Rumours and Stuff

[Chipmunk]

Your 18th 'best' player is likely to play at least half the season. Do you really want im to only be worth minimum salary?

I doubt the Storm have many players outside of their Top 17 on minimum wage. Id imagine Slade.Griffin, who was player 17 last season was on little more than minimum wage. The same goes for Brandon Smith this year. It doesn't seem to affect them.

I'd be suprised if Kenny Bromwich is on much more thab half what we're paying Evans.

 

[Chipmunk]

And then when a guy like Billy Rogers plays 15 games in a season because he's our 19th "best" player and someone's done his ACL, you'll be the first one bitching about our depth.

Haha

Our so called depth hasn't seem to help us one bit this season.

Spend your money on a Top 17.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

I do think we've got too much depth though. But maybe we did that because we knew we'd have a lot of injuries.

 

[Chipmunk]

It would be interesting to look at how many appearances were made by the 18th-25th players to make the most appearances for each of these teams.

I CBF though, TBH.

I dont get what your point is Pou Bear?

 

[Chipmunk]

I do think we've got too much depth though. But maybe we did that because we knew we'd have a lot of injuries.

I'm guessing you're joking about knowing about the injuries, but if not, surely we'd have to look at the reason why wed expect to get so many injuries.

 

[Bazal]

Our so called depth hasn't seem to help us one bit this season.

Spend your money on a Top 17.

You need fringe first graders. You'd have to be a complete idiot to even argue that.

You are simply not going to attract anyone worthwhile if all you are going to offer is minimum wage. You reckon our depth is poor now? Wait til you offer minimum wage to a guy who is going to be in the 21 every week and first call for injury. Wait til you have four or five injuries and Magnus Stromquist gets a call up because everyone else took the 20-30k extra offered elsewhere and we were left to pick over the NSW cup...

Suggesting that we should pay minimum wage to anyone outside the top 17 is quite easily one of the stupidest things I've ever read on here

 

[Chipmunk]

You need fringe first graders. You'd have to be a complete idiot to even argue that.

You are simply not going to attract anyone worthwhile if all you are going to offer is minimum wage. You reckon our depth is poor now? Wait til you offer minimum wage to a guy who is going to be in the 21 every week and first call for injury. Wait til you have four or five injuries and Magnus Stromquist gets a call up because everyone else took the 20-30k extra offered elsewhere and we were left to pick over the NSW cup...

Suggesting that we should pay minimum wage to anyone outside the top 17 is quite easily one of the stupidest things I've ever read on here

I think we should have a few outside of the Top 17 on more than the minimum, but players 21 to 30 should all be minimum wage.

 

[Bazal]

I think we should have a few outside of the Top 17 on more than the minimum, but players 21 to 30 should all be minimum wage.

Oh so now it's 21-30 instead of 18-30?

You don't know even what you want to argue. Whinging for the sake of whinging.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

I'm guessing you're joking about knowing about the injuries, but if not, surely we'd have to look at the reason why wed expect to get so many injuries.

I was joking.

 

[Eelogical]

I do think we've got too much depth though. But maybe we did that because we knew we'd have a lot of injuries.

It appears our depth is in the turnip category. We need more cauliflower.

 

[Chipmunk]

Oh so now it's 21-30 instead of 18-30?

You don't know even what you want to argue. Whinging for the sake of whinging.

No, my argument was that those particular players in that list from 18-32 are only worth minimum wage to u in 2019... that doesn't mean we shouldn't consider playing different players more than minimum wage who arent Top 17. To start with, I dont think some on the list are worthy of Top 17, but they're probably worth some money more than minimum wage.

 

[Eelogical]

I was joking.

Well, there's a turn up for the books.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

It appears our depth is in the turnip category. We need more cauliflower.

I dunno. I remember Doug Mulray spruiking one of those turnip boys. Bogdan I think.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I doubt the Storm have many players outside of their Top 17 on minimum wage. Id imagine Slade.Griffin, who was player 17 last season was on little more than minimum wage. The same goes for Brandon Smith this year. It doesn't seem to affect them.

Fair point, and here are the 18th-20th most appearances for the Storm last year:

13 Blair
13 Scott
12 Jacks

Blair re-signed while he was starting at centre in late 2016. He would be on about double the minimum salary. There were a dozen clubs vying to poach Scott from the Sharks in 2015, and I doubt he would have taken much less than the highest offer. He had only played half a season of NYC at that point (aged 18) but the demand was there. With a dozen clubs after him he could've been on $200k. He was good enough to make his NRL debut in round two the next year.

I agree Ryley Jacks would have been on minimum salary.

I'd be suprised if Kenny Bromwich is on much more thab half what we're paying Evans.

How much would a club need to pay him to leave his brother and all his mates and the city in which he has lived for his entire adult life? Comparing us with the Storm is apples and oranges. A better comparison would be another Sydney club. Melbourne (and Brisbane and the Cowboys) all have massive retention advantages above and beyond the recruitment advantages they have from TPAs.

 

[Eelogical]

I dunno. I remember Doug Mulray spruiking one of those turnip boys. Bogdan I think.

Yup. You deserve the brocolli award.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I do think we've got too much depth though. But maybe we did that because we knew we'd have a lot of injuries.

Having too much depth is a side effect of squad turnover. Guys like Vave and Matagi were temporary signings, designed to bolster the top 17 when more suitable targets weren't available and juniors weren't ready.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I dont get what your point is Pou Bear?

My point is that it would be interesting, exactly as I said. If I was trying to make a sneaky point I'd ask you a question.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I'm guessing you're joking about knowing about the injuries, but if not, surely we'd have to look at the reason why wed expect to get so many injuries.

Because one way to try to achieve a cap advantage is to take risks on injury prone players the stronger clubs don't need to take risks on.

 

[Matty Bhoy]

 

[Chipmunk]

Austin would be a dumb recruitment for mine.