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Message: [QUOTE="Number6, post: 2958844, member: 9008"] Top tier centre (Bird) injured for season, other top tier centre sore after origin. Surely that qualifies as reason to let Staggs start. Using Kahu out of position already (he is a winger not a centre). NRLs logic is you have to start a worse player to replace your two higher paid first graders but your better form player can be on the bench... This is what is wrong with NRL. It’s all about ensuring everyone is mediocre enough to keep the competition even. If a player is gone for the season with independent medical review why can’t their spot in the 30 be given to someone else with a minimum wage exception? Similarly if a player needs a rest from a rep game needs to be allowance for clubs sacrifice to rep football so we can build the game. Perhaps move them to injury list NFL style for season ending injuries and NHL style for rep duty where they can come back after 7 days or whatever period... you can’t carry 4 specialist centres in a 30 man squad let alone perhaps 5 to ensure have spares in form so why not acknowledge that and have it built into system. [/QUOTE]

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