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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2665197, member: 8215"] We're arguing two different things then. I'm not bagging the coaches' ability, I'm saying that the gameplan, the attack-orientated, high-risk, play-as-you-see-it style, will not translate to the NRL as much as people might think. Hence the comment about playmakers. Their skills might be perfect in the ISC where defensive lines are not as impenetrable, but not in the NRL. Defensive structures are far more rigid for that style to work, especially when you say something about losing 50 metres by running backwards in the hope that you can then score a 100 metre try. To do so would require high-risk plays and if it fails, you're gifting the opposition field position and a smaller, more skilled team will be no match for some regulation big men on your own line. As for me being negative about the ISC, I don't know how to say this with tact, but it's inferior to the NRL. It certainly has its place, and I respect that it has traditions in Queensland going way back before the NSWRL invaded, but the harsh truth is its best relevance to the NRL and the Broncos (which is the topic of this forum) is as a feeder system and a second-grade comp for fringe first-graders. And when you say "ISC produced", that is why I can't take you seriously on discussions regarding the comp. "Produced" suggests it has been the defining factor in developing and advancing player's skills and abilities, which is simply not true for the vast majority of our players. Tell me, how many of the players in our 17 played in the ISC without a Broncos contract? All I can think of is Reed and maybe Gillett IIRC. The rest of them were always contracted to the Broncos and were played in the competition when they were no longer eligible for the NYC or had progressed passed the standard of that comp and were being played against more hardened, older opposition as better prep for the NRL. Or to gain confidence or return from injury in an environment not as cut-throat. To suggest otherwise is just twisting facts. [/QUOTE]

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