LOL it's about who you buy... Yeah you won't win signing useless hacks and overrated nuffies to million dollar contracts.hi everybody!
i've been thinking. the knights are now 1-4, despite an easy draw and lotsa home games. which is really surprising, considering how most people were picking them to be premiership contenders. but once i thought about it, the piss poor start to the season by the Newcastle Knights is not that surprising.
why?
Because you cannot buy a premiership!!
I looked at the Knights lineup for last night's game. 11 of the starting 13 were bought from other clubs. and many of them (ramien, hunt, lee, lino, gavet, glasby, klemmer) are in their first season in newcastle. this is textbook trying to buy a premiership. and its the cause of the knights' failings. you need to build a strong culture if you are to win a premiership, and you cannot achieve that if you have lots of players new to the club. they are not familar with the newcastle culture, so they are doomed to fail.
i compare it to a successful development club like the Roosters, who won the premiership last year. Toops debuted at the club in 2012. Lats and Manu are other Roosterites who have come through our lower grades, as has Friendy, Maubs, Cordner, Radley, Liu, Napa and Matto. Taukeiaho and JWH came to the club with less than 10 appearances for their former club. whats the result of all this development? a team of players who live and breathe the Roosters Culture.
Thats why development clubs like the Roosters will win premierships, whilst clubs that try to buy premierships will fail.
Thank you for reading
i agree. successful clubs like the Roosters develop a core through their lower grades
Yeah they should just keep the players that keep winning spoons.
Except for the fact you bought Tedasco, Cronk and Keary who would be amongst most of roosters winning percentage.
but if they had good development pathways then the spoon winners would be replaced by talented youngsters coming into first grade
Offering to pay a salary to a free agent is not buying anyone
Rugby League teams do not "buy" players
Football teams such as Manchester United and Barcelona "buy" players
It doesn't happen in our game
To be in contention first you need to make the finals, which myself and everyone thought would happen with that list.
Luckily three QLD teams & Canterbury are complete shit and the only thing keeping them from being ~15th after 5 rounds.
Nathan Brown has done f**k all while the recruiters have done everything they've been asked - I don't have much of an issue with signing a majority of outsiders, a good coach turns a team of good players into a good team.
Too much the other way and you're the Panthers, crowing about how great your reserve grade teams are while your first grade team is middling at best.
They've bought 1 superstar (Klemmer), 2 solid first graders (Glasby and Moga), a few fringe first graders (Lee, Hunt, Lino, Buhrer, Mann), a rookie (Ramien) and a few past their prime players (Guerra, Pearce, SKD, Buhrer again).
Yeah they've bought extensively - but you're expecting a miracle out of that lot? They are probably hoping for 8th place at best.
Buy at least 3 out of the 4 spine players who are at a decent quality level and its fair to say you've bought whatever success you get.
Roosters don't buy players. They merely hire them for short periods and then find suitably retirement accomodation at other clubs