Todd Packer
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Tofeaono.
Fame. Remember his name. He's gonna live forever. A golden nugget buried in KOE.
Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion
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Fame. Remember his name. He's gonna live forever. A golden nugget buried in KOE.
HowDugWT
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On another note. According to Zerotackle Robbie Farah's coaching contract runs out at the end of this year. Does he get resigned?
I know there were talks he would move to a more business side of the club. Anyone know if this is confirmed?
I know there were talks he would move to a more business side of the club. Anyone know if this is confirmed?
Nonotmeagain
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Given that we have the 2nd worst attacking record out of 17 teams he should be moved out.
BlackWhiteGold
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Been following his progress since we signed him out of Keebra Park when he was dubbed the Hermanator for his blockbusting runs!
Missed nearly a whole year of footy with us through injury but has always shown ability as a wrecking ball middle who only needed to develop an engine.
He's really coming on great this season, amazing what consistent footy does (like Jordan Miller) and being promoted to NSW Cup (ahead of Vaka Aho, Tuipoloto etc, even Faagutu though injury played a part there) shows what the club thinks of him.
I reckon Herman, Broederlow, Cayne Nicholas, Bailey Hodges, Zak Clarke and potentially Vaka Aho could be exciting 20/21yo forward prospects for us.
Wish we could get Eddy Munster as well.
His hair style could be the next big trend.
Dennisspicer1
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All these players that continually go to Rorters for less money,
Let's face a fact I've never seen mentioned before.
When Teddy left the Tigers for less, we all knew there was a contract at Tigers for over 1ml a season, but we We're told by Nick they signed him for $650.000 a season, because he wanted to win a premiership, so Teddy was willing to throw away around $400,000 a season, over 5 years $4ml thrown away by him for first contract.
But what about his manager,
Let's say his cut from teddy's contract if only 5% equall's about $20.000 and that's if only 5%.
Meaning manager happy to lose a fair amount of loose change as well.
Why are all these players & managers happy to throw money away.
It's all so hard to accept.
tiger05premier
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The managers who take their players to the rorters would get all the benefits from uncle Nik that their players get
It improves the managers and players golf games considerably
tiger05premier
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And they don't have to pay tax on their winnings
It's a win win win for the player the manager and uncle Nik
Dennisspicer1
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pawsandclaws1
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What has the Melbourne Storm done to expand league in Melbourne since its establishment over 25 years ago? Melbourne will have Australia's largest population by 2030. What has the Sydney Roosters done to expand rugby league in Sydney East, one of Australia's most densely populated areas? Why doesn't the NRL introduce mandatory junior league team numbers ie at least 50 per NRL team for entry and ongoing participation in the NRL? This should not include out of area arrangements. Why haven't significant discounts been included in the salary cap for local juniors who play NRL with the definition of local junior extremely tight so clubs cannot bus in juniors at an early age to get around the rule?
851
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Only the NRL and Roosters supporters believe the players don't get payed outside of the cap
tiger05premier
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It's because uncle Nik runs the NRL
pawsandclaws1
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I worked with a Roosters's supporter and he said to me "we don't have any junior teams in our area". I said to him that is not a case for retention but extinction. You would see imo greater expansion in Perth due to the number rugby supporters, the parochialism of sandgropers plus there are significant number of Australians of South African heritage.
TillLindemann
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I agree to an extent, but there should be a caveat for bush footy clubs outside the geographic footprint of any particular club.
If e.g. the Roosters had to compensate their lack of local juniors with developing juniors in e.g. western NSW that could be a good thing.
pawsandclaws1
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The NRL, NSWRL and QRL should be funding regional football clubs.
Agreed . There’s no trickle down economy in NRL , and as such it just leads to never ending exploitation.
The only way to ever fix this is a draft , with complexities around retention of juniors , trades etc.
the parasitic nature of certain clubs is really frustrating , and the problem with this is , because of their parasitic practices they’re at the pointy end of the table , and as such wield the most power to influence decisions in their favour .
Bush footy , and junior clubs never see anything for developing stars ,especially if the nrl club they’re developed for is us or a weaker club at the time of progression into the top grade .
It’s just take take take . Sure people like Gus Gould will advocate that the roosters do a lot for junior footy and development , which is simply farcical , when you consider they simply wait until other junior areas develop them until they’re 15 then poach away .
The latest atrocity is the Joseph Sualiii debacle .
And that’s not Robinson Crusoe . On an island by itself , that’s happening 10s of times every year across multiple junior bases .
People can say “you can’t force a player to go to X club “ and I say . That’s horseshit . If the players know. What they’re signing up for then that is simply not a factor .
They’re not cattle , and as such open to being exploited as such , but they also don’t adhere to contract law , and are constantly agitating through thier managers .
It’s a 1 way street with most clubs held over the barrel at any given time because they don’t have leverage if they’re outside of that moment in times big 4 .
The draft is simply the only answer , and as such nrl will be a shit show until that day.
Ennis already did that 😂
weststigerman
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Klemmer has had the same or better output than Stefano since he got here and is also more effective in defence. He's on good money next year, but the following year his market value would decrease significantly or he might even retire.
We aren't playing supercoach or fantasy baseball so I'd keep Klemmer for next year and replace him in 2026. I'd also stay away from Melbourne's 900k problem.
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