Roosters 2 new appointments

[Captain Apollo]

I'd guess they do.
But if Albert J Rosenfield, the world's biggest ROOSTERS fan, gets all moist over one local junior that comes good . . . . then I'm guessing your juniors might not be all that good. Hence the tactic of "digging in other people's veggie patch. And even more hence . . . you know how every NRL fan says you have no juniors ?
It'd be interesting to go back over the past say, 5 years, and count the local juniors in any given team.
I know Albert would like to start with Radley ( great prospect, btw )

Remind me how many junior league players you'd have in the area which is our junior league -

It is quite literally the smallest of any NSW based club

 

[T-Boon]

Yeah "fringe" players like James Maloney, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, Mitchell Pearce, Dylan Napa, Michael Jennings, Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Aiden Guerra, Michael Gordon, Blake Ferguson. Real nuffies that lot

Last year we moved Mitchell Pearce on (actually we could have kept him but lost him because he wanted to be the starting half) and replaced him with Tedesco and Cronk plus we also leaked to the press at that stage we had enough cap space to go after another player.

Hahaha, that was like stage one in my conversion to being a Roosters fan. Our motto should be "PROVE IT!"

 

[adamkungl]

I'd guess they do.
But if Albert J Rosenfield, the world's biggest ROOSTERS fan, gets all moist over one local junior that comes good . . . . then I'm guessing your juniors might not be all that good. Hence the tactic of "digging in other people's veggie patch. And even more hence . . . you know how every NRL fan says you have no juniors ?
It'd be interesting to go back over the past say, 5 years, and count the local juniors in any given team.
I know Albert would like to start with Radley ( great prospect, btw )

Our local juniors aren't very good, for various reasons both within and outside the clubs control.
Our junior development however is close to the best in the League, as evidenced by the amount of 1 club players in our squads over the last 25 years which have won 3 Grand Finals and made the finals almost year in year out.

The broader point though - what professional sports Leagues on the planet except this one give a shit about local boys? Even the AFL doesn't and they're as parochial as anyone.
It's nice to have them but in the end it doesn't mean shit.

 

[Captain Apollo]

Our local juniors aren't very good, for various reasons both within and outside the clubs control.
Our junior development however is close to the best in the League, as evidenced by the amount of 1 club players in our squads over the last 25 years which have won 3 Grand Finals and made the finals almost year in year out.

The broader point though - what professional sports Leagues on the planet except this one give a shit about local boys? Even the AFL doesn't and they're as parochial as anyone.
It's nice to have them but in the end it doesn't mean shit.

In fact look at how a club with a large junior league, Parramatta, went when its golden generation of Kenny, Ella, Sterling et all started retiring. As many of them were local juniors, they tied to replace them with local juniors. Problem was talent wise the replacements just weren't good enough. Thus the Eels started sliding down the table and when they tried to recruit any players from other clubs, most big name players turned them down. Fact is Parramatta's turn around really happened when they landed Dean Pay, Jim Dymock, Jarrod McCracken and Jason Smith from the Bulldogs in 1996 that their on field fortunes really started to turn around.