I guess the counter to this in the Broncos case... If we have 6million dollars advantage over other clubs through TPAs(according to Gus Gould and other band wagon media) why the **** did we not have Smith playing hooker, and Cronk at half with Thurston 5/8. You think those three would not be here with an additional 2million per year on the salarys. I know there feelings were hurt because they were overlooked as unproven teenagers, but wouldn't a couple of million a season help ease the pain. Why have we had bog average players like Hoffman Copely Moga Reed Steve Michaels and David Stagg FFS stinking up our centres. Why have we had a mediocre forward pack for a decade when we could have bought the Australian pack with brown bag payments. Why have we had a hooker that has taken 200 games to finally look like a top level NRL hooker. Seriously what evidence supports the claims of our TPA bankroll. All bar three maybe four of our starting team last night are developed by us and debuted with the Broncos. The others apart from Milford are outcasts - Blair was crap at Tigers and they payed for someone to take him, Roberts was unwanted because too much trouble, and ffs Moga. This pattern has been ongoing since the Broncos last premiership. The evidence just doesn't match the outrage, and all the tin foil hats can come up with is the Broncos are shit because they should win every year with this unprecedented advantage over every other team. Why did the Broncos suffer the Henjak and Griffin period when we could have easily bought Bellamy or Hasler, or whatever other coach was seen as the best in the NRL. It doesn't make sense, and nor does this crazy outburst over Jack Bird. It does my fucking head.
Good counter argument.
But a few things, even without bennett you guys made a prelim with Griffin, in 2011, you came 3rd on 40 competition points and won 2 finals matches being downed by the premiers, in fact his first year wasnt that far off waynes first year, it was just a different finals setup.
I think your TPA advantage of 6m is not 6 clear on top, I am sure the bottom teams could muster a mill or 2 or 3. Obviously though those numbers are just my estimates and unless the NRL publishes TPAs you, me no one will know the total amounts.
SO the actual advantage you have is far far less then 6m. Thus you are not in a position to buy ALL of the best players, you still have to make good choices, look at the brooklyn nets, they ran a salary cap through the roof and got a pretty good team but certainly not contenders or what they paid for.
Someone told me blair was better then Boyd and Paulo, and blair would have only his final year of his tigers contract being 2015 paid by the tigers if any, certainly not 16 and 17. Obviously I like boyd and paulo a lot more then blair, blair is ok a good hard defender, but imo he is not as hard hitting as nigel plum and you are right probably not on big money, again despite the moron who thought everyones value is determined by rep selections.
For the record, I am not outraged, I just pointed out Brisbanes TPA advantage.
As for why the broncos didnt pick up a better coach, well I read on here its because you guys treated bellamy like shit. In any event TPAs dont really impact coach signings as staff payments arent under the cap or tpas.
As for your average players, all clubs make mistakes and keep wrongs ones sometimes and let good ones go, see nikorimas brothers and milford. Though, I think you are being harsh on hoffman he was very good for you guys when he was there and jack reed was the best defensive centre in the game imo. I would have taken him at canberra whilst he was playing no hesitation as I am sure most other clubs would.
With Roberts, I thought I read GC wanted to resign him and other clubs were also trying to sign him. But by that point canberra had better centres imo so I was fine, and also he has a face someone needs to punch.
When bellamy retires from the broncos, you guys, imo will still have a tpa advantage and if you use it ok, you will go ok.
