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Poupou Escobar

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I saw a podcast where Billy slater said Melbourne were his only offer.
That was over 20 years ago though. The game is far more professional now and every club recruits from Queensland (and NZ and country NSW).
Player indenification and retention is everything. Penrith have built their roster on it, Melbourne has, Manly in the naughties. The only club that can consistently sign stars on unders are the roosters
Retention yes, but identification implies clubs aren’t all aware of the talent pool. Just because we haven’t heard of a given player doesn’t mean the 17 clubs haven’t been tracking him since before he was 18. Guys like Mitch Moses and Boyd Cordner were poached from Harold Matts teams. It doesn’t mean their existing clubs (Parra and Newcastle) didn’t know how good they were.
 

Tiger5150

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I just listened to an interview on SEN1170 with Diana Langmack who is Paul's sister. She used to work at the Panthers and now Gould has brought her over to the dogs in the role of General Manager Stakeholder Engagement/Community.

Well if anyone wants to know why @hindy111 and I both predict that the Dogs will win a GF or even more before we do try to find this interview and listen to it. We could only dream to have such a set up at the Eels and surrounded by such capable people.

We are light years away from winning a premiership and people that think otherwise are deluding themselves.

Honestly it was so deflating listening to the interview because it just solidified even more so to me how far back we are from getting things right and finally becoming a consistent premiership contender that actually has a real chance of winning GF's again.

:(

Found it -

Heard it, interesting that she said that she and Gus learned what they know from Penriff as well.
 

Delboy

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This will be interesting news to the 6 or 7 he has at Manly
they were basically a result of Scott Fulton making a decision to move into the west by hiring the sports master of Westfield Sports to the Manly scouting team . A minivan then took players twice a week from western Sydney to Manly and back at least, to training and games. They won a Matt’s and a Ball championship on the back of that decision. He's obviously moved on and though they still have Penrith and Parra juniors in their system, other clubs have moved in to the area too.
 

Pazza

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That was over 20 years ago though. The game is far more professional now and every club recruits from Queensland (and NZ and country NSW).

Retention yes, but identification implies clubs aren’t all aware of the talent pool. Just because we haven’t heard of a given player doesn’t mean the 17 clubs haven’t been tracking him since before he was 18. Guys like Mitch Moses and Boyd Cordner were poached from Harold Matts teams. It doesn’t mean their existing clubs (Parra and Newcastle) didn’t know how good they were.

No Melbourne are just on a whole other level when it comes to identifying talent.

If talent identification was such a no brainer then why do half of all first rounders in the NFL draft are busts? Why do the best teams in the NRL develop the best talent? I think talent identification is key to winning in this comp cause like slater said in the podcast I saw. He said he could have left Melbourne for more money but he always remembered Melbourne gave him his shot and he stayed loyal. Wish we had that at parra, instead we got gutho and moses all through the papers being shopped around to every team in the league. No wonder our young guys don't feel an obligation to the club that gave them their chance.
 

Stevie

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Thought of you guys today. Cooking my weekly Sunday roast and father in law coming over. My 6yo daughter was complaining about me giving her chores and when she baulked at helping me set the table, I tried to explain to her you get the work done early so you can chill.

I said…. Darling, let’s just “front load our…”.

I genuinely laughed out loud.

In my defence, it made sense!

Love you guys x
 

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