Rumours and Stuff

[hineyrulz]

You never know @Soto once you start front loading it’s hard to stop!

We've been front loading our bald efforts for years moite!!

 

[Cumberland Eel]

@hineyrulz ffs my hairline is the only thing that isn’t front loading!!

 

[Poupou Escobar]

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

This is the same Melbourne Storm that brought Luke Kelly and Billy Rogers into their system? The same Melbourne Storm that had George Jennings as a first choice winger for a year? Who gave Lumelume his only finals appearance? Who gave all these guys more than a dozen NRL games:

Ryan Tandy
Maurice Blair
Slade Griffin
Junior Moors
Ryley Jacks
Tom Eisenhuth
Marion Seve
Chris Lewis
Aaron Pene
Bronson Garlick

If talent identification was such a no brainer then why do half of all first rounders in the NFL draft are busts?

Because they don't come through the junior system at the NFL clubs, and so they don't get to see their professionalism and work ethic until after they are drafted.

Why do the best teams in the NRL develop the best talent?

Do they develop it or poach it?

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.

This is the Billy Slater who had two premierships stripped for salary cap cheating?

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.

Even the top clubs lose plenty of young blokes. There's a huge list of premiership winners who left Melbourne for money. Penrith too. The difference is that they've already recruited more of them into their pathways, so they have a production line of replacements. Again, is it that they are identifying talent nobody else has, or do they just have recruitment/retention advantages? We already know Melbourne have been caught cheating the cap. Why would they need to if their talent identification is the magic bullet? Penrith lost a TPA because Maloney blabbed that he was waiting for it to be transferred to him from an outgoing Panther (Moylan?). This shit is rampant, but not evenly distributed, and explains why some players are so 'loyal' while others aren't. If we had more TPAs our players would be loyal as well.

 

[Jake the snake]

How come the Blue Wiggle isn’t coping more heat? The f**ker comes straight out trying to extort the club over Guymer and crickets from the NRL/media?? Even more interesting considering he used to be our junior scout. I’d like to hear TCT’s take on that..

TCT still crying over Booooooooods the next immortal

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Stop being melodramatic

 

[Jake the snake]

Hmmmn not only that but his son just happens to play in a team with 2 of the best junior prospects I’ve seen come through the Parra district since Hayne. God I hope they’re not with Cove.

Love to know who those 2 are? Hayne was the best I had ever seen come through from Harold
Matts. An absolute freak.