who will you be supporting?

[RedVee]

I do her.

ha, do you?

 

[This Year?]

If it weren't for Easts and Manly Superleague would have won. All clubs should be kissing our feet for saving them

Quoted for lolz.

 

[mongoose]

If it weren't for Easts and Manly Superleague would have won. All clubs should be kissing our feet for saving them

Don't forget the Crushers too!

 

[Benjamin Snootington]

Cant wait for all the "roosters territory" posters to be ripped down tomorrow night

 

[Doomednow]

If it weren't for Easts and Manly Superleague would have won. All clubs should be kissing our feet for saving them

If it weren't for the clubs that actually bother to develop talent you wouldn't have a team.

Minichello
Perrett
SKD
Linnett
Pearce
Kennedy
Leulia
Aubusson
Friend
FPN
Maseo
Cherrington
Symonds


All made their first grade debuts with us and I don't give a sh*t where they played when they were 6, 10 or 14 or 18, we gave them their chance in first grade.

If they were playing/grew up/"developed" in someone elses catchment area I don't care, it just means that club was lucky that they were born nearby. They would of been good players no matter who they played junior footy with.

Conn - barely wanted by his previous club
Graham - barely wanted by his previous club
Ryles - playing in France

Carney came to us because we were willing to take a gamble that other clubs weren't.

Myles and Anasta are the big name signings at our club.

But this is all irrelevant anyway, the NRL exists to find out who the best Rugby League club in Australia is, not who "develops the most juniors" which some people with their heads still in the 1950's seem to think it is.

If you can produce the "Most juniors developed" trophy, I will concede your point.

The only reason people give the Bulldogs sh*t is down to the fact that they pissed and moaned about other clubs buying players while they claimed they were some sort of moral bastion and bred all their own. They now have an almost entirely bought team and have been shown to be massive hypocrites.

So other teams that recognise talent early on and spend the time and resources on developing players so that they will actually turn into excellent professional sportsmen... that doesn't count for sh*t? I couldn't care if you support a team that would rather poach talent from other clubs than have a decent catchment because its your local club or your dad supports them or whatever, but don't you dare forget or try to dismiss where all that talent you poach comes from.

Exactly right. So 13 out of our best 19 players have only played for our club, that would put us right up there in “player development”.

Clubs like the roosters are important because there probably aren't enough spots for all the produced talent in first grade otherwise. Despite all the talent we have lost to your team I've never held that against them for this very reason (and I would also have to blame our own clubs mismanagement and the players themselves). But this sort of ignorance and attitude makes you deserve to feel crushed on Sunday.

 

[redandgreenduck]

Absolutely hated the Roosters in the early part of this decade, but their relative mediocrity since the Fittler days has somewhat tempered that hate.

Still, f**k em.

Hope the Dragons smash em.

But I fear that the Roosters will come out on top

All that

 

[redandgreenduck]

I'll be supporting Easts, but that's because I have since '96.

Your birth year....cute.

 

[redandgreenduck]

I started supporting the Roosters in 1996 too.

But I moved to Oz in October 1995 and I was living in Double Bay.

I asked my brother in law (who only supports a team if he thinks they're going to win... Parra in the 80's, Newcastle in the 90's and now St George, even though he was born in the East and lived there all his life) what Easts were like... he said "crap" so I said "they're the team for me then".

Been supporting them through thick and thin ever since. Always will.

Aww...thats a nice story...now f*cking go back to the sh*thole you left.

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

You made 3 consecutive posts half an hour apart with no other posts in between... lol

 

[adamkungl]

Aww...thats a nice story...now f*cking go back to the sh*thole you left.

Hang in there champ, I'm sure your mob will scrape into the finals again one day!

 

[redandgreenduck]

You made 3 consecutive posts half an hour apart with no other posts in between... lol

I browse this while I play poker...tool.

 

[TheDalek079]

Hang in there champ, I'm sure your mob will scrape into the finals again one day!

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

[DC_fan]

I have been a league fans for over 40 years. For some reason this season I have little interest in the grand final. I will watch it on TV. But if I missed it, it wouldn't concern me.

 

[CMUX]

Clubs like the roosters are important because there probably aren't enough spots for all the produced talent in first grade otherwise. Despite all the talent we have lost to your team I've never held that against them for this very reason (and I would also have to blame our own clubs mismanagement and the players themselves). But this sort of ignorance and attitude makes you deserve to feel crushed on Sunday.

It is called the professional era. Who cares where the players come from?

Ther NRL must be the only competition in the world that still holds “junior development”” as an important ideal. Look at all the top competitions in the world… NFL… Premier league… MLB… the list goes on, none of them give a second thought to where a player comes from, the clubs know what they want and they go out and get it.

My appluase of the post you were referring to had nothing to do with arrogance, it was to show that contrary to common belief the roosters have a high number of players that have only played first grade for us compared to other clubs.

 

[The 18th Man]

I am a fence sitter, not really concerned with who wins or loses. I have never liked the Dragons, so I guess if I had to nominate one team, I'd say the Roosters though that's only because they're the lesser of two evils from my vantage point.

Enjoy the day both sets of fans, it should be a great day!

 

[adamkungl]

If it weren't for the clubs that actually bother to develop talent you wouldn't have a team.



So other teams that recognise talent early on and spend the time and resources on developing players so that they will actually turn into excellent professional sportsmen... that doesn't count for sh*t? I couldn't care if you support a team that would rather poach talent from other clubs than have a decent catchment because its your local club or your dad supports them or whatever, but don't you dare forget or try to dismiss where all that talent you poach comes from.



Clubs like the roosters are important because there probably aren't enough spots for all the produced talent in first grade otherwise. Despite all the talent we have lost to your team I've never held that against them for this very reason (and I would also have to blame our own clubs mismanagement and the players themselves). But this sort of ignorance and attitude makes you deserve to feel crushed on Sunday.

I would argue that the most important 'development' work is done between the ages of 17 and 22, the years when the player goes from talented youngster to professional footballer. Roosters do as much development in this regard as anyone, where they come from is irrelevant. It isn't the Roosters fault that clubs like Penrith have massive junior areas compared to ours. Ours isn't even what it should be thanks to Souths' scummy ways when the boundaries were redrawn decades ago. What sane person thinks Coogee and Moore Park aren't part of the Eastern Suburbs?

Where other clubs put effort into maintaining their loads of junior clubs, Roosters put the majority of that effort into talent spotting. Most of our recruitment is from QLD, NZ and country areas more than other Sydney clubs anyway. I'm sure Brisbane can live with us 'poaching' some of their young talent :roll:

 

[little_aza]

Probably the Dragons - they've been working hard for two years now, and also because 1979 is a lot longer than 2002. But I don't really mind who wins, I don't love or hate either team.

 

[1 Eyed TEZZA]

I would argue that the most important 'development' work is done between the ages of 17 and 22, the years when the player goes from talented youngster to professional footballer. Roosters do as much development in this regard as anyone, where they come from is irrelevant. It isn't the Roosters fault that clubs like Penrith have massive junior areas compared to ours. Ours isn't even what it should be thanks to Souths' scummy ways when the boundaries were redrawn decades ago. What sane person thinks Coogee and Moore Park aren't part of the Eastern Suburbs?

Where other clubs put effort into maintaining their loads of junior clubs, Roosters put the majority of that effort into talent spotting. Most of our recruitment is from QLD, NZ and country areas more than other Sydney clubs anyway. I'm sure Brisbane can live with us 'poaching' some of their young talent :roll:

I was speaking to a Rugby Union coach a year or so ago and he said to me that the vital age for a players development is from the age 13-16. He said once they're about 16 the coaching (in both codes) focus' less on teaching players skills but more on in game tactics and actually winning the match.

 

[The 18th Man]

I have been a league fans for over 40 years. For some reason this season I have little interest in the grand final. I will watch it on TV. But if I missed it, it wouldn't concern me.

Sadly, I feel the same way.

Let's hope the boys turn it on and we are both eating our words in about two hours time

 

[RockWheel]

We're due for a really good grand final. Let's hope it's today.