You can't buy a premiership!!!

[Babyface O'reilly]

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 did say all clubs

 

[TheFrog]

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

The only reasons he'd need to work for any club is if Nine sacked him, or because he's a workaholic.

 

[Valheru]

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.

I simply posed a question to the relevant poster asking if he thinks we don't put money in to juniors.

It still remains unanswered.

 

[mozza91]

Shame you can’t buy a decent fan base.

 

[Zadar]

Shame you can’t buy a decent fan base.

Looks like they did buy a decent fan base, Roosters have the 4th highest average home crowd overall this year and the 2nd most for a Sydney club.

 

[TheFrog]

Looks like they did buy a decent fan base, Roosters have the 4th highest average home crowd overall this year and the 2nd most for a Sydney club.

You've only had 2 home games. One of them didn't crack 10,000. I look forward to the crowing after the captive audience Anzac Day game.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Has anyone successfully bought a legitimate wooden spoon?

Cap rorters aside (what I mean by legitimate) and haven't just had a bunch of complete plodders that made everyone scratch their heads (Lee, ramien, pongs, Watson, klemmer isn't a bad looking list). I can't remember a side in recent teams in this position. We were in a similar position last year but had the majority of the same roster for some time now

 

[Zadar]

You've only had 2 home games. One of them didn't crack 10,000. I look forward to the crowing after the captive audience Anzac Day game.

You can only go by current stats, anything else is speculation and innuendo.

 

[Valheru]

You can only go by current stats, anything else is speculation and innuendo.

Oh didn't you know?

We aren't allowed to count ANZAC day, our home opener, Adelaide or CC.

 

[Zadar]

Oh didn't you know?

We aren't allowed to count ANZAC day, our home opener, Adelaide or CC.

It is fun to entertain the simple minded and jealous supporters of shit teams.

 

[Sonny83]

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

He could come up with an essay of how many quality players got released over the years instead.

 

[dangerousdave]

Oh didn't you know?

We aren't allowed to count ANZAC day, our home opener, Adelaide or CC.

Of course you can count them in your average.

The argument is that the average is not necessarily reflective of the size of the fan base.

 

[MilkShark]

He could come up with an essay of how many quality players got released over the years instead.

“Quality” players.

Go through the list like I did, some of them I’ve never heard of, some of them spent less than a season in their system yet still are classified as “roosters juniors”.

 

[TheDalek079]

Another season has just concluded. the Roosters who develop their players from within have won back to back premierships, whilst the Knights missed the eight again after their big recruitment drive for this season. I guess the 2019 season just reinforces my point that YOU CAN'T BUY A PREMIERSHIP

 

[Generalzod]

But the Roosters can...

 

[Adam-Albert Casty]

Yet again the peoples team triumphs when bad refereeing, injury and other adversity such as having to travel to Homebush to play.

Left to defend Sydneys honour after all other teams gave up the mighty roosters showed that the battler can win against all odds.

Your're welcome Sydney.....

 

[Perth Red]

Simples, go out and buy the best 1,6&7 brown paper bags can buy and you've got it covered. RL is a simple game.

 

[Sonny83]

Simples, go out and buy the best 1,6&7 brown paper bags can buy and you've got it covered. RL is a simple game.

were they the best at the time of purchase?

7 - agreed
6 - probably 5th best
1 - ~3rd/4th choice to be picked as Aus fullback

 

[Headless Chook]

Some clubs recruitment policies reminds me of those rabid lunatics bashing down the doors at Myer for the Boxing Day sales to spend, spend, spend.

“I’ll buy one of those Dugans, gimme a Shaun Johnson and a Moylan. And throw in Aaron Woods too for good measure. And be quick about it, can’t be missing out”.

6 months later the harsh reality sets in.