Rumours and Stuff

[Incorrect]

There is coach at Leeds off contract in 2025 if your interested.

Plenty on here reckon he is a good coach.

Good coach... Even better bloke....

 

[hindy111]

Wish I was sure of that. Im happy with the decisions they are making at the moment but no confidence in the results

Whats sad is when fans have to try and feel better when another side fails. It took a last rnd victory to not win the spoon on points differential. Parras squad was far stronger and where a bigger failure then the Tigers.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Pffft Manly havent even made the semis 50% of the last 10years...
Penrith on the other hand..........

Unlike Penrith, Manly have never won the spoon, which was my point. Filling your squad with kids is a recipe for running last.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Mate. I DO know, because unlike you I watch rugba leeg and not just read NRL stats. Ive noticed one club completely invest in development of local juniors and they have been pretty good at it. Then I look at whether my club has that opportunity available to it.

The trick is keeping these merkins. Wait and see. In fact, think back to your strong juniors of a decade ago. Plenty of NRL premiership winners came out of your club but none of them won with the Tigers.

Don’t be fooled. Bringing them into your pathways is only part of the solution. Penrith crowing about their great junior development is smoke and mirrors to distract from Keno TPAs.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Mate Im aware of that, Pous point was that Tigers bought them from Manly and there are no inherent benefit in developing your own juniors.

Blacktown is 9km from Kellyville.
Balcktown is 30km from Penrith
Blacktown is 50km from Narrabeen
Blacktown is 25km to Concord.

It’s all Sydney ffs. You never drove more than 5-7 minutes for work? People do it all the time. Half the merkins in our squad would live closer to Easts/Souths or Manly.

 

[T.S Quint]

Exactly!

Jahream Bula
Junior Tupou
Declan Casey
Tallyn Da Silva
Josh Feledy
Lachlan Galvin
Kit Laulillii
Luke Laulilii
Heath Mason
Justin Matamua
Jordan Miller
Fonua Pole
Alex Seyfarth
Tony Sukkar

add to that Latu, Sione Fainu, Ailamalo, Faataape, Johannsen, Porter, To'a, who debuted at Tigers but werent juniors and thats exactly what a development Club looks like. Tigers are shit and we are many other things, but clearly a development club is one. Lets bookmark and check back in three years and lets see if it worked.

I don't know who all those players are.
Ergo, your development is shit.

Good day sir.

 

[T.S Quint]

Yes I think the squad has a fair bit of talent in it. No reason we can't do well next season.

Long term... we need to turn into the sort of club that finds and nutures elite talent. We need to find the next Cameron Munster or the next Reece Walsh. We just Don't seem to develop this level of player, hayne is the only one in my time supporting the club.

Were were hoping Dylan Brown would be that player.
He's very good, but he ain't at Munster's level yet.

 

[Obscene Assassin]

Guymer played most of his junior football in the centres before moving to the back row over the past two seasons.

And his first year with us, Harold Matthews, he played five-eighth

 

[T.S Quint]

100% geographic location matters. Magpies train at Campbelltown, Balmain at Concord but where that isnt a issue, better players always go to Magpies. Magpies are always prioritised.

Probably because that's where the money's coming from.

 

[T.S Quint]

Mate. I DO know, because unlike you I watch rugba leeg and not just read NRL stats. Ive noticed one club completely invest in development of local juniors and they have been pretty good at it. Then I look at whether my club has that opportunity available to it.

That word right there is the most important part.
Putting money into keeping these kids at the club is what has to happen to build these 'development squads'. Every other club is trying to poach them away, so how do you keep them?

Penrith began pumping money into their junior systems (i.e. outbidding other clubs for their kids, probably by circumventing the salary cap) and it has worked out great for them. The Tigers have begun keeping some of theirs together, as have the Eels (despite the loss of a few whose pathways to FG are blocked). I still don't think we are putting enough money into our juniors though. Do you think the Tigers are?

 

[T.S Quint]

The trick is keeping these merkins. Wait and see. In fact, think back to your strong juniors of a decade ago. Plenty of NRL premiership winners came out of your club but none of them won with the Tigers.

Don’t be fooled. Bringing them into your pathways is only part of the solution. Penrith crowing about their great junior development is smoke and mirrors to distract from Keno TPAs.

FFS!

 

[JokerEel]

Manly just Stole one of the Tigers juniors... Looks like a "Large" kid.

I guess they don't need blacktown anymore just steal them from the other clubs direct

 

[lingard]

Everything on this forum is completely irrelevant....

Nothing really matters much. And, in the end, nothing really matters at all.

 

[Stevie]

 

[Gherkin]

Smart from the broncos. Better to cut him now rather than drag it on and waste another year like we did

 

[JokerEel]

What's going to happen to Billy!

 

[Soto]

Smart from the broncos. Better to cut him now rather than drag it on and waste another year like we did

7 years early

 

[Avenger]

Reynolds says players ‘blind-sided’ as Broncos split with coach Kevin Walters

One of Brisbane’s highest profile players on Thursday night said players were still awaiting communications from the club.

www.smh.com.au

You have to laugh at some of the suggested replacements.

 

[senior]

Josh hannay will probably get the job and then we can see if we made the right choice

 

[Avenger]

Josh hannay will probably get the job and then we can see if we made the right choice

They won't go after another rookie.