It annoys me watching Kane Linnett and Cam King playing for the Cows and the Stewart brothers playing for Manly, but what you say is true, you can't keep them all. And I agree about Smith, Slater, amd Cronk. The donkeys derped on those 3. It happens. Not one of our juniors, but we did have a chance to sign JT as a youngster amd rejected him.
We are starting to get more and more Melbourne born and bred players coming through the grades. Was always going to take time.
And the club only being around for 16 years but people expecting us to already have a shitload of juniors as most Sydney sides do is ridiculous.
Yeah, Mayer was whining a bit, and negotiations with Tedesco were poorly handled, I agree to that.
As for the 'big 3', they have kicked on far in excess of their form at a junior level. It was very astute and fortunate scouting, but seeing people like POPEYE assume that it will always be the case for the Storm is simply hilarious.
I agree, we got extremely lucky with those 3 (and Inglis but he was always going to be a star no matter where he played).
But please don't lump all of us in with POPEYE, majority of us know we won't have it this good for awhile, especially with Bellamy retiring.
not everyone is a superstar at that age and not all superstas at that age have a future. You look at juniors we have poached with much excitement and turned into duds (Jackson nicolau, brett Anderson, brent McConnell). Yet squad fillers at junior age like steve southern and shane tronc gave several seasons of great service to us.
A lot of it is hit and hope at that age and on top of that If you looked at your top 25 now and had to make an estimated guess and who will retire, who can change roles and who will still be there and which gaps will need to be filled. It's impossible.
Agreed.
frustrating that, to the vast majority of they debuted for the club they are automatically their juniors.
The juniors debate is a joke these days.
To me, a junior is someone who played majority of their junior footy in the clubs catchment area and came up through the grades.
Getting some kid from the bush to play Harold Matts isn't a junior imo.
