Cowboys recrutiment

[Shorty]

Honestly Slater was tiny, talent evaluators are better now but looking at the players in the NRL at the time it would indicate all clubs did it.
Thaiday isn't really special, he plays well for the Broncs because he loves that club, I assume he wouldn't have been nearly as good elsewhere.

I know you're just creating convo but the audacity of a Broncos supporter making a thread about NQ missing talent...I mean how many in our starting side (And Melb's) are Broncos cast offs?

Thanks for them, though lol.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Probably felt Slater was too small for backrow.

Hahaha I missed this one

 

[Frankus]

You'd have to consider that when some of those were teenagers circa late 90s early 2000s the Broncos would have been a far more attractive destination than the Cowboys.

Yeppoon is more Central Qld and it was never NQ territory anyway, although Taylor was from the coalfields but went to school at Yeppoon. Mackay has only become more of a Cowboys area in more recent years when the Cutters joined the Q Cup and affiliated with them. And Slater didn't get signed as a kid. He was a late bloomer if anything due to his jockey work and perceived lack of size. He made his way to the Storm via Brisbane Norths. I remember watching him and not thinking he was anything special. Cronk was the same.

Good post. I believe Clint Amos was also at Norths playing in the centres at the time, Nathan Friend was there too and Inglis was playing as a skinny kid at age 15 or 16 off the bench. Inglis was by far one of the most impressive juniors I have ever seen along with Will Zillman.

Cronk was a RU player and played Aus Schoolboys and was in all likelihood going to continue down that path until he was convinced to play for Norths by one of his teachers who is an ace dickhead. I think he played one season of league with Souths Acacia Ridge when he was 13-14.

All of these kids along with JT (Souths Sunnybank) and Smith (St Pauls/Logan Brothers) played juniors in Brisbane and where were the Broncos to snap them up (some of them under contract though).

 

[Travitoh]

This thread has backfired nicely

 

[Griffoshark66]

All clubs miss players. I'm sure seeing Scott put Addo-Carr away the other night made most Sharks fans wonder what if... On the other hand it made me happy that they carved the donkeys up.

 

[Canard]

Grand Final appearances since 2005:

Cowboys 3
Broncos 2

/end thread

 

[typicalfan]

Grand Final appearances since 2005:

Cowboys 3
Broncos 2

/end thread

Since the beginning of 2001.

 

[Danoz Direct]

Cowboys recruitment has been a lot better than the Broncos of late.

 

[Iafeta]

This thread has backfired nicely

It was odds on sadly.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

When fensom was playing nsw cup last year do you think he'd imagine being 80 minutes away from a premiership this year?

 

[TheVelourFog]

also LOL at Yeppoon

closer to Brisbane

 

[Life's Good]

It was odds on sadly.

Careful mate or you will be asked to get a life for stating the near obvious

 

[DeeJ]

To be fair to the clubs that missed out on Slater in his juniors, he always played in the halves and they probably weren't impressed with his trademark passes over the sideline.

 

[ANTiLAG]

JT
Scott
Cooper
Hess
Granville
Coote
Morgan
Taumalolo

#clubrecruitmentincrisis

 

[simmo05]

also LOL at Yeppoon

closer to Brisbane

Yepoon is right next to yepork

 

[Canard]

NQ making the GF has been the best highlight of this season for obvious reasons.

The amount of shit posting about the Cowboys by Broncos fans on LU that has blown up in their faces is a very close second.

 

[Walt Flanigan]

Yeah it’s funny enough that NQ making the GF makes this thread look stupid, but then the OP bumps it for a double dose of full genius.

 

[beave]

I think a few of their fans would have been like this last Saturday night.

 

[butchmcdick]

I think a few of their fans would have been like this last Saturday night.

As long as they don't use teeth

 

[Spot On]

Well, what has become very clear now is that the Cowboys are far and away the best team in QLD.