El_Capitano wrote: ↑February 16, 2019, 3:05 pm
gergreg wrote:El_Capitano wrote:I have been amazed at Penrith’s seemingly bottomless talent pool
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It's a pretty solid development area and has been for a long, long time. I'm more amazed at their ability to stockpile so much quality depth, but I think that is what you were alluding to?
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Yep!
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It's the best RL catchment area in the country. I might be biased, i grew up playing in the area (and getting routinely embarrassed by kids who much better than me, haha) but the it's not a seemingly bottomless talent pool, it is bottomless.
Their depth is simply borne out of that, we sign guys like Lui, Hunt, Abbey, Knight etc to round out our squad... We have to pay a little more, because if those guys were just minimum wage guys, they wouldnt be here, they'd stay close to come and be a minimum wage guy at the bulldogs or tigers etc
So we pay a little on top for those sorts of guys... where as Penrith are just promoting their local kids to minimum wage contracts until they prove it, and these are kids who are better and more talented than the free agents we're bringing in