 1992"] In my opinion only one or two percent of the kids who play rugby league at say, 13 go on to nrl. Of the rest probably 30% could play well enough to play some first grade given an ideal scenario. Here I'm only saying it's possible because this claim takes nothing else into consideration. I mean there's positions within the team that are rudimentary, that are not complex in any real way so catching the ball, running straight and hard and tackling what's in front of you describes at least a couple of roles. There's been players I'm sure who simply played the game because they enjoyed it and while they may have daydreamed about scoring the matchwinner in the gf or origin they have no real aspirations of such glory. It doesn't mean they couldn't have achieved first grade. Sometimes the only thing that stopped a progression is a single ill timed event, perhaps like the death of a parent when a kid was 15 and the profound effect such a thing could have. In such a scenario the lad might stop playing for months which stretches into years. Another Maranta lost, not a superstar but at least capable of first grade. I'll bet there's dozens of ISC/Canterbury Cup players who could be nrl players if all their external needs were met or satisfied. [/QUOTE]

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