Mr_Knightside
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Honestly I find it bizarre that there are people in this forum who would be against Brown as a recruitment target. We spend most of our time on here whining about how bad our team is and how we lack quality especially in key positions, then one of the best 5/8 options in the comp becomes available and the club shows interest and people aren’t on board with the idea…
I get that 6 years is risky (and it is) but clubs like ours don’t get anywhere near a premiership without taking risks, unless we somehow manage to produce another golden generation of local juniors topped off with a couple of all time greats like we did in the 90s.
The last major risk we took was signing KP for $700K per year based on one first grade game at the time, and I’d argue that on the whole it has paid off so far. We haven’t won a comp yet obviously but that’s mainly because we made some bad decisions in other areas like paying DSaf silly money to plod around for a few years.
Honestly I’d much rather we pay Dylan Brown $1.2m per year for 6 years and it be a failure, knowing that the club has aspirations of getting some of the best NRL talent in a Knights jersey, rather than run around with bog standard halves for another half a decade and know that the club was ok with that.
I get that 6 years is risky (and it is) but clubs like ours don’t get anywhere near a premiership without taking risks, unless we somehow manage to produce another golden generation of local juniors topped off with a couple of all time greats like we did in the 90s.
The last major risk we took was signing KP for $700K per year based on one first grade game at the time, and I’d argue that on the whole it has paid off so far. We haven’t won a comp yet obviously but that’s mainly because we made some bad decisions in other areas like paying DSaf silly money to plod around for a few years.
Honestly I’d much rather we pay Dylan Brown $1.2m per year for 6 years and it be a failure, knowing that the club has aspirations of getting some of the best NRL talent in a Knights jersey, rather than run around with bog standard halves for another half a decade and know that the club was ok with that.
