Thommo & Timmo

[Slippery Morris]

Thompson and Timmins have given 10+ years service to the Dragons therefore shouldn't the Dragons get a 50k concession for these guys?

Same with Baz when his contract is up.

With the new 2 marquee player rules in place you would thing Coops and Gaz will be the 2 players therefore they should get some concessions as well.

If Saints win the comp or come very close to it I don't think anyone will leave the club next year. Why would they?

 

[Drew-Sta]

If Saints win the comp or come very close to it I don't think anyone will leave the club next year. Why would they?

Salary cap will force them out by 2007.

 

[Follow Me Up To Carlton]

Thompson and Timmins have given 10+ years service to the Dragons therefore shouldn't the Dragons get a 50k concession for these guys?

Same with Baz when his contract is up.

With the new 2 marquee player rules in place you would thing Coops and Gaz will be the 2 players therefore they should get some concessions as well.

If Saints win the comp or come very close to it I don't think anyone will leave the club next year. Why would they?

Surely the real issue here is junior dispensation.

Why does it not exist, and why has is disappeared from the agenda?

 

[The Colonel]

Only one player, I think, is allowed the $100,000 ten year discount.

 

[drake]

Surely the real issue here is junior dispensation.

Why does it not exist, and why has is disappeared from the agenda?

City Ford says "No!" more often these days...

 

[Willow]

Surely the real issue here is junior dispensation.

Why does it not exist, and why has is disappeared from the agenda?

I agree. But its obviously in the too hard basket.
In the minds of some clubs, discounts for developing juniors would create an uneven playing field.
Much better to have other club develop juniors and then wait until salary cap sees them join other clubs with little or no junior development.

It may be that we'll simply have to wait until these other clubs get their feeder arrangements properly recognised. A club like Melbourne for example is probably considered a 'growth area' - I know it sounds odd. But it may be the view of the NRL that the Storm need time to develop any local Melbourne juniors as well as their feeder arrangements within the QRL. The ultimate prize being a larger slice of the Melbourne audience.

I don't think any such excuse should exist for other current NRL clubs which have had generations to sort out their junior and feeder development. If they are waiting for other NRL clubs to develop players for them, then they should relocate or merge.

 

[SHD]

Only one player, I think, is allowed the $100,000 ten year discount.

It's simply $100,000 discount to spread over as many 10 year players as you like, so yeah it might we well be 100k limited to the one.

 

[Drew-Sta]

I don't think any such excuse should exist for other current NRL clubs which have had generations to sort out their junior and feeder development. If they are waiting for other NRL clubs to develop players for them, then they should relocate or merge.

Such as the Roosters to a degree Souths.

One Inner-Sydney team, not two.

• Saints took the South Coast,
• Manly the North Coast (although IMO they should relocate to Gosford),
• Wests went further west with Balmain in tow,
• Parramatta and Penrith have big chunks working well,
• Brisbane scour most of Qld, as do the Cowboys,
• NZ have a whole country,
• Canterbury have excellent development of their juniors,
• Newcastle have their own nursery,
• Raiders have the Southern part of NSW,
• Cronulla is iffy, but has the Shire, so that counts for something.

Get rid of Souths and/or the Roosters. A team that claims Ryan Cross, a union convert, as a junior, is clearly not producing enough home-grown material.

 

[Jamesy]

Salary cap will force them out by 2007.

By then, we'll have 2 Premierships

 

[Saint 60]

Easts have a decent millionaire holding them up
Souths have a very big Souths juniors holding them up
Both have other incomes like film stars and the like and good luck to them lol

its going to be very interesting in the next 5 - 10 years..maybe longer

just my op.

 

[Willow]

• Saints took the South Coast

• Well it was always there. Illawarra has been a junior nursery ('a big backyard' as it used to be called) since the 1920s.

  [*]Brisbane scour most of Qld, as do the Cowboys

  Sort of. The SE Qld Franchise agreement between the NRL and the Broncos is well over now. I should imagine things will change with Gold Coast coming in.

  [*]Cronulla is iffy, but has the Shire, so that counts for something.

  Perhaps, but they seem to consistently looking for marquee players.

 

[Slippery Morris]

100k....Why isn't Peachy staying at the Sharks then. He looks the only player who has played 10+ years at Cronulla?