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Yea it’s a bit of a wank to appease fans who want too see ‘local juniors’ promoted. Every club develops young players.
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Yea it’s a bit of a wank to appease fans who want too see ‘local juniors’ promoted. Every club develops young players.
Eels turn to Brown
Former Warriors coach Nathan Brown is poised to turn his attention to fixing the broken junior pathways at Parramatta.
This column has highlighted the disconnect between the Eels’ senior ranks and what should be the strongest set of juniors behind Penrith. The Eels recognise this and are doing something about it.
Brown is said to have been in discussions about a short-term fix to get the club on the right path. He says it’s the sort of job he wants to do from now on, rather than coaching.
Fittler denies pushback from Blues’ Panthers pack on RCG
Blues coach Brad Fittler said the decision not to pick the former Penrith forward in NSW’s Origin III squad was his alone, denying suggestions it was because of a fall-out in clubland.www.smh.com.au
The goat Thurston played for 13 seasons with NQld and only managed the one comp. Even that game went down to the wire with the goat dropping a field goal for a golden point win. Just shows how hard it is to win a comp.
Did you not watch Perham play on the wing earlier this season? Why do you think he’d make a better centre?
Did you watch him in reggies mate he was a freak? Playing right centre he scored 4 tries, ran for 163 metres, 6 tackle breaks and made 13 tackles and only missed 1.
*Katy
Because his lack of height and weak go forward would be less of a problem. Prior to coming to Parra he had played most of his first grade at centre.
If the price suits us then why not make it a longer contract?
What if a couple of juniors to come through are better options going forward??? He's just an average first grader. Russell already is probably a better option.
I reckon he’s a much better option than Opacic on the bench.
I didn’t see the game but NRL centres tend to be just as big as wingers these days because of the defensive requirements of the position. If he was too small for the wing I wonder if he’d make it in the centres.
Despite that narrative I would say that it’s even more rare for an NRL centre to be less than 6 ft compared to an NRL winger.
Defence merkin ffs
It’s easy to quote me out of context for a laugh. At that time his game didn’t equal his hype and it was true. You have twisted that into me judging his potential, which is a bit cheeky.
There’s a very good chance that blokes like Field are good at the scouting side of things but not at the program management side that is required to best utilise staff like Field. Which isn’t to say that Nathan Brown is any good at it, but he is likely to be better than nobody, which is likely what we have dedicated to that task right now. If we’re hiring someone into the role it probably means those tasks are distributed among other members of the football department (e.g. O’Neil and the recruitment manager whose name escapes me). I suspect the people who are best at it are at the biggest clubs, and if they’re important to the outcomes of the NRL team then they would be very well paid.
Ben Rogers?
