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Rocket man

Rocket man

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hindy111 said:
I think you can if they extend their contracts. Is that correct?
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We're the only club that can upgrade their current deals.
I think the Roosters paid James Maloney an up front amount when he was still contracted to the Warriors. It decreased the amount they had to pay on the salary cap when he started to play for them.
Not sure the NRL allows it now.
 
TheRam

TheRam

Coach
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84 Baby said:
Well don’t be a hindysight champion. We already have hiney.
Sure not selecting him might be a systemic issue, but it could also mean he was shit or there were better players
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What?

Blow it out the other one mate. He was always a standout, just seems that either politics or poor quality scouts got in the way again.

As for me naming 13 year old future NRL players? What an asinine question. None of us here have that job description and few would even watch them playing at that age. But what we can do is point out the glaring failures that our club keeps making with our junior identification after the fact. We can, as fans, only then see whether our club has been making the right decisions in this department by what players we have brought through and what other players from our catchment area we ignored and allowed other clubs to take advantage and recruit them.

And from where I and many others are sitting, we have been dropping the ball for quite a while now. We seem to be ignoring quite a few juniors(Schuster is another one) that are considered by other clubs quality. We can do a lot better in this area. For starters, we need to employ people that know who the best juniors are by looking at them. Someone posted a while back that Penrith poached our best man that looked after our junior setup and the guy in charge now sucks. I don't remember who said it or the guys name that was poached, but whoever it was, we should look to getting him back because it seems whoever is doing the job now is not so flash.

Also we should look at putting the guys in charge of the King's high school RL and Westfield's Sports High on our payroll. That way we may get the lions share of the best juniors in the system. I think Manly employ one of them now don't they?

As for being shit at the time? Hardly, he as the article states was always a good player and as if we are bursting at the seems with quality players coming through to suggest we ignored him because we had so many to choose from that were better. You can never have to many good players mate. At that level you hoard them like a young vintage wine and anticipate a great drop at maturity if you care for it and treat it just right to maximise its full potential.
 
Poupou Escobar

Poupou Escobar

Post Whore
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TheRam said:
Also we should look at putting the guys in charge of the King's high school RL and Westfield's Sports High on our payroll. That way we may get the lions share of the best juniors in the system. I think Manly employ one of them now don't they?
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Yeah maybe the kids are worried they’ll get detention if they don’t sign for their teacher’s NRL club. ffs what a dumb f**king theory.
 
I'm a loser baby...

I'm a loser baby...

Immortal
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Barry O'Speedwagon said:
Yes, you can definitely do it....it's just a matter of the player wanting to extend before testing the market.
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I'd value signing a lengthy contract if I was a player, rather than chasing absolute top dollar. You're only one injury away from your career ending. And a player's current club is the only team that can provide that.
 
hineyrulz

hineyrulz

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Soren Lorenson said:
Melbourne will be challenging the fine to Kaufusi. He has pleaded not guilty. NRL has a chance to make a statement but I suspect they will bend over.
Edit actually that's wrong. No chance to make a statement. If he's found guilty it just a $700 bigger fine.

NRL 2022: Storm, Felise Kaufusi, elbow, Roosters, Sam Walker, Andrew Johns

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The hide of the pricks, talk about a protected species. How many players have been on the end of one of his elbows??
 
84 Baby

84 Baby

Referee
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TheRam said:
What?

Blow it out the other one mate. He was always a standout, just seems that either politics or poor quality scouts got in the way again.
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I’ll just have to take your own expert opinion on it. My only information is of the hundreds of other teen standouts that have since gone on to do f**k all.
Matts and Ball selections are only an indication of advanced physical development for couple of teens. If you reckon anyone can tell a kid is going to be a first grader at first glance, you’re dreaming or a part of Eels junior selectors because you’ll end up with big, fast brickheads because they look good against other 13 year olds.
A better gripe is the club’s inability to actual develop rather than just identify, but yeah let’s just get better people in to do the job that seems what the smart operators do.
Not that I really care because I’m more an advocate for getting rid of NRL aligned juniors
 
Soren Lorenson

Soren Lorenson

First Grade
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This whole story about Haumole is coming from him. He's hardly going to say he wasn't that good when he was 17 and Parra were right to overlook me.
 
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