The Swamp

[Delboy]

The only place you get value from recruitment is in pathways. Are we recruiting quality youngsters or not?

Why do you ask questions when you know that we have recruited heavily into the juniors.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Why do you ask questions when you know that we have recruited heavily into the juniors.

Because you keep banging on about our recruitment being poor. If we are recruiting well into the pathways then we are recruiting well.

Recruitment into the top 17 is just a matter of spending enough money. Everyone knows who the best players are. Bringing them to your club depends on whether you can win a bidding war, or whether you even need to.

 

[Delboy]

You argumentative tosser, if you bothered to read any posts other thtan those you want to start a back and forth on, You may understand that I have complimented the job done by DeGois and Shepard in outside recruitment for the junior rep programs. There are players from country, QLD, Nz and other clubs all recruited into the Eels system.

Not only have we done well across all junior comps over the past 3/4 years we still have young players eligible for Ball and Flegg playing Sydney Shield etc to retain them as they mature to gain experience.

Saying things like everyone knows etc doesn’t mean you actually know much at all other than going round and round from a distance and looking at stats and similar.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Saying things like 'everyone knows' just means if us fans can see it, then even the worst full time member of an NRL recruitment staff can see it. Being aware of this stuff is their job. The "next Fittler/Johns/Lockyer/etc" might only be 12 years old and I assure you every club in the NRL is already tracking him. Every SG Ball star, every 20 year old currently holding his own in reserve grade, every 'maybe' with half a dozen NRL games under his belt, has already been on everyone's radar since he was playing Harold Matts, if not earlier.

Knowing the best players isn't how the better recruitment/retention staff members are differentiated from the rest. What separates them is knowing how much they are worth, and how to avoid overpaying them.

 

[the phantom menace]

 

[Gary Gutful]

Pou making sense again. Delboy gibbering.

 

[the phantom menace]

As long as they continue to do it in here, we can all be thankful!