Remember back in the day we’d say when a player left us that they’d never do any good.
Not these days.
Connor Tracey
Scott Sorenson
Kurt Capewell
Josh Addo Carr
Matt King
Robbie Kearns
Bronson Xerri
Luke Metcalf
Preston Campbell
Martin Lang
Tracey is a bottom tier fullback and 29 in 2 days. Cost us the game vs Cowboys in the finals at home.
Sorenson is the definition of average. He makes effort plays and is only in that historic team because he would accept minimum wage
Capewell is a jack of all trades master of none. He isn't better than Nikora or Wilton.
JAC was off the walls before and after Melbourne. We have had Ronnie, Katoa, Feki and others who have done a great job
King was a garbo in nsw cup. Shit happens
Kearns we are going back 30 f**ken years now but we got Stevo who became a club hall of hamer instead
Xerri took drugs and got himself sacked
Metcalf left us twice when nobody wanted him. We found him for SG Ball ffs and he was always looking for a sugar hit. It will be interested to see if he is Nicho 2.0 next year
Campbell got f**ked over by Anderson. Won a comp but never hit the heights of 2001 again.
Lang is Lang. Not losing sleep over that.
Instead you could look at the ability to find guys like Talakai, Nikora, Ronaldo, Katoa, Trindall and the list goes on with zero f**king money. We are stacked in NSW cup and 20's. This current crop of useless farks are likely to not be extended but we won't keep all the kids coming through. The fact we have a dozen first grade prospects below NRL is a credit to this basket case of a club. Imagine if we had the resources of Parra. Hell even Souths. The Dragons have made the finals how many times in the last 10 years?
There are plenty of things to have the shits with but our recruitment and retention has been above average. We have missed the finals once in the last 10 years. It is annoying as f**k we can't get past the hump I get it. But fair suck of the sav. We have out performed the Broncos in the last decade by a fair margin. Didn't a stat come out saying only Storm and Panthers have out performed us in the last 3 years?