That’s not gonna happen. It’ll be like this.
Trent & Dean this year, Tino as well. Brandon wasn’t that good coming out of school and they’ve only signed basket cases or project pieces that were nowhere near debuting. They don’t sign very many quality kids out of school so they don’t but when they have, they’re not very patient. Like some of the youngsters they got on their books at the moment aren’t even good enough to play reserve grade, and they aren’t playing reserve grade.
I agree with Christian Welch that it is not that players are worse players at other clubs it is just they go to different systems that are not as effective. Its also why when they bring in players from other clubs and improve them substantially.That's our big problem our attacking and defensive systems need a lot of work . However, we also have player issues too.
Do we have enough players to promote from within? Josh James, Tass, Willison, Jotham Russell, Logan Bayliss Brow, Ezra Mam, Xavier Va'a and Blake Mozer all being moved into the top 3 would be a disaster
Smith was also playing schoolboys for qld.
Exactly! your just proving my point that you can't compare us with them when they have such limited players out of school. I swear you choose to only read what you want. The point is that they're players are obviously playing more reserve grade if they are being picked up at the age of 22,22,23, what the **** else would they be doing? Also your Tino point is invalid he debuted at 19 that's no earlier than most of our players, Payne, Coates, Dearden and Niu are the only ones to debut at 18 and all of them were in a small capacity (e.g. less than 5 games). We get some of the best players out of school and we are expected to stash out 400-500k before debuting to keep them and admittedly there not ready, its so stupid. You can't develop players slowly or they leave for a larger deal elsewhere and then we get slammed for the players we lose, and as a result our recruitment and retention habits changing because of it and we become a basket case like we are now. I personally don't think you can compare our club with any other in the competition because there is nowhere near as much hype, scrutiny and advertisement over the players we have and their 'ability'. It's unrivalled. What comes with these puff pieces? Arrogant teenagers who shouldn't be playing first grade for a number of years, admittedly. But if we want to keep them, than they must play. Its disappointing but its play them or lose them, thats the reality.
Josh James will get the boot, Tass, Willison and bayliss Brow might get upgrades but ezra, va'a, mozer, packer and Mariner will be fighting for development contracts. Is it a 4 player restriction on development players or can you go crazy with them
I'm sorry but that will likely not be the case for Finucane. Fair enough if you said hynes or someone like that but Finucane isn't the sort of player that relies on their system. He is very, very good player that doesn't rely on craig bellamy to succeed.
Exactly. I don't know why people are going on about recruiting from school as if it's the only development that matters. Storm take players and develop them into what they need no matter what's the age. Fitzy seems think its only players coming out of school that matter for some odd reason.
