if you dont/cant find them in house... yeah, at some point you have to do what the dogs did with Burton or the Knights with Ponga and pay major overs on a kid who might change the fortunes.Billy Walker wrote: ↑April 2, 2022, 8:33 pmSo you have to take a punt and offer a kid massive overs like the Knights did when Ponga was a skinny winger with a good step at the cowboys. I would have been tempted to throw the bank at Sam Walker after a few games last year. It’s a risky play but I can’t see the alternative - we aren’t recruiting an established star to the club so I say throw massive overs for a kid and hope the hype is trueBotman wrote: ↑April 2, 2022, 8:07 pm You also dont find a lot of 1m players like DCE on the market.
So that's a fairly disingenuous post... regardless of whether those contracts are good, bad or or indifferent, they've not cost us a DCE level player. That level of player was simply not available to us, or anyone on an open market.
Except in very rare circumstances those players are developed from within, they're not found on the open market because they rarely reach the open market as the club holding their contract will do what it takes financially to keep them.
The issue with our lack of a 1m DCE level player has nothing to do with anyone on this roster, it's simply down to our lack of ability to identify, recruit and develop an elite talent at that position.
But then it's not got the knights anywhere, Ponga is a disgrace half the time, and i cant say im seeing a lot of good signs for Burton on early returns. The reverse is the Cowboys and JT. Game changer. Team building isnt easy.
They say in the NFL that when you dont have a QB the search for one is all consuming, because it doesnt matter how good you are on the margins, without it, you're cooked. That's not too dissimilar to the NRL and spine play... the best teams are ALWAYS the teams who have the talent in the spine.
We have a very untalented spine right now imo