You can't buy a premiership!!!

[Iafeta]

I never thought the Knights were trying to buy a premiership,I had them finishing this season just outside the eight,
trying to strengthen their roster ...of course,
and trying to buy some distance between themselves and three consecutive
wooden spoons...well who could blame them for that.

That’s been Nathan Browns motto. Imposter of a coach. Yet a media darling.

 

[Pedge1971]

i agree. successful clubs like the Roosters develop a core through their lower grades, and make smart recruitment decisions to add quality in positions that it is lacking. teams like the Knights that are trying to buy a premiership just try to buy good players in every position rather than developing their own.

Gotta try harder than that Dale. But A+ for effort.

 

[Pedge1971]

When you look at teams that become premiers they have one thing in common, a blend of developed juniors and players recruited from other clubs. If you want an example, look at the famed St George Dragons during their 11 year premiership run. They had a good core of juniors but they had players they recruited from outside the club (e.g. Kevin Ryan who they recruited from Brisbane Brothers, John Raper who was recruited from the Newtown Jets).

Main reason this happens is that no matter how good your development/coaching paths, you rarely get sufficient quality juniors coming through which enable you to fill the entire team. Take the Parramatta Eels of the late 1990s-early 2000s. As they'd had a generation that spawned Grothe, Kenny, Ella (amongst others) locally, they thought they could replenish their side by solely recruiting from within. problem is the players who came up were not as good, or were not properly identified by the club and were recruited by other clubs. Hence Parramatta spent years as also rans down near the foot of the table during this period.

Parramatta only got back on the winners board in a serious way after the recruitment of Jarrod McCracken, Dean Pay, Jim Dymock and Jason Smith in 1996 as they filled gaps in the quality that was partly missing from their team.

Agree with this. I think teams like Parra in the 80s and the Knights in late 90s to early 00's were blessed with an above average crop of junior talent and made the mistake of thinkng this would just continue rather than being the massive anomoly it was.

When the next set came through and were bog average they did not have the right external recruitnent policies to cover the gap.

 

[Pedge1971]

but if they had good development pathways then the spoon winners would be replaced by talented youngsters coming into first grade

Well documented that when Bennett came he ignored the junior pathways and focused on immediate success. That has only just been fixed in the last year or 2.

 

[TheFrog]

Because you cannot buy a premiership!!

It all depends on who you buy. Players unwanted by other clubs usually aren't the ones you want.

 

[MilkShark]

BUYS best fullback and halfback in the comp, wins comp.

You can buy a premiership

 

[macavity]

Ponga, Pearce and Watson.

Ponga is great.

Pearce is dead set the worst 7 in the comp on form at present.

Watson is a bench hooker.

Knights supporters are absolutely blue balling for success, and have always tended to over-rate their players. Our current squad has potential to be fringe 8 if everything goes right, but everything has gone wrong. A great FB and prop can't do it alone.

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

Well you can, but it just gets taken from you @melbourne

 

[Zadar]

BUYS best fullback and halfback in the comp, wins comp.

You can buy a premiership

Of course you can buy a premiership Barba,Maloney,Townsend,Ennis,Lewis, wade graham,Fifita,heighington,prior and co.

 

[Spot On]

Ponga is great.

Pearce is dead set the worst 7 in the comp on form at present.

Watson is a bench hooker.

Knights supporters are absolutely blue balling for success, and have always tended to over-rate their players. Our current squad has potential to be fringe 8 if everything goes right, but everything has gone wrong. A great FB and prop can't do it alone.

6 more quality recruits needed?

 

[MilkShark]

Of course you can buy a premiership Barba,Maloney,Townsend,Ennis,Lewis, wade graham,Fifita,heighington,prior and co.

What’s your point exactly???

I just said you can by a premiership.

I ain’t the one making an entire thread about not being able to buy a premiership.

 

[myrrh ken]

Of course you can buy a premiership Barba,Maloney,Townsend,Ennis,Lewis, wade graham,Fifita,heighington,prior and co.

Didn't realise we won premierships dating back to 2011.

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

BUYS best fullback and halfback in the comp, wins comp.

You can buy a premiership

Great players, yes but the rest of the merkins have to show up too

 

[TheDalek079]

BUYS best fullback and halfback in the comp, wins comp.

You can buy a premiership

is this about the time the warriors bought RTS and Foran but were still unable to make the playoffs?

 

[myrrh ken]

is this about the time the warriors bought RTS and Foran but were still unable to make the playoffs?

Gee 2017 foran was a world beater wasnt he. Those 9 games he played in 2016 were all class.

 

[Valheru]

BUYS best fullback and halfback in the comp, wins comp.

You can buy a premiership

On form is cronk really the best halfback in the game?

 

[myrrh ken]

On form is cronk really the best halfback in the game?

Hes on a hattrick isnt he?

Ask albert.

 

[Foz]

On form is cronk really the best halfback in the game?

He’s the smartest by the length of the Randwick straight.

 

[MilkShark]

Cronk was bought for one single reason, to do what Pearce couldn’t, win a premiership. It was said one million times.

The premiership was bought, this thread has zero credibility.

 

[TheFrog]

Cronk was bought for one single reason, to do what Pearce couldn’t, win a premiership. It was said one million times.

The premiership was bought, this thread has zero credibility.

You could include Tedesco in that too.

Even in the 70's, premierships were being bought. Manly did it, and Easts did it. The salary cap was supposed to stop that happening though. For all the effect it has in evening out the competition, they might as well scrap it. All it does is stop the poor clubs going broke trying to compete with the rich clubs.