I think that can be attributed back to the Toyota cup which seemingly ended up surpassing the reserve grade comp and created a lot of exposure for the under 20's players, who now feel entitled to a first grade position.
The thing that annoys me is they just signed Radley (I think) for like 5 years, which is absurd for a young player with less than what 15 games.
They also recently re-signed Cordner who would have attracted big money offers without a peep from anybody.
On Radley, he won't even be starting in the foreseeable future with the rorters backrow stacked the way it is. Maybe their plan is to piss off Friend and start Radley at hooker (which is clearly not his best position)? That would just exemplify the way that the rorters chuck players on the scrapheap... like how do other players not see what they have done to blokes like Jnik and stay the hell away from them? On the other side of the coin, how can blokes not see the way we look after players after they retire or after they've suffered serious injury(ies) and not take that into consideration? Either the cash is too good to refuse at the rorters (one way or the other if you take my meaning) or they only see the dollar figures over the X amount of years that their contract runs for.
Agreed, however we seem to receive the most meltdowns per capita from players wanting to play different positions or start before they're ready. Some of them need to examine Wayne's track record when it comes to extracting the absolute most out of his young talent and bide their time. If they aren't students of history then they only need to look at Offa and TPJ.
Not to mention the club’s favorite son - Mitchell ‘I-love-doggies’ Pearce.
because he is a very talented player ... that's why
Very simple minded recruitment tactics
yeah it boggles the mind wondering why they would try to recruit talented players
Boggles the mind as to where he will play. Roberts and Kahu centres, TPJ or Moose at lock. Are we going to be stuck with a glorified centre in the halves?
he would still be better than the current halfback we have ...
Maybe - even though he was injured, he was garbage. I think he's a centre or nothing, and we didn't exactly need a new centre. The money could have/should have gone to some other talented player.
Yeah this is the thing, those of us that really didn't see the need for him in the first place have never doubted his talent or suggested he isn't a really good player, he just really isn't what this team needed. The money could definitely have been better spent elsewhere.
we were trying to sign a halfback, Ash Taylor, at the same time .... but even if we didn't chase Bird, we never would have increased the offer to him ... so clearly Bird didn't stop us from signing a halfback, just ridiculous offers from the Dragons and Titans did
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