Complex sentence: Luring professional sportsmen, the new code of rugby league arrived in Australia in 1907 and came to dominate the sporting scene in Queensland and New South Wales, however it was not immediately introduced into Victoria, where the VFL which paid players, was already increasingly popular.
Split into simpler sentences: Luring professional sportsmen, the new code of rugby league arrived in Australia in 1907 and came to dominate the sporting scene in Queensland and New South Wales. However, it was not immediately introduced into Victoria, where the VFL, which paid players, was already increasingly popular.