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Message: [QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2121621, member: 1764"] It depends on the individual. Leigh Matthews was saying about AFL players that a lot of the Lions players don't even like the game, they do it because it's a job and good money. League would have plenty of people like that too. Look at Eric Grothe for example! For them, playing for your state, or winning a premiership or playing for your country are "nice" but not important. So if you haven't achieved any of them and get offered a whopping great contract overseas, you'd take it. Others, like Lockyer, are very much goal oriented people. They thrive on and create new challenges for themselves within the code they're in. Lockyer has a driving ambition to captain a winning World Cup team. He has a desire to captain the Broncos to a premiership. To play 300 first grade games for the Broncos. Captain a winning Origin series, and the 4th in a row would be a huge carrot for him. He always has had those goals and so would never and did never consider leaving. Not all players have those dreams. Some, like the Lions Matthews was talking about, have financial dreams, travelling dreams, and to them sport is a means to an end. League players are blessed where those AFL guys aren't that they have so many choices to achieve those financial goals and travel goals while young and in their prime. Who's to say Izzy Folau won't think by the time he's 21 "I've won a World Cup, Premiership and Origin...what's left to do?" There is NOTHING the NRL can do to change that. As I said, all they can do is make the money better as is possible within the game to make those dreams ALSO financially viable. As you say, it's a life decision. [/QUOTE]

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