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For what reasons, apart from a coach, would they join?
Some questions for you Bunniesman around this quote and your general values:
For what reasons, apart from a coach, would they join?
Understandably you want the best side possible, but realistically can you afford it?
Looking to the future, wouldn't it be better to develop juniors?
Losing Merritt would be like losing a son, is Nightingale and Boyd really worth it?
On the off chance you get them, how are you going to be able to retain your current core group of players like Burgess, Taylor, Sutton and co?
For what reasons would Bennett join?
Some part of you must be concerned about being seen as buying a premiership and it's resulting scrutiny?
Have you thought that maybe there is a core group of fans and powerbrokers that would like to stick with developing a side rather than buying a side?
If it does go through (not sure why), will you regard it as a failure if you don't win a premiership within 2 years after purchasing all these players?
Thanks!
B would follow the occurrence of either A or C.
Sources are that one or both of Boyd and Nightingale are really attached to the idea of playing under Bennett. Boyd has already moved states once to keep playing under Bennett, I'm sure moving up the road won't be a hassle.
If I was talking about adding Boyd and Nightingale to our current squad without dropping anyone, then questions of affordability would come onto it. But some players would move onto other clubs and others will be retired this year anyway, all of which opens up capspace.
Noone is saying we're not developing juniors. Farrell, Roberts, Vaivai, Mansour, Mundine and Reynolds are all very good players that have been developed by us and that could have a future with us down the track.
I like Merritt as a person and as a player. But he already has played elsewhere once. In an ideal world we'd keep everybody. But it doesn't work like that. And if it came down to getting Boyd and Nightingale if we don't resign Merritt (along with Wesser's retirement) I would have no problem with that. IMO it would help us win and that's what matters most.
Long term backended contracts for 2013 and beyond like we did with Inglis and like what I believe we are about to do with Issac Luke. The cap should increase significantly after 2012 with the new tv deal and if we play our cards right we will play our cards right. An educated gamble.
1)He's said already he's not interested in rebuilding projects *cough*cowboys*cough*. We have the talent to go all the way. If the attacking talent we have was combined with the brilliant defense he coaches, we would be unstoppable. We don't need to be rebuilt, we just need certain elements added to what we around have. Certain elements that he's an expert in.
If you mean cap cheating, I have faith that my club would never be stupid to even consider cheating the cap.
Fans are entitled to whatever opinion they want. As for the people who actually make the decisions in my club, I would hope that their first aim is to deliver premiership #21. And doing whatever it takes (legally) to do that. Usually that's a combinaiton of both buying what you need and developing what you already have, which is what we're doing and will continue to do.
IMO every year any team doesn't win the premiership is a failure for that team. In a competition as even as the NRL, almost everyone has a chance in March.
Where is this source apart from the far recesses of your puny brain?
Spoken like a true bandwagon fan. You're proposing to get rid of Merritt, a local Redfern boy who has scored 92 tries in 134 games to secure players from another club who have not indicated in the slightest that their going anywhere.
Nightingale is a winger, a very good winger but still a winger with a strike rate of scoring tries less than that of the player you want to discard. Proves beyond doubt that you know nothing about the game.
How much money do you think Russell has? You know nothing about sport or business. Russell cannot keep dolling out money endlessly.
Proof that you are a bandwagon souths and RL fan. Also proof that you are severely lacking in every department neccesary to be a functional human being. f**k off back to the AFL gimp.
You did just reply Gimpy.
Oh please. He was a fat lump when we got him from you. We turned him into one of the best players of the toyota cup last year and we've turned him into a bloke hungry for 1st grade success. He'll be our #6 if we're unable to keep Sutton.
Oh Bennett will be his coach....
So would you punt Soward or Young for Mundine? He's a 6 or a 13 and he'd be behind those two for the forseeable future. If he stayed with the Dragons. His career would go nowhere.
