earl
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WWOS .The mole saying tigers have 3 or 4 more seasons of pain till till the juniors pay dividends
Who the hell is the mole?
Anyway it seems that 2 key strategies are locking us in to this dynasty of mediocre
1. We build a COE which is not a home ground but a nice gym and practise field and that will make us an attractive destination and as such we recruit lot of big guns
2. We will develop our juniors and when we uncover a few budding stars they will be loyal to Wests Tigers and we have great future roster
Seems to me that the COE won't make a dramatic difference to our roster
Most clubs main method to jump from the bottom to the finals is to recruit some stars .Weve recruited 2 (I hope) .
I can't endure 3 or 4 more seasons of this fiasco
The COE is a red herring. It's useless when it comes to recruiting or actually improving the team. We probably need it but it's basically meaningless. The old statement of 10 kg is 10kg is true.
Point 2 is the key way forward. If we could recruit quality players we would but we can't. I should qualify this statement. We've recruited 2 high quality players that will make a difference to our team and even a significant difference.
We can't though recruit a team full of established players because the only way we recruit established quality players is picking up established quality players who for some reason are underpaid and typically living in Sydney.
We have a 3rd strategy as well. That strategy is don't play the game the same way the other teams are playing it. That is why we are moving Hastings to lock and basically playing 3 halves which clearly means we have a small pack.
We need gun juniors coming through but to be fair to the club I can't remember how long it has been since we blooded juniors of the quality that we have this year. Our problem is the Rorters blood players like Sualli and Walker. I'm feeling more confident though in this approach.