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The Warriors recent success is great news for the Roosters, Bulldogs, Broncos and Souths future recruitment.
Nah, we get ‘em before they even know they exist
Maybe on the IBM scale of hearing of the f**kers.
Don't tell Gus Gould
This panthers period reminds me very much of Leeds Rhinos in the U.K in the early 2000’s. In the late 90’s Leeds invested heavily in their juniors and won multiple ‘academy’ titles (under 18’s) in a row. Players became used to winning titles as a team and in a Leeds jersey as kids and by 2002/2003 the first batch started to mature into the first team -Sinfield, McGuire, Burrow, Diskin, Calderwood, Walker, Bailey, Jones-Buchanan all came through together and all went on to play for Great Britain. Leeds won their first title in 3 decades in 2004 with a team that had a majority of kids who’d come through their academy system, sprinkled with some older British Pro’s (Barrie McDermott and Keith Senior) and some astute signings (Ali Lauititi, Dave Furner, Marcus Bai)… Leeds went on to win 8 titles and a few challenge cups between 2004 and 2017 as they kept a core of that home grown group together and kept replacing the other players with either new kids that had come through the system and the odd new signing (Gareth Ellis, Jamie Peacock, Danny Buderus). Leeds got a near on 15 year dynasty from that very special group of elite players coming through together.
Not actually true, penrith have said they don’t spend one $ on jnrs beyond their own elite pathways system.
Sort of, you have half of that right... its not about keeping them less than market value, that wont happen the longer we keep racking up premierships, every season there has been 2-3 notible NRL grade players moved on and the same amount of rookies too... from2019 saw Maloney, Peachey, Tamou and Mansour leave, then Capewell, Kikau and Api after that, Critta, Leniu and Salmon now, there was also Staines, Naden, and Laurie... theres heaps more and halves getting poached too, Katoa and SoS, and then now Falls, and Cogger leaving.
Fair call, my summary definitely was a gross simplification and didn't give credence to the processes the likes of Penrith has put in place to handle the losses they do see and as well proactive plan for the future.
Agreed, they might never see a market value, as long as penrith wants to keep them... besides the market value is grossly inflated, depending on which position you play, take a look at halfback for instance, clubs are willing to pay overs on guys like moses and hunt, way earlier than they can justify the players peak in that position, when realistically if you send well on an group of commited hard forward pack, you can go cheap on a lachlan ilias for example and still win plenty of games..just like the dolphins this season. its really how the clubs value players and who they are stuck with on past contract renewals like what flano will have to go thru compared to what bennet started with at the dolphins
Its funny but the salary cap isn't there for that reason, its to not blow your budget on players, and the club go under, this whole "player-evening out talent" was a myth, success is cyclical, it wont be long before another team comes up with a different way to win a premiership without being reliant on market buys or local juniors
It amazes me how any people don't understand this. The only part about it that is supposed to have anything to do with spreading talent is stopping stockpiling.
