Goes to show it's hard to have everything. The salary cap ensures that, for most clubs anyway. Even the Roosters only won 6 games in 2016, same as us in 2018.
Oh blow it out your a-hole Pou.
The Rooters had a sabbatical following Pearce and JMH issues plus others.
They haven't missed a beat since they got their shit together. They just keep signing the best young talent without having a nursery to worry about. They just signed the Walker kid, another standout junior that everyone else was interested in. Amazing how when you don't have to worry about looking after your own young talent and spending around a million dollars a year looking after it, how you can just cherry pick at will.
Then you add that you have a billionaire\bankers board and the opportunities that that can provide and the best coach everybody wants to be coached by, how can you not be top 4 every year and in Grand Finals almost every year.
This is why the Roosters have never been for a system where each club is given an NSW area to look after as a nursery. Why would they want to. They are just laughing at all the development clubs that spend all there money, time and effort looking after and caring about their backyard nurseries. Yeah sure you can get lucky and have a few great kids come through all at once and have a great little period of success, but in the long run, poaching the best talent Australia wide is where its at.
And yes Pou, I know every club can do the same and does get kids from everywhere, but we and all the other development clubs primarily focus on our own juniors and look to supplement the junior roster with outside talent. Whereas like I said, the Roosters don't have to worry about funding their own nursery, which frees them to go wild on the best young talent and out bid most times other clubs for the most talented of all the juniors.
As much as it would pain me, I think that we should tell V'landys, that we don't want to fund our juniors anymore and unless something is done about 1. poaching our juniors when they are about to be ready for NRL and 2. teams like the Roosters are forced to take an area in NSW to look after and plough millions into developing. It is a huge disadvantage to us and massive advantage to the Roosters the way the setup is now.
This has been proposed a few times before, but gotten no traction due to weak leadership at the top and fearing Politis, but now that we have V'landys in charge, intimidation isn't going to be a factor and something positive might get done. I know Penrith, Canberra and other development clubs would be on board as well since they have previously been the ones that have put up a stink about it.
