Dragons to dominate Wollongong

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crazycat

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I keep hammering on this point. We need our area.

Leichardt/Balmain is going to be overcrowded by a pool of people who can contribute but not make a modern NRL team.

The Dragons, being smart have set up their centre of Excellence in Wollongong.
www.nsw.gov.au

Illawarra kicking goals at Dragons' centre of excellence

The Illawarra is a step closer to a state-of-the-art sporting centre of excellence to house the Dragons and foster a love of sport in children, as the first concept images of the new facility are revealed.
www.nsw.gov.au www.nsw.gov.au
This means they get nice country kids from Picton and surrounding areas on the south coast. They also tap into the Camden/Macarthur areas.

THIS SUCKS.

Penrith dominate a Rugby league area at the foot of the mountains. That pool of Juniors has brought them their current awesome squad.

We should be positioning ourselves the same. Nope lets compete with:
Souths
Easts
Cronulla
Manly
Parramatta
Bulldogs

For everyone in the Sydney basin. It has worked so SO well for us.

Not saying we have to move to Campbelltown. We needed a solid presence there and a way to mine the local Junior talent. We missed Israel Filou, GI and had Ryan P and others come from there. Instead, it's likely the talent around Campbelltown will be going the distance south in the Red and White.
 
The Macarthur region boasts one of the richest pools of rugby league talent in the world. Wests Tigers is fostering young players from Junior League through to the NRL. This pathway progresses through Development Squads, Harold Matthews and SG Ball teams, Under 20s, Ron Massey Cup and Intrust Super Premiership.
Are you saying that this side of the joint venture is under threat?
I need to know more about the Balmain sort of things.
I think it's a business model that I can't quiet get a grip of, however the club itself appears to be healthy. Thoughts?
It's not addressing your points though, where is the solution?
 
crazycat said:
I keep hammering on this point. We need our area.

Leichardt/Balmain is going to be overcrowded by a pool of people who can contribute but not make a modern NRL team.

The Dragons, being smart have set up their centre of Excellence in Wollongong.
www.nsw.gov.au

Illawarra kicking goals at Dragons' centre of excellence

The Illawarra is a step closer to a state-of-the-art sporting centre of excellence to house the Dragons and foster a love of sport in children, as the first concept images of the new facility are revealed.
www.nsw.gov.au www.nsw.gov.au
This means they get nice country kids from Picton and surrounding areas on the south coast. They also tap into the Camden/Macarthur areas.

THIS SUCKS.

Penrith dominate a Rugby league area at the foot of the mountains. That pool of Juniors has brought them their current awesome squad.

We should be positioning ourselves the same. Nope lets compete with:
Souths
Easts
Cronulla
Manly
Parramatta
Bulldogs

For everyone in the Sydney basin. It has worked so SO well for us.

Not saying we have to move to Campbelltown. We needed a solid presence there and a way to mine the local Junior talent. We missed Israel Filou, GI and had Ryan P and others come from there. Instead, it's likely the talent around Campbelltown will be going the distance south in the Red and White.
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i live in Picton mate. our halves pairing that went thru HM undefeated last year played for the Picton Magpies and Thirlmere Roosters. there’s nothing to worry about there, WT have finally gotten their act together in Group 6.
 
crazycat said:
I keep hammering on this point. We need our area.

Leichardt/Balmain is going to be overcrowded by a pool of people who can contribute but not make a modern NRL team.

The Dragons, being smart have set up their centre of Excellence in Wollongong.
www.nsw.gov.au

Illawarra kicking goals at Dragons' centre of excellence

The Illawarra is a step closer to a state-of-the-art sporting centre of excellence to house the Dragons and foster a love of sport in children, as the first concept images of the new facility are revealed.
www.nsw.gov.au www.nsw.gov.au
This means they get nice country kids from Picton and surrounding areas on the south coast. They also tap into the Camden/Macarthur areas.

THIS SUCKS.

Penrith dominate a Rugby league area at the foot of the mountains. That pool of Juniors has brought them their current awesome squad.

We should be positioning ourselves the same. Nope lets compete with:
Souths
Easts
Cronulla
Manly
Parramatta
Bulldogs

For everyone in the Sydney basin. It has worked so SO well for us.

Not saying we have to move to Campbelltown. We needed a solid presence there and a way to mine the local Junior talent. We missed Israel Filou, GI and had Ryan P and others come from there. Instead, it's likely the talent around Campbelltown will be going the distance south in the Red and White.
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the Illawarra area have been raided by the Raiders of late,lol, seems our club is going all out in the Cambo - Mac district,as large as sydney gets it just getting smaller,stake a claim and defend it,let St g know to pz off
 
Cobarcats said:
The Macarthur region boasts one of the richest pools of rugby league talent in the world. Wests Tigers is fostering young players from Junior League through to the NRL. This pathway progresses through Development Squads, Harold Matthews and SG Ball teams, Under 20s, Ron Massey Cup and Intrust Super Premiership.
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Yep. Dragons shmagons, who cares.
All our juniors are ahead of them I think.
As far as developing them, we're 2
years ahead of them with bigger
and better region to pick & chose from.
We're on the up, new COE at UWS
Campbelltown would be massive.
 
Kaito said:
Yep. Dragons shmagons, who cares.
All our juniors are ahead of them I think.
As far as developing them, we're 2
years ahead of them with bigger
and better region to pick & chose from.
We're on the up, new COE at UWS
Campbelltown would be massive.
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Dragons have always seemed broke for the last 15? yrs
 
It’s worth noting that the Balmain junior league is one of the biggest junior leagues and is slowly absorbing the Roosters junior league as they don’t have enough teams. We need to focus on both areas as our areas.

Having the first grade side training at concord with the centre of excellence makes sense as it’s more central. Having junior development centres in MacArthur is also a sensible idea. The club has got the right idea
 
Back in 05 or 06 I remember reading that there were around a dozen clubs within the BTJRL which had well over a hundred teams.
After reading this and what Wests had to offer I thought the merger really had a future especially after winning in 05.
I wonder what it's like now, are there more or less teams? 🤔
Has Western Suburbs juniors increased or decreased in teams since 05.
The reason I'm asking is an increase in numbers would surely indicate a healthy growth in the junior base and the opposite if numbers are decreasing. 🤔 Unless it's a consolidated effort with a better structure. 🤔
 
crazycat said:
I keep hammering on this point. We need our area.

Leichardt/Balmain is going to be overcrowded by a pool of people who can contribute but not make a modern NRL team.

The Dragons, being smart have set up their centre of Excellence in Wollongong.
www.nsw.gov.au

Illawarra kicking goals at Dragons' centre of excellence

The Illawarra is a step closer to a state-of-the-art sporting centre of excellence to house the Dragons and foster a love of sport in children, as the first concept images of the new facility are revealed.
www.nsw.gov.au www.nsw.gov.au
This means they get nice country kids from Picton and surrounding areas on the south coast. They also tap into the Camden/Macarthur areas.

THIS SUCKS.

Penrith dominate a Rugby league area at the foot of the mountains. That pool of Juniors has brought them their current awesome squad.

We should be positioning ourselves the same. Nope lets compete with:
Souths
Easts
Cronulla
Manly
Parramatta
Bulldogs

For everyone in the Sydney basin. It has worked so SO well for us.

Not saying we have to move to Campbelltown. We needed a solid presence there and a way to mine the local Junior talent. We missed Israel Filou, GI and had Ryan P and others come from there. Instead, it's likely the talent around Campbelltown will be going the distance south in the Red and White.
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As I said in another thread ...lets jump into the Qld Cup ride in on Tom Terrifics and Noel Kelly's coat tails and link with Ipswich
 
Chicken_Faced_Killa said:
It’s worth noting that the Balmain junior league is one of the biggest junior leagues and is slowly absorbing the Roosters junior league as they don’t have enough teams. We need to focus on both areas as our areas.

Having the first grade side training at concord with the centre of excellence makes sense as it’s more central. Having junior development centres in MacArthur is also a sensible idea. The club has got the right idea
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Exactly what I was referring to as their business model.
We can only go on by what is reported in the media and we know how accurate that is hey.
Not only do you have to cater for junior development at ground level but you have to have a business to sustain growth and quality....I certainly don't have access to what's in the "in and out trays"
 
happy_tiger said:
As I said in another thread ...lets jump into the Qld Cup ride in on Tom Terrifics and Noel Kelly's coat tails and link with Ipswich
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I'm not joking ...as I said in those comments Ipswich State High School produced 11 players from one side who signed NRL contracts 2 years ago

You have Ipswich Grammar .....St Edmunds .....West Moreton ....St Peters Claver ......Rosewood High .....Bremer High

Just from Ippy Grammar and Ippy High alone you could pick an SOO side from the 80's onwards ....

I don't jest ...we want big ...we have to think big ...ask Melbourne
 
happy_tiger said:
I'm not joking ...as I said in those comments Ipswich State High School produced 11 players from one side who signed NRL contracts 2 years ago

You have Ipswich Grammar .....St Edmunds .....West Moreton ....St Peters Claver ......Rosewood High .....Bremer High

Just from Ippy Grammar and Ippy High alone you could pick an SOO side from the 80's onwards ....

I don't jest ...we want big ...we have to think big ...ask Melbourne
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we mined some gold from schools in the early days,do you know if we are aligned to any at the moment
 
If Balmain JRL are one of the biggest district comps then great work by all....it wasnt too long ago they were one of the smallest, Wests Penrith Parra Souths Canterbury Saints & Sharks wouldve had them covered...Ive been outta the loop for some time
 
innsaneink said:
If Balmain JRL are one of the biggest district comps then great work by all....it wasnt too long ago they were one of the smallest, Wests Penrith Parra Souths Canterbury Saints & Sharks wouldve had them covered...Ive been outta the loop for some time
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shame they all canned the weekly magazines
 
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