There is not enough 1st graders to go round to fill 16 teams, let alone 17 until money invested in reserve grade which it wont. Also with overseas a $$$ option for players out of form or are of reserve grade standard nothing will change.Some of our current 17 is of a reserve grade standard. We need at least 4 first-grade props in our side and all we have is F Molo. The rest are reserve graders.
17 true first-graders plus firing NRL players and the rest being promising juniors coming through, for example, Ramsey, Sloan, Armone, and Sullivan are players that I consider to be promising juniors coming through.
It will get worse until about 5 teams are culled to bring back to a 12 team comp which I will hate.