NRL expansion raises player depth concerns, but young talent is thriving, enhancing competition quality significantly.
The timing has been perfect.
With NRL expansion upon us, the common fear has been player depth, and rightfully so.
With the NRL enjoying a boom period, the most significant I've seen in my life following the sport, expansion risks diluting the talent and the quality of the competition.
However, initial fears have subsided due to the explosion of young talent which has come into the first-grade ranks in the last two years.
I can't remember a time when so many players in the late teens and early 20s were having such an impact.
The young Canberra Raiders are taking the competition by storm,...