Adam Doueihi #227

[GNR4LIFE]

The poor kids confidence must have had its clock cleaned. That defensive effort on Iongi was one of the worst of the year.

 

[Tucker]

Why do you think the club keeps throwing young players in, potentially before they are ready?

Some will say it’s out of necessity but I think that’s a bit lazy. If you set up your top 30 properly, you shouldn’t have to.
I honestly think we…the Royal we…totally over rate our juniors coming through. Most end up on huge salaries due to showing good promise in a couple of games - take Maka. Over rated to the moon, he stars in a trial game and we throw the keys to him. He then plays like dogshit all year and now we question this decision. Truth is he never received any proper preparation for NRL.
Just because you are physically ready doesn’t mean you are mentally or skillwise ready. We fail that lesson over and over and over again.
Honestly…if we employed some sort of draconian rule like “no NRL until you turn 23”, we’d be better off.

 

[Tucker]

Galvin benefited from being in the NRL to showcase his skills for other clubs. It was Marshall who gave him the freedom to showcase his skills. I am sure Da Silva did not mind playing in the NRL as it also allowed him also to showcase his skills. The club chose not to match the Eels' offer for Da Silva and to develop Haywood instead. That is what is happening now Tucker so continually hitting the club over the head for doing the right thing is wrong. No doubt Da Silva's manager appreciated the club's decision to release him to the Eels.

Galvin showed last night how stunted his development has been.
At one stage he stood up and took the game by the scruff of the neck and lead his side to a good lead, then backed off and lost the game. He doesn’t know how to close out a game still.
Likewise TDS plays well and poorly in the same game regularly.

We don’t do the right thing. We do the easy thing. The right thing would be preparing these boys for the grind and pressure of the NRL. An incremental climb through the grades does more for their development then appeasing their entitled views that they can handle it.

 

[pawsandclaws1]

Galvin showed last night how stunted his development has been.
At one stage he stood up and took the game by the scruff of the neck and lead his side to a good lead, then backed off and lost the game. He doesn’t know how to close out a game still.
Likewise TDS plays well and poorly in the same game regularly.

We don’t do the right thing. We do the easy thing. The right thing would be preparing these boys for the grind and pressure of the NRL. An incremental climb through the grades does more for their development then appeasing their entitled views that they can handle it.

Gould has been reported in the media as saying Galvin is "Not a long-term 7", yet he plays in that position. How you can apportion that loss to WTs has me puzzled. Marshall played him at 6 and allowed him to showcase his talent enough that he reportedly had multiple clubs interested in him. Seems his development was fine then.

Learning to be consistent is part of the development of a NRL player. Young players make mistakes and this again is part of development. Both the Bulldogs and Eels signed both players to reportedly very good contracts aware this was part of their development.

 

[Telltails]

Gould has been reported in the media as saying Galvin is "Not a long-term 7", yet he plays in that position. How you can apportion that loss to WTs has me puzzled. Marshall played him at 6 and allowed him to showcase his talent enough that he reportedly had multiple clubs interested in him. Seems his development was fine then.

Learning to be consistent is part of the development of a NRL player. Young players make mistakes and this again is part of development. Both the Bulldogs and Eels signed both players to reportedly very good contracts aware this was part of their development.

Both slotted into their FG sides - clearly those coaches thought they were ready.

 

[Tucker]

Gould has been reported in the media as saying Galvin is "Not a long-term 7", yet he plays in that position. How you can apportion that loss to WTs has me puzzled. Marshall played him at 6 and allowed him to showcase his talent enough that he reportedly had multiple clubs interested in him. Seems his development was fine then.

Learning to be consistent is part of the development of a NRL player. Young players make mistakes and this again is part of development. Both the Bulldogs and Eels signed both players to reportedly very good contracts aware this was part of their development.

His development was fine with us?
He ran our attack and we got the spoon.

 

[Bones]

His development was fine with us?
He ran our attack and we got the spoon.

He went from Parra outcast to NRL in the space of a few years with us. He has now played more NRL games for the Dogs than he did for us. I don’t know how you could possibly claim our development hurt him in any way, although I do agree with some of your other points.