You can't buy a premiership!!!

[macavity]

Rep teams

Not clubs

 

[adamkungl]

Now Phil, please present to us essay on how they manage to keep that many quality players under the cap.

Promote from successful junior development systems and pay big money for key positions.

Don't pay premium money for players to sit in reserves.

Don't pay premium money for players to play at other clubs.

Don't pay overs for anyone except top 5 in the game players.

Pay unders for talented discards from other clubs.

Be attractive to recruits by having the best facilities, development, coaches, connections, opportunities, perks.

 

[macavity]

Promote from successful junior development systems and pay big money for key positions.

Don't pay premium money for players to sit in reserves.

Don't pay premium money for players to play at other clubs.

Don't pay overs for anyone except top 5 in the game players.

Pay unders for talented discards from other clubs.

Be attractive to recruits by having the best facilities, development, coaches, connections, opportunities, perks.

*brown paper perks

 

[adamkungl]

Rep teams

Not clubs

I reckon professional rep teams do a bit more quality development than Billy's dad's mate coaching the under 14s. But god if we had Penrith or Newcastle sized districts we'd be untouchable.

Fact, Roosters do twice the junior rep development of other Sydney clubs.
Not our fault that somehow other clubs can't find success with the advantage of 10x the number of juniors sitting in their lap.

 

[adamkungl]

*brown paper perks

Life must be a piece of piss when you're safe in the knowledge that everyone more successful than you cheated their way there so it doesn't count.

 

[Cockadoodledoo]

We don’t pay other clubs rejects 500K to a million a year and then have them spend the offseason on weekend long benders.

 

[Cockadoodledoo]

I reckon professional rep teams do a bit more quality development than Billy's dad's mate coaching the under 14s. But god if we had Penrith or Newcastle sized districts we'd be untouchable.

Fact, Roosters do twice the junior rep development of other Sydney clubs.
Not our fault that somehow other clubs can't find success with the advantage of 10x the number of juniors sitting in their lap.

Spot on. Whilst some were laughing about Nathan Brown’s remark about Wayne Bennett last year, it was the sort of comment you might expect from a punter at the pub. Not a head coach.

It spoke volumes for me that Brown was the sort of guy who wanted to be one of the boys and couldn’t carry himself as a professional leader. No wonder his senior players carry on like prize pork chops off the field.

How long before Ponga gets homesick and wants to go to the Broncos.

 

[Zadar]

Tedesco
Keary
Mitchell
All million $ players.

Cordner
Cronk
$700k

JWH
Friend
Morris
$500k

The remaining $4 mill is going a long way lol

Thanks for the quotes, but these are the type of figures that get other clubs in trouble not the roosters, yep they let fergo go to parra for 500k and traded down to Morris for the same money.

Clown.

 

[Perth Red]

Pokie machine takings are paying forw juniors, not nrl clubs lol.

 

[Pedge1971]

Cronk was bought for one single reason, to do what Pearce couldn’t, win a premiership. It was said one million times.

The premiership was bought, this thread has zero credibility.

Erm except Pearce did win a premiership admittedly with Money Bill back.

 

[Pedge1971]

You could include Tedesco in that too.

Even in the 70's, premierships were being bought. Manly did it, and Easts did it. The salary cap was supposed to stop that happening though. For all the effect it has in evening out the competition, they might as well scrap it. All it does is stop the poor clubs going broke trying to compete with the rich clubs.

Manly did it. Easts tried to in the 80s but were fickkng terrible at it. Has taken Uncle Nick nearly 40 years bit he seems to have gotten it right finally.

 

[anjado]

Now Phil, please present to us essay on how they manage to keep that many quality players under the cap.

Phil Gould said when Melbourne was caught cheating the salary cap that the punishment was too severe because all clubs basically fiddle with the books and cheat the salary cap. I always wondered which club or clubs Gould was referring to when he made that statement.

Maybe they should have investigated the club he worked with for the previous decade.

 

[Pedge1971]

Are you saying the roosters don't put money in to their junior league?

What junior league? And not I would say they put more into talent scouts than their junior league. But it works, no?

Just dont talk up the Roosters as a club that promotes local talent cause it is BS.

 

[TheFrog]

Deliberately missed the point, as Gus usually does.

If being a "development club" is the path to untold player riches, why is it that the development club that Gould is General Manager of, has released 3 quality players this year without signing comparable replacements?

 

[macavity]

If being a "development club" is the path to untold player riches, why is it that the development club that Gould is General Manager of, has released 3 quality players this year without signing comparable replacements?

No - being a "development club" is a path to mediocrity. Being a "skim the cream" club is where it's at.

 

[Pedge1971]

No - being a "development club" is a path to mediocrity. Being a "skim the cream" club is where it's at.

Yup. But you need lots of cabbage and lots of brown bags to be one kf those...

 

[MilkShark]

Erm except Pearce did win a premiership admittedly with Money Bill back.

Sure he did, and then failed every year after.

So they splashed out and had both origin halves on their books.

 

[MilkShark]

Phil Gould said when Melbourne was caught cheating the salary cap that the punishment was too severe because all clubs basically fiddle with the books and cheat the salary cap. I always wondered which club or clubs Gould was referring to when he made that statement.

Maybe they should have investigated the club he worked with for the previous decade.

He doesn’t want to burn bridges in case he needs a job back there again.

 

[JohnStoppafarty]

WCC challenge

Is that like an ATM machine?

 

[JohnStoppafarty]

Some of you blokes never learn. It's round 6 FFS. Wait until mid July before going off 5/8ths cocked.