Seems at the time the only thing the players really wanted was some money for doing promotions, adverts and such. Many already had job set ups where they could train as much as work. It really was a semi-professional game already by the early 90s. There was nothing wrong with that and perhaps that was what should have been kept.
This was when when Wales Scotland England Ireland France used home grown talent not like today's gun for hire players can't get in there own country of birth and suddenly there great great great great grandfather was Scottish or Welsh