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Glenneel

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If this is true I find it a bit mind boggling and pretty poor from the Chooks

Firstly, Pearce is a decent half (but not great) and current SOO half for the Blues and at his peak playing age and 5 years younger than Cronk, yet they have the short sightedness to ditch him for Cronk who has 2 years left at the most and possibly just 1.

Secondly I find their their disloyalty rather staggering.

I think it will be interesting to see how Cronk goes at the Chooks as he has been surrounded by some of the games best players at the Storm, Maroons and the Roos, he wont get it so easy at the Chooks. I do not think he will produce the same form at the Chooks that he did at the Storm.
Maybe that's what it takes to win a gf, ruthlessness. Throw loyalty out the window. Actually Parra tend to hold onto players much longer than they should after their use by date. Makes for a good club environment but not conducive to winning a gf.

Look at Kelly, we persevered with him for 4(?) years whereas Souths played him in one, maybe two games, and punted him at end of year. Everyone knew he would never make a first grader yet we kept him. Same with Mannah now, his performance and minutes have dropped yet we recently gave him a 3 year extension and I have heard he is on very big coin, about twice what he is worth imo.
 

Poupou Escobar

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Kelly came to us as a top 17 player when we were shit and then became a backup when we signed Norman. Just like he was a backup at the Storm and the Bunnies.
 

Incorrect

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Kelly came to us as a top 17 player when we were shit and then became a backup when we signed Norman. Just like he was a backup at the Storm and the Bunnies.
f**k Pou - Do you have a Google alert set up to notify you whenever someone says something bad about Luke Kelly on the internet??!! Quick as a flash, you're in there sticking up for the battler whenever he's mentioned....
 

hindy111

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Maybe that's what it takes to win a gf, ruthlessness. Throw loyalty out the window. Actually Parra tend to hold onto players much longer than they should after their use by date. Makes for a good club environment but not conducive to winning a gf.

Look at Kelly, we persevered with him for 4(?) years whereas Souths played him in one, maybe two games, and punted him at end of year. Everyone knew he would never make a first grader yet we kept him. Same with Mannah now, his performance and minutes have dropped yet we recently gave him a 3 year extension and I have heard he is on very big coin, about twice what he is worth imo.


Mannah is worth 250k. Is he in much more?
 

Poupou Escobar

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f**k Pou - Do you have a Google alert set up to notify you whenever someone says something bad about Luke Kelly on the internet??!! Quick as a flash, you're in there sticking up for the battler whenever he's mentioned....
How is calling him a backup sticking up for him? I'm educating dumber posters than myself that NRL clubs have squads of 30+. Some of those players are not only backups, but they will never be first graders.
 

Glenneel

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Kelly came to us as a top 17 player when we were shit and then became a backup when we signed Norman. Just like he was a backup at the Storm and the Bunnies.
Well Pou we might have been shit but he was NEVER going to get us out of it but I mentioned him because after his contract ended we still signed him for another 1 or 2 years. That has been our problem, signing shit players AND keeping them well past their ubd. Once we see they'll never amount to anything that is when we should punt them, that's what all the good teams do! Actually RS did us a favour punting all the shit players we had when he came and bringing in a few good players.
 

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