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will the Roosters' premiership triumph inspire other teams to develop rather than buy???

Tommy Smith

Tommy Smith

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People love the sombrero jokes - they're easy and require zero thought - but one of the undoubted keys to winning a Premiership is identifying and developing great young talent into world class players and winning a comp with them before you have to try and re sign them on top tier money.

Think Latrell, Manu and Radley. Three absolute guns but all on contracts signed before they became stars.

And when you do sign a big name star you need to get it right and get value for money. Teddy and Cronk fit that bill perfectly.

Combine the two - the young stars and the odd big name signing - with the loyal clubmen types likes Cordner Friend JWH Aubusson and Liu etc and you have the perfect recipe for Premiership success.

We don't always get it right. In fact for so long we got it wrong post Freddy. Only since Robbo came along - the perfect foil to Uncle Nick - have we got the recipe just right (except 2016 of course).
 
Valheru

Valheru

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Last Week said:
So, why didn't the Roosters win more premierships in the last 10 years?
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Can't win every year.

As if any club wouldn't take 2 premierships, 3 grand finals, 4 minor premierships, 6 prelim finals and 5 top 4 finishes in any 10 year period.

We truly are the envy of the comp.
 
carcharias

carcharias

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Roosters can go back to back.
Storm are done.
Souths ?? Maybe give em a tussle
Sharks will drop off next year
Dragons same old same old
Broncos and qld are done
Panthers- Maloney another year older

Roosters can do it .
 
Last Week

Last Week

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Valheru said:
Can't win every year.

As if any club wouldn't take 2 premierships, 3 grand finals, 4 minor premierships, 6 prelim finals and 5 top 4 finishes in any 10 year period.

We truly are the envy of the comp.
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If you're the envy of the comp, why do you have no fans? When the Dogs, Parra, Souths, Tigers, Warriors and Dragons are having a good year, the bandwagon is huge. But none for the Roosters. It's strange.
 
Valheru

Valheru

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Last Week said:
If you're the envy of the comp, why do you have no fans? When the Dogs, Parra, Souths, Tigers, Warriors and Dragons are having a good year, the bandwagon is huge. But none for the Roosters. It's strange.
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Who cares?

Elite club for elite fans
 
Walpole

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The Roosters are the perfect club for relocation. All of their players come from outside the geographic location they supposedly represent so no connection there. They don't have any fans who show up during the regular season but that's okay because the Grand Final is in Sydney anyway. And uncle Nick's paper bags are just as viable in Perth or PNG. Port Moresby Roosters?
 
Lambretta

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Walpole said:
The Roosters are the perfect club for relocation. All of their players come from outside the geographic location they supposedly represent so no connection there. They don't have any fans who show up during the regular season but that's okay because the Grand Final is in Sydney anyway. And uncle Nick's paper bags are just as viable in Perth or PNG. Port Moresby Roosters?
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If we merged with St George, you'd finally have a decent f**king coach
 
Lambretta

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Last Week said:
If you're the envy of the comp, why do you have no fans? When the Dogs, Parra, Souths, Tigers, Warriors and Dragons are having a good year, the bandwagon is huge. But none for the Roosters. It's strange.
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In this respect we are the Manchester United of the NRL
Except Manchester United actually have more than three of their own fans....

I don't think the bandwagon is big for the Bulldogs - no neutrals get behind them.
But they do have their own fans who crawl out of their kennels during the good times


In all seriousness, there was a "where do you live" question posted in the Roosters fan forum on Facebook a few weeks back. The supporter base is really, really, spread out. There were as many replies from Northern NSW / SE Queensland as there were from the Eastern Suburbs itself.

The Roosters do appear to have support, it's just such a large portion of it lives nowhere near the ground

But you're right - no neutrals want to back us as we're one of those clubs people just hate
 
Captain Apollo

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Lambretta said:
In this respect we are the Manchester United of the NRL
Except Manchester United actually have more than three of their own fans....

I don't think the bandwagon is big for the Bulldogs - no neutrals get behind them.
But they do have their own fans who crawl out of their kennels during the good times


In all seriousness, there was a "where do you live" question posted in the Roosters fan forum on Facebook a few weeks back. The supporter base is really, really, spread out. There were as many replies from Northern NSW / SE Queensland as there were from the Eastern Suburbs itself.

The Roosters do appear to have support, it's just such a large portion of it lives nowhere near the ground

But you're right - no neutrals want to back us as we're one of those clubs people just hate
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Lambretta, back at the turn of the decade membership used to do regular assessments of where its season ticketholders were from. Analysis revealed the majority of them were from outside the eastern suburbs of Sydney. In this day and age, any club which merely markets itself to one part of Sydney won't last in the long run. Most Sydney NRL clubs are aware of that, it is only the die hard fan that think "districts" are the important part of the club. Even management of teams which we like to poke fun at from time to time, like Souths, know that.
 
Valheru

Valheru

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Lambretta said:
In this respect we are the Manchester United of the NRL
Except Manchester United actually have more than three of their own fans....

I don't think the bandwagon is big for the Bulldogs - no neutrals get behind them.
But they do have their own fans who crawl out of their kennels during the good times


In all seriousness, there was a "where do you live" question posted in the Roosters fan forum on Facebook a few weeks back. The supporter base is really, really, spread out. There were as many replies from Northern NSW / SE Queensland as there were from the Eastern Suburbs itself.

The Roosters do appear to have support, it's just such a large portion of it lives nowhere near the ground

But you're right - no neutrals want to back us as we're one of those clubs people just hate
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The reality is we have a fanbase in line with most other clubs as per our averages over the NRL era. People love to point out that we have less fans than the likes of parra, souths and dragons etc. Which is true but the difference isn't as big as some would have us believe and i am not sure why it is a negative anyways. Unless we start assigning fans to each club then some clubs are going to have less fans than others.
 
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jack coburn

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What were the crowd averages for the top 8 this yr. Would I be right to assume the roosters were the lowest of all.
 
Pommy

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kbw said:
at least the roosters stars are not made up of an over paid busted hack that doesn't put in more than 5 mins in a game and thinks drink driving is ok because he was coming from the "knock out comp" and a halfwit set of English brothers that get paid millions based on dropped ball quotas
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