Club or state & country

[OMR]

If you’re lucky enough to have had a reasonably long footy career, what would give you more satisfaction:
a) winning a premiership ( or 2) but never representing your state or country
b) not win a premiership but win few SOO series and Tests and possibly a World
Cup ( or2)?
personally I’d take option a all the time .

[The Lip]

Both would leave holes but I think I have to agree if one or the other probably a premiership

[Rooster_6]

c) playing for the chooks.

But yeh A, in other sports I can see the appeal of winning say a world cup over a premiership but rep footy in league is at a pretty poor standard. Even Origin has started to drop off the last few years.

[Larry Long Balls]

I think having a successful club career, maybe playing 300+ games and winning premierships is the pinnacle of the game. What does playing for Australia even mean anymore? Either NRL or SOO represent the height of our sport.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

If you ask any player, it would always be premierships.

[NorthChook]

Clubs like Tigers would get more hyped about their players playing rep footy - Roosters play for premierships

[FREEMAN89]

Ask Nathan Hindmarsh

[Snapn1]

How much time do you spend at all three option?? Obviously your chosen club has the most time spent every year with pre season training/ 25 rounds regular season and then another three!!!!

Then another Question would be , who pays the most money??? Obviously your club

THE ANSWER IS OPTION ( A )

[crikey chris]

Option A : Premierships!

Kangaroos have lost the "luster of yesteryear".

Origin has turned into a glorified club game.

Go Easts.

[Roosterfarian]

ask nathan hindmarsh

lol!

[Kelvin Johnson]

a) winning a premiership

[Mad_Rabid_Rooster]

If I was playing rugby, I would go with b) (winning the Shute Shield with the Easts Beasts would be nice, but not the be all and end all), but with league, a) with no hesitation. I agree with the other points, so it is unanimous so far!

[Thirteen]

Ask Nathan Hindmarsh

Excellent response.

[Kingbilly]

I was watching one of those silly videos about send offs in RL.
What I really noticed is when a player was hit in a rep game the players were like oh well, I do realise that would not be QLD but they were not on the vid)
But when a player was hit high during a club game the team mates were straight in

Maybe its not totally indicative of what happens but it was something I def noticed and I think it shows that club is very important esp as you spend so much time with your team mates

[Vasco]

Ask Nathan Hindmarsh

Or Andrew Ettingshausen.