So once again, for a club supposedly a "development" club all 4 of our junior rep sides got smashed. All of them posted dumb footy. All of them are much slower, less powerful and less skillful than their opponents.
There are very few first grade prospects across all 4 sides. We can't develop players, but if we don't even have rough diamonds in the first place you can't develop trash into treasure.
Anyone whom has had anything to do with our junior recruitment needs to be sacked. Bronson and Gallant, both utterly rubbish for starters.
HBG forcing the juniors to be run on loose change just come to an end. Yes HBG are directly responsible for our embarrassing sides. We need several full time scouts. We need to pay kids and coaches more money.
We need to be realistic and understand very few players make it to first grade when they're smaller than 6 foot. Very very few, and those that do are explosive. Having 2/3 of our Juniors being undersized has a direct correlation with our inability to win. No we don't need giant oafs that can't move, but every single other club can find backs that are 185cm+, can sprint and bust tackles. So it's possible, we're just deliberately targeting players who are one in a million to make it to consistent first graders. And it shows. Enough is enough. Mielekamp has to put his stamp on our Juniors
