Gibberer, splitter, freak blah blah blah. All the time you spend in the Cronulla forum apparently calling people names seems to have become part of your persona here. Might want to work on how to actually contribute.
"We should keep every single junior player that has come through our system....every single one of them, right?"
^ This is such a pathetic attitude. Jack Bird has been the standout player in his age group at every level. Yes, you keep those players. He is a forward who can play either edge or middle, and has the ballplaying ability of a five-eighth. You keep those players. We also happen to have a serious shortage in the squad of those types of players. You keep them.
If he is allowed to leave it seems the club has fundamentally changed how it operates. Rather than stocking the top team with the best local players and supplementing them with the occasional outside signing, they are now stocking the team with outside signings and supplementing them with average local players who will stick around on the cheap. The likes of Rein, Quinlan, Green etc. If this is the case why bother wasting millions upon millions of dollars supporting the development in Illawarra and St George?