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I'm not even sure the truth matters at this point, people are going to believe whatever feels right to them. More than likely there's nuggets of truth coming from everywhere, with everyone putting their own twist on the tale to suit their position. News Ltd. crave the drama and will draw every ounce of story they can from it. We want stability and the story put to bed as quickly as possible.
I reckon Gardner will get found out. He’s not up to it.
Unlike us the Broncos have absolutely nailed their junior development and scouting and are reaping the reward with guys like Fifita, Haas, Staggs, Flegler, etc making a real impact. Our junior system has been broken for about 15 years now
Absolutely one of our worst problems, and one that many other problems can be traced back to. Until we're producing first graders we're going to struggle, full stop.
I feel like the issue to further exacerbated by our mantra of building around local juniors. Look at the storm who dont have strong juniors and instead concentrate resources on scouting and recruiting really good youngsters like Papenhuizen, Brandon Smith, Curtis Scott, etc from other clubs, we continue to waste resources and bank on a flawed system
They obviously didn't pay attention to Hagan's last director of football gig, he set the club back more than Bennett did
the Roosters MO. Cherry pick other clubs 16 year olds that are virtual certainties to be quality NRL players.
That's abit of a misconception, the only 'junior' they poached was Cordner. Radley, Nat Butcher, Lachlan Lam and Billy Smith who debuted last weekend are local juniors, guys like Latrell, Manu, Sitili Tupounuia, Angus Crichton, Aubusson, Faamasuli all came through SG Ball and hadn't been part of an NRL set up before the roosters and Sam Verrills and Daniel Tupou were let go by Manly and Parramatta respectively. All in all they've absolutely left us for dead in terms of junior development which is embarrassing, even more so the fact they have a tiny junior catchment area.
