How we Develop players

[Harvey]

All this talk of us being a development club or Sheens being great at developing.

We have a bunch of young players being talked up.

Matamua has had at least half a dozen games as 18th man and missed KOE games because of it. Players need to play to develop.

Feledy has not seen KOE cup. If you are looking at him as an NRL player next year, he has to finish the season against men.

Flegg forwards being spoken about need to rotate time through KOE bench.

Is 10 minutes off the bench in NRL the best for TDS development at this point?

Seems to be no sense in some of these decisions.

 

[Halbrowne61]

All this talk of us being a development club or Sheens being great at developing.

We have a bunch of young players being talked up.

Matamua has had at least half a dozen games as 18th man and missed KOE games because of it. Players need to play to develop.

Feledy has not seen KOE cup. If you are looking at him as an NRL player next year, he has to finish the season against men.

Flegg forwards being spoken about need to rotate time through KOE bench.

Is 10 minutes off the bench in NRL the best for TDS development at this point?

Seems to be no sense in some of these decisions.

I’m assuming they aren’t as highly rated as many think. Or there may be behind the scenes issues we are not aware of … Matamua seems to have gone from hero to zero. Something must have prompted that. Don’t know about the other kid, he hasn’t really featured at all except for a forum fan club.

 

[The Fresh Oil]

The whole development angle was just devised to take the heat off management and the fact they can’t sign any player of note. They can just keep saying “the next crop of juniors are great” and then it’s a problem for 5 years from now when they either leave or are just barely park footy players.

 

[The Sniffer]

Tumeth and Matamua are duds. NEXT

 

[Tucker]

The whole development angle was just devised to take the heat off management and the fact they can’t sign any player of note. They can just keep saying “the next crop of juniors are great” and then it’s a problem for 5 years from now when they either leave or are just barely park footy players.

At the start of the year Sheens called this crop of juniors coming through “the best he’d ever seen”…show us why you think that Tim.

 

[Tom Shines]

Sheenius cant keep picking Talau … he needs to think about the future and blood someone else… Feledy?

He has got nothing to lose considering the wooden spoon is now secured…

 

[twentyforty]

Realise this is not game thread, but want to make one point, and I don’t mean to be disrespectful to Benji...
Flanagan’s Dragons looked like an NRL footy team compared to us.
Maybe it’s simply because the average ages of the two rosters?

 

[earl]

Matamua seems to have gone from hero to zero

Someone stated at the start of the year that the coaching staff felt he wasn't ready yet. He was killing it at his age level and I think he was fine in first grade apart from stupid mistakes which should be easily coached out of him.

Lot's of kids don't come on.

 

[gregjm87]

Tumeth and Matamua are duds. NEXT

Could Tumeth become a good defensive centre? Tackles well, runs a hard unders line. Has decent hands. Just looks a bit small for the backrow.

 

[tony soprano]

Yeh, I think more of players like

Simpkin
Simpkins
Laurie
Aj

Guys that have had a fair crack at FG. If they go on at other clubs that is telling.

Think it come down to recruitment overall not strong enough let's a lot of players down. That's why the keys should be given to Scott fulton.

 

[Papacito]

Development is a numbers game. You need a lot of young guys coming through the ranks. For the past decade we haven't had enough guys coming through the development program to supply the NRL team.

Most young guys in a development program will never make first grade. Some will play a handful of games. Only a lucky few go on to have long careers. For every James Tedesco you probably have 40 guys who are waking up this morning to lay bricks.

Perhaps a few of the young guys we've seen come through recently are in the handful of games category?

We might have some good players coming through the ranks for the next few seasons, but that's still no guarantee they'll be first grade stars. As a club it's also important for us to make sure these guys aren't thrown on the scrap heap and that they are able to transition into a non footy career.

The only way we can have some sort of success is with a big development program. For mine, the inner west isn't an ideal place to do this.

Although I'm not a fan of how the club has handled the recruitment of Fulton, it does sound like it's a step in the right direction as far as moving our development program way from the inner west.