crazycat
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We definately have now.We were once one of the glamour clubs of the nrl circa 2005 around November to 2012 around the same time .
Whilst I tend to agree with you , at the very least the nrl has a vested interest to have the best players playing for the best teams , that doesn’t mean what is true today will be tomorrow .
Penrith during the same period and well into the teens were hardly a “destination” club.
Parramatta were the basket case of the nrl , despite a brief moment in the sun for Jarryd Hayne , and manly were the club built around local boys doing local things for thier local club .
South’s were still the ugly step child of the nrl , although Rusty had just come aboard , but everyone thought he was a lunatic to give up the pokies revenue .
And Gold Coast were thought to have a team that if the ball bounced the right way could push for a premiership .
Nearly none of that is remotely true 12 years later .
The nrl will shift its allegiances to whoever is the shiniest toy. We dropped the ball in the early teens , and have never recovered . It’s even more heinous when you realise we definitely had the cattle in place to have a succession plan .
I will cop that Madge did not always have the Cattle he wanted.
Sheens/Benji did not get everything, but they got a chunk of cattle they wanted.