Eelementary
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But not as good as the Tigers' spine, the best in the NRL
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Any club is free to play out of the new Cumberland Oval. The Tigers and Panthers are both running home games there this year. How long until the Bulldogs are playing there too?
We were run well enough, just like we are now.
That's one thing we did well. But like the Tigers five years later (Papenhuyzen, Addo-Carr, Fifita, Tedesco, Korobeite), we couldn't translate that production line to keeping a squad full of Origin players together for half a decade. That takes a whole new level of resourcing, like the Storm, Roosters and Panthers have.
I'm in NZ, cheers.
lol
No I'm arguing it's not the sign of the best run club. Not even one of the best, which was your claim.
The Smith systems also worked at the Roosters. What's the difference between the Panthers/Chooks and the Eels when Smith was here? I'll give you a hint:
Get out of my timezone
Here's an example of the 'benefit' of our location in the middle of Sydney. Gutherson drove to Eels training every day from another club's territory, yet has now moved his family to Wollongong. The implication of this is that any player contracted to our club (including local juniors) has seven other NRL clubs within driving distance of his home. Yes it increases the pool of players able to sign without relocating, but it means there are zero retention advantages due to all the competition from other Sydney clubs.
I wonder if it contributed to his retirement.
And if so, how long will it last? Just move to Sydney you weak gutted merkins. It can't be that bad for blokes earning upward of half a million a year.
He won more than half his games, including at Parramatta. He also won a premiership ffs, something most coaches never achieve. Yes he had great players but so does every premiership winning coach. Even Warren Ryan won nothing with Andrew Johns in his team, and if you love small sample sizes, Ryan's finals record at Newcastle was only 33%
He was a fantastic choice, according to Pou until it doesn’t suit his narrative and then his signing was shit and the sign of an average run club. So exhausting keeping up with his BS while he Glugs BA.
Exhausting when you see everything as either shit or the best, with nothing in between. No wonder you're so confused. You are a simpleton.
*grandpa's
Keep gilding the BA era - the rest of us will be eagerly awaiting the Ryles era and hopefully the long overdue realisation of this clubs potential.
True, but plenty of players must have shares in pubs and I get a feeling NRL don't count that on the salary cap. Also suspicious is Storm. How do they keep , say, Pezet and Faalongo even Paps, on long term deals when others are offering much more??? Very suspicious if ask me.
