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Which Big 4 is better?

  • Broncos

    Votes: 6 17.1%

  • Storms

    Votes: 29 82.9%
  • Total voters
    35
BLKOUT!

BLKOUT!

Juniors
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If there was to be a draft they'd have to overhaul the junior system entirely first. A draft under the current system would be geniused. You couldn't have a kid running around for Canberra or Penrith in the NYC or SG Ball then have him picked by Souths or some other sh*t team in the draft. You'd need to have him playing in a high level competition that isn't affiliated with current NRL clubs, it'd need to exist as its own entity.

The AFL draft is a joke, the NBA/NFL draft are the model to follow but unless you had a second tier junior competition running independently and running well for teams to pick players from, it wouldn't work.

That's the only way it could happen imo. Because then you wouldn't have Roosters junior B. Person being picked #1 by Souths in the draft, you'd have Windsor Wolves player B. Person being picked #1 by Souths and so on.
 
Loudstrat

Loudstrat

Coach
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simostorm said:
Surley its time the NRL is considering the Draft to properly spread talent in this league. NYC comp is set up perfectly for young players to be involved in a draft system.

who's in favor of a draft?
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It is illegal under the Trades Practices Act. Therefore, I guess the Warriors could be the only ones that participate.

Simon Mannering - Geez, I'm drafted to the Warriors AGAIN!


BDH said:
:lol::lol::lol:

Can you please name all these juniors?:lol:



:crazy: Yup, News Ltd are the devil. Hey I got an idea; move out of a saturated market, open up to all the potential new fans, grow a culture that players WANT to play in, and then players may want to come to your club too????
Or simply piss and moan about how Storm and Broncos are "one team towns" and have an unfair advantage over the rest of the competition, etc.

*NB; This next rant isn't aimed directly at "Parra"*

Honestly, the majority of Sydneysiders on this forum contradict themselves so much it's pathetic. Do you guys want successful clubs or to be "traditional". Do you want to be attractive to players or do you want to live in 1983??

Drafts, pointing fingers at other clubs salary caps, etc....it all comes from one inevitable truth; Sydney clubs are struggling because they are in a saturated market. And this market is a throwback to when it was named the NSWRL. Many of these same posters laugh at AFL, yet fail to realise that competition is national and we still are happy to survive as a mediocre competition, mostly for selfish reasons like "tradition", etc.

Time to grow NRL, time to grow up Sydney clubs.
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The draft idea came from a Storm supporter.
Less Sydney clubs are struggling than non Sydney clubs. Who either have sugar daddies from News Ltd, scrounge around for loose change so they can field a NYC team, or are called the Warriors.

And yes, I laugh at you holding AFL up as the model for a successful comp - when half their clubs are within a watermelon seed spit from the Melbourne GPO. And you think it's national? You are delusional - they havent got a club more than 15 minutes from the coast. Fine if we are talking about Hawaii.

Sorry, the NRL is more representative of Australians than the twinkie comp you wish we were.
 
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badav

Bench
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Parra said:
There already is a draft.

When one News Ltd owned team gets caught cooking the books they draft the gun player to another News Ltd team.

And some people still think that News Ltd should have a say in how the game is run.
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The Bronco's are a publicly listed company with a large number of shareholders.

On the draft, it is a model that would never work for Rugby League, with the structures that are currently in place.
 
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Eels Dude

Eels Dude

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Jatz Crackers said:
The melbourne storm will be in favour of a draft once they have developed a pre emptive strategy to rort it.
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Melbourne Storm would be in favour of a draft already because it means they can steal players from others clubs legally. Since they don't produce juniors of their own they've nothing to lose and everything to gain.
 
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simostorm

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badav said:
The Bronco's are a publicly listed company with a large number of shareholders.

On the draft, it is a model that would never work for Rugby League, with the structures that are currently in place.
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yep.. your right. Oh well.. who needs it eh! :)
 
meltiger

meltiger

First Grade
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Bro Bear said:
No, I don't believe a draft would be good for the game. Clubs will not endeavour to develop their own juniors will wait on drafting others from other clubs.
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It shouldn't be a club responsibility anyway. Once the independant Commision is in place a long term strategy should be for junior development to be managed centrally by the head body.



As for the draft, will never work. Once again, it will fail the second a player gets drafted to a club he doesn't want to play for.


They get away with it in the AFL & American sports because simply - Where else are they going to go?
 
beads6

beads6

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In the long term the draft is a good idea, the independent comission will have to take over all junior development if the draft system is to work though.
 
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CMUX

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meltiger said:
It shouldn't be a club responsibility anyway. Once the independant Commision is in place a long term strategy should be for junior development to be managed centrally by the head body.



As for the draft, will never work. Once again, it will fail the second a player gets drafted to a club he doesn't want to play for.


They get away with it in the AFL & American sports because simply - Where else are they going to go?
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100% agree. The draft in theory is great and works well in AFL and NFL but the clubs in those competitions have greater power over the players because there is no other option in those sports apart from those 2 competitions so they just have to play for any side who employs them
 
Tonearm Terrorwrist

Tonearm Terrorwrist

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meltiger said:
They get away with it in the AFL & American sports because simply - Where else are they going to go?
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They get away with it in the NBA aswell even with a booming European market to contend with.

There is nothing to stop an NFL player playing another sport the same way Rugby League players choose to play Yawnion or Boggerball, if they want to chase the cash let them.

A salary cap and a draft go hand in hand you can't have one without the other.
 
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