Thaiday- he was a known thug when he was a kid and the club didn't want to deal with that shit. He was a gun but was in fights constantly.
Slater- he was a small kid that had to make a living by moving and riding horses in Brisbane for Gai waterhouse, he was also right under Brisbanes nose so throw some shit your idiot clubs way for not identifying his talents as well.
Barba- Like Thaiday, his/his families reputation precedes him, I heard stories that the club didn't want to put up with his off field shit either. Proved to be right 100% yeah?
Hodges-signed in 98-99 for Brisbane, do you need a history lesson on how f**king dysfunctional the cowboys were at the time? FMD, I wouldn't have let my kid play there at the time. Is kinda ironic though that his last year as captain of brisbane, loses to NQ in the GF?
Dave Taylor- FMD, really?
There's actually a heap of other players you could have used as examples such as Valentine Holmes, Aidan Guerra (his form not exactly awesome at the moment), DCE, Hoffman but hey, I'm actually highly surprised you didn't just bump up an obscure thread from yester year that has some half assed irrelevant topic. We could always do a Brisbane one, include Thurston, Smith, Cronk?
Dave Taylor in-f**king-deed.
This is not meant to be I hate Cowboys crap. Just more philosophical/historical record on why players were not signed and for what reasons. I'm happy to acknowledge Broncos missing out on Dylan Napa. Broncos didn't even look twice at him and then only tried to sign him after the Rooster showed strong interest.
Dave Taylor had the potential and the talent just not the desire. He has played for Queensland and had games where he dominated. You can't deny despite his career not panning out the potential the talent was always there.
Your point on Sam Thaiday maybe true, but for all you Rugby league history buffs I've looked it up and here Sam Thaiday's take on why he never ended up at the Cowboys.
"BRONCOS enforcer Sam Thaiday is set to haunt North Queensland for the biggest recruitment blunder in their history after the Cowboys refused to pay $200 to sign him.
Thaiday revealed on Thursday how the Cowboys’ sparse development budget helped deliver him to the Broncos.
Brisbane coach Wayne Bennett and his scout, the late Cyril Connell, signed Thaiday in 2002 after watching him brawl with Sonny Bill Williams and Tom Learoyd-Lahrs in an under-17s interstate game.
Thaiday admits his path to NRL stardom could have taken a vastly different route if the Cowboys had been prepared to make a small investment in the Townsville Brothers junior.
It has been widely reported that the Cowboys never showed interest in Thaiday and his mother Julie even blasted the club as “donkeys” for not signing her son, but the man who became a Maroons and Test back-rower said money was the real impediment.
“It all fell apart over $200,” Thaiday said.
“The Cowboys did show interest. I did a couple of coaching clinics and some off-season camps with their Young Guns squad.
“I bumped into (former Cowboys coach) Murray Hurst just recently and he was the guy who wanted to sign me.
“At the time, Murray told the club to offer me $200 to keep me in Townsville but they didn’t even have that much in their budget to give me.
“Who knows where I would have gone at the Cowboys. I may have developed into a different player in Townsville, but going out of my comfort zone made me grow a lot more as a person and a man.
“It wasn’t too much longer after the Cowboys missed me that Cyril was in Townsville signing me.”
http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...d/news-story/2cad1b8667424093713778c974c73cdb
