POACHING OF PLAYERS
ENGLISH RUGBY LEAGUE ' ITS VIEWS ARE CHANGING r Cooke, the veteran Engfish Rugby League cfficial, who died ofCthS i agGd 9(i was first seqretary of tlie_ League, following- the breakavFay from the Union in. about 1896. -n&S was a healthy-minded, robust thmker and a wonderful man tOP his game. It is refreshing to know that he always held that the bnglish League should have kept a ban on poaching of Australian playIt is ^ difficult to conqeive how anyone with genuine interest in the gan?f' .cand its interiiational success, could favour poaching, says a writer in the Sydney Referee. Those who put what they term the personal interest of the players in front of the international interests of the game, are on a wrong track. " ^ refreshing at last to hear that the English R.L. is 'oming round to. the view that poaching by English clups must be banned. It should have been done long ago. Poaching generally should be discountenanced. It should be rigidly curtailed in Australia by the imposition of a drastic residential rule applying to Ltates, cities and country.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 83, 31 December 1937, Page 12
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