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Rumoured and Confirmed Signings and Even More Crap XII

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I have been told that our u/14s have some of the most outstanding talent seen coming through at Parra for years.This is more good work from our current talent scout.
 
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Gronk said:
Thanks Jimmy. To add to that Paul Kent (he is Sticky's BFF) said last night on NRL360 that the Eels will get worse before they get better.

I reckon that he is saying that our lack of depth will be our achilles heel next year.
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With so many highly paid players in reserve grade I don't see how our depth will be an issue.
 
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Exactly. Even now our hopeless Wenty side is as good as our nrl side.

You couldn't buy that sort of depth of you tried.
 
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jimmy77au said:
As a Junior Club Official, I went to a PDJRL meeting earlier in the season, where the junior Recruitment guy from the eels (Reports to Nolan - cant for the life of me remember his name) addressed the clubs.

He basically told us all the place was an absolute shambles, in terms of identification & recruitment of Juniors from our clubs - He too came from the Broncos, and it took him a full season just to sort out the true mess that it was in.

He now has a team & system in place to identify jr talent from as low as Under 12/13s...I witnessed Talent ID scouts about 2-3 times throughout the season - and this was at a small club which featured only Div 3/4 Teams....so they're casting the net far & wide - and not just looking at big clubs like Cabra, Wenty, Hills etc.

Apparently these scouts take a report back to him - and they're entered into a DB - when names continually get flagged, he then goes & checks the player out a few times....& so on & so forth. So I am of the belief that they are being proactive in the Jr Talent Id now.

I have heard from various sources in the Jr League - In terms of production of Halves - until we introduce a system similar to Qlds - our halves development will never be as good as theirs - our halves are restricted from an early age to having to catch & pass (as the rules up to under 12's? is that there has to be 2 passes)

Qld system, I am lead to believe, allows for a team to identify the halfback (by way of an armband) which allows them to run freely - although I am not an expert on this - so maybe someone can shed more light?
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Thanks for that report. Well is anyone surprised at the state that it was in and only re-enforces what Forevermagpies has been saying.

Hopefully what they have now put in place will reap us good results.

But what a joke the previous boneheads had been, including Brian Smith who kept that joke Rod Reddy running the show for all those years, and there are some here that want BS back. They are kidding.

Stagger eel said:
Yep, the bloke that spoke to you was Anthony Field, thank f**k for him and Pete Nolan who had to clean up this mess that's been there since the reddy era
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I agree with you Stagger, but I am very impatient and very pissed off that this has happened to us and that it is going to take at least another 3 to 5 years to really right itself and that is only if we don't get any unforeseen interference from the boofheads above. So sorry if I get too angry and frustrated at times.


gustarny said:
I have been told that our u/14s have some of the most outstanding talent seen coming through at Parra for years.This is more good work from our current talent scout.
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I could say something sarcastic about this, but I won't. Good to hear and lets hope they kick on for Parra in 7 or 8 years time. Thanks mate.
 
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Maroubra Eel

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Guess what TheRam. The new guys always blame the old guys.

Spotting the talent is easier than retaining them. Time will tell.
 
Casper The Ghost

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Stagger eel said:
Just on the NYC squad, we have never played a full strength team all season, we have had on average 6 players missing from the squad all year,.. Last Sunday we rolled Melbourne with 12 players sitting in the sideline and went close to Brisbane the week before, we've basically used our second string squad all season.. Just sayin
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Are they all circumcised Stagger?

Just asking cause Poo Poo loves statistics and this info will probably inspire him to delve deeper into another potential cause of our squads failures.

Maybe it's not too many Polynesians or back up players on the books but too many or not enough of either circumcised or uncircumcised players.

Are Jarryd Hayne, Greg Inglis, Cameron Smith, Johnathon Thurston, Billy Slater, etc, circumcised or not???

Come on down Poo, we need your help mate.

Is there a reason why Benji went off the boil - to meet his partners long-term commitments and beliefs, maybe he got circumcised and went of the boil these past two seasons??

Was Billy Rogers circumcised or not?

Can't wait to see what Poo Poo uncovers.

What about Brian Smith, Michael Hagan, Daniel Anderson, Stephen Kearney, Ricky Stuart???

What about Spags, other 3P directors, Dennis Fitzgerald, Steve the Plumber, etc???

And then there is Parra Pete, Maroubra Eel, Jake the f**ked up Snake, Poo Poo, etc????
 
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