Common sense prevailed paying a prop way overs when we can pick up an above average or develop one of our own for a third less. I am hearing that Luai is done so at least we are trending in the right direction. If we can add a back or two at least we will be more competitive than previous years.
Great post. I enjoy your updates regarding our juniors and please continue to share it if you are inclined.
Until the season was effectively over two thirds through, our forwards were doing a fine job. Our yardage and field position was fine.
Managed to lure the NSW origin hooker here with money, be a change agent, be a leader, be the main man...so it can work
I hope your source is on the money @ROZELLE.O.G & the Bulldogs board member's son that @Tiger_Yoshi knows was pulling a swifty!.
Gus put Matt Cameron in-charge of creating the penrith system.
So who’s going to withdraw their offer from Luai first? 🤔
Us id imagine. But im not too fussed if we dont get him. He doesnt have the kicking game for a organising halfback.
I know, but to some extent right. He still identified that Matt Cameron was the man for that job. Whom mind you is their CEO now after originally being brought in as a high performance manager.
What we get with Luai given the attraction for Benji & Richo is his aura amongst team mates; winning attitude; energy; leadership & family focused lifestyle. Ideal recruit and leader for the young squad we have to show the way at training, talk on-the-field and mentor the likes of Fainu, Galvin, Bud, Mason, Large etc. Secondly, his marketability for the club is MASSIVE. He gets a bad wrap at times but he is the ultimate professional & family man. With Api, Luai & Klemmer leading way, it's a game-changer!
One rep player, one briefly amazing but chronically injured guy and half a dozen fringe to ok first graders... in a decade? That's what you consider a club that is perpetually building for the future, is it? The Roosters, hardly renowned as a junior development club, have more of their own junior talent in their squad today.
I took it more that the dogs don't have the production line penrith have and will struggle replicating penriths success.
I've looked up Sheens's first interview after becoming coach - I assume you mean this one: https://www.2gb.com/podcast/tim-sheens-confident-of-future-success-for-wests-tigers/. He talks with enthusiasm about the juniors coming through, noting that they are 1-3 years out. At no stage does he say the club is sacrificing the present for future success. How would that even work? The club is, and has been, investing in pathways: this is a good thing and it should produce success in the long term. They also just signed a bunch of first graders a year ago. Juniors aren't using salary cap and there's nothing to stop a club having a good first grade side and good juniors - these things aren't mutually exclusive and in fact I'm not sure how it would be possible to make them so.
No, we're arguing about the merits of getting a player of Luai's quality on $1.2m a year. If Luai was willing to sign for the Tigers for minimum salary I doubt there would be a single person who wouldn't want him. Ditto on $600,000 a year, quite possibly even on $800,000 a year.
