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And since Mannah is on $1M per year, it's obvious that local juniors actually DON'T accept less money to play for us. So there's no need to offer them contracts in the hope that they're good enough in three or four years time.
The Storm let Maloney go as well. And we never had Keary - Norths and Manly both rissoled him from their junior rep teams. Both players were moved on. You can't hang onto every player hoping they improve. Come back when you're good enough.
Trouble is he thought we had more guns then we actually have.
It seems you suck in the art of junior identification as well. Not even if they are talented or not, just whether they were actual parra juniors
He didn't even bring him into the development players so from that you can assume he wasn't rated or wanted by BA.
That's because we are in the dead middle of Sydney, and our kids are all in demand from other clubs. Look at Harold Matthews - we win it every second year because most clubs don't give a f**k about 16 year olds. It is when they turn 18 that they can sign adult contracts. So by the time they are SG Ball age half of them are signed by other clubs. We just won our first SG Ball title in a decade, despite winning four Harold Matts titles in that time. The Roosters have never won Harold Matthews but they have won SG Ball three times in the past 10 years.
This is because both are in genuinely high quality junior catchment areas - rugby league playing families either live in the country (or Queensland) or if they live in Sydney they are increasingly moving toward the Blue Mountains. Market forces. The real question is why our under 16s are so good. Even the Panthers have only won it once in the past ten years. Canberra haven't won Harold Matts Cup since 1995. I get the feeling we're the only club that takes it seriously.
We had enough guns to finish in the top four last year. So losing a winger (and replacing him with Hayne and Evans) shouldn't be enough to get us the spoon.
He was (allegedly) offered a spot in next year's development squad, which matches his talent shown so far. Offering him more would be stupid, so let Manly make the desperation move. They're the ones in cap trouble.
Hills Bulls, but he wasn't good enough for our junior rep teams. What do you do with late bloomers? As I said, he was also cut from other clubs' junior rep teams.
This is what the sad part is, we should not be regressing after 2016 and 2017 we should be building and building towards a premiership.
I can’t believe we didn’t sign him up as a 12 year old or whatever he was running around with Hills
Maloney also took a long time to get where he is. Should we have shelved him for that long as well? I’m sure once we dusted him off he’d have been as good as he is now.
Wasn't John West the one the Dogs rejected?
