Why?
Because we sign up our kids on ridiculous valued contracts and promote them early because the only players we can afford to help them grow and provide support around them are basically NSW cup level players. We can’t afford anyone else.
And now that we have the cash we’ve done so much reputable damage to our brand since 2012 that no one decent wants to consider joining us. That is unless we over pay the cap.
Look at the 2013 / 2014 / 2015 recruits. All the talk at the time was the young gun tigers everyone wanted to see what could only be described as a very similar spine to the Titans of this year, own the top grade. They were put on a pedestal partly because of the external fanfare surrounding the tigers but more importantly because the only senior halves we had recruited to support them was Jordan Rankin, Jack Littlejohn, Josh Drinkwater. Same goes with the forward pack with an aging and deteriorating Keith Galloway having to help develop Woods, Ava, Sue and to a lesser extent Taupau.
When we finally recruit some Senior support for Woods in Matolino he goes and does a dash to a rival club.
If you asked me, the only way the tigers can be competitive is if they stop trying to turn over their roster from players 20-30 and replace the roster from 1-19.
