Jermaine Ale

[Bobby DIGital]

The Dragons developed Kite.

The rest of your ex-raiders are rejects....apart from Kennedy but you obviously did nothing to develop him.

You're Manly. You don't develop players, you poach them....or scavenge through the off-cuts of other clubs. Know your role.

 

[MSIH]

The Dragons developed Kite.

I forgot, when did Kite play for Australia while at the Dragons?

Developing players doesn't end when someone reaches first grade.

 

[Timbo]

Back to the original topic...

Ale is a massive waste of talent. It really s*its me to see guys who are oozing talent just throw it all away through total lack of effort.

He could've been anything. Now it's only even money on him ever being NRL contracted again.

 

[Raider_69]

agreed timbo. selfish prat that he is! id kill for his talents :x
owen cragie v1.2

 

[innsaneink]

LOL...craigie, the player that popped into my mind when first reading this thread.

 

[MSIH]

Jason Bulgarelli's another who springs to mind.

 

[Raider_69]

:lol: Bulgarelli was the polar opposite you clown
Ale has talent and alot it, he just doesnt seem to put in
Boogs had no talent what so ever, not a single shread, but one thing you could never accuse him of was not trying, he tried his guts out, he was just flat out dog ordinary.

 

[Ari Gold]

so when you say he has great potential... is that rep player potential or Regular FG potential?

 

[MSIH]

He wasn't dog ordinary for the Warriors in '03'. Quite the contrary. Very surprised when he didn't snag MOTM honours.

 

[Raider_69]

so when you say he has great potential... is that rep player potential or Regular FG potential?

IMO, big rep potential.
such a waste

 

[Bicey_18]

Just like Brad Tighe in some regards.... He has so much potential but his poor attitude lets him down. He could be a superstar but fails to put in the hard yards

 

[marshall stalin]

The bloke was known at the roosters for not putting in.

Natural talent can only get you so far without hard work I guess this shows.

I don't know about that as he played in the Great Sydney Roosters Jersey flegg team that won the comp without losing a game in 2004.

 

[skeepe]

Royston Lightning was another example of wasted talent. That kid could have been something special. Problem is, he was a little like Forrest Gump in that after he scored, he didn't stop running until he found the nearest McDonalds.

 

[aqua_duck]

I rmember Ale coming through the knights junior ranks and he was something special back then, he had just as much ability probably more even than say a bloke like Anthony Quinn but after the roosters poached him his career kind of stalled (He was lucky to be part of such a stacked roosters flegg team)

 

[legend]

Is it an indegenous thing as all the players mentioned are either aboriginal or part aboriginal and I'm sure Ale is part Aboriginal?

 

[innsaneink]

Cant be....it dont seem to bother Inglis, Thaiday, Widders or even Daley + Beetson back in the day....

 

[The Colonel]

I think some of these kids tend to get an easy ride into teams based on their talent but when it comes time to take the next step up they don't seem to accept they have to do the extra work to keep their place. They've been conditioned to accept that they will be selected because they are more talented then someone else. When the less talented player gets a shot based on the back of his hard work - the talented player isn't sure how to accept that.

Plenty of players have the talent to play first grade - Parramatta lower grades have been littered with them over the years as has just about every other club in the competition. It comes down to whether or not they want to do the hard work involved.

Is it an indegenous thing as all the players mentioned are either aboriginal or part aboriginal and I'm sure Ale is part Aboriginal?

You could probably argue that point with some success but I'm not sure its just an indigenous trait. Plenty of players of all different nationalities have fallen by the wayside with too much talent in the past.

 

[miccle]

Leon Bott is another who just never put in.. at all.

Must be a NSW thing ;-)

 

[The Colonel]

Leon Bott is another who just never put in.. at all.

Must be a NSW thing ;-)

:lol: Been a few talented Toowoomba players that have shown all the promise and not delivered too. ;-)

 

[Panjabi]

Is it an indegenous thing as all the players mentioned are either aboriginal or part aboriginal and I'm sure Ale is part Aboriginal?

He's multi racial, half pacific islander, the other half european.

It's not a racial thing, its a laziness thing.