@tyga said in [Signing Suggestions & Rumours](/post/1317505) said:
The new rules have widened the gap between the top teams and the battlers. Our roster is better but we are no hope of bearing Storm, Raiders, Roosters, Rabbits Panthers, Eels, Knights unless they play poorly. Basically at best we are battling Sharks, Titans, Eagles, Warriors, Dragons for 8th spot.
Only players off contract that would make a difference to this would be Jaydn Sua, Dale Finucane, Brandon Smith, Xavier Coates.
There are no halves available and there is a scarcity as it is in the NRL. We are way off and it will take years to correct our young players have to be our stars.
The new rules are great but with the most lopsided competition in years the NRL should do away with the salary cap it’s not working at all.
Nothing lasts forever man . Look at the Raiders , they were basically us before we became the 9th placed team . They’d always finish 8th-9th , and do nothing . Basically in football purgatory , which is where we are now . None of the players they signed to get themselves out would have been stars at the time , and that was just after a period of losing the stars they did groom. Sound familiar ? I think the talent is in the squad . It’s just now a waiting game if they can take the next leap . Nobody saw Jack Wighton as anything other than a very good centre , borderline origin . And look at what he has done for himself . George Williams was likened to that Parra eels “star” pommy signing a few years ago in the halves . Even the batemans and Whiteheads of the world weren’t world beaters before the put on the Canberra milk jersey .
The panthers have built themselves into the force they are as well . A few years ago everyone was mocking the 5 year plan . The roosters ,storm and rabbits , have a second salary cap man , there’s nothing we can do . That’s not going to change if you scrap the salary cap . It’s no difference to the LA dodgers , NY Yankees and Boston Red Sox . But the Red Sox arnt good anymore . The dodgers only just won a World Series after years of wasted money , and the Yankees despite all the money they spend haven’t done anything for years . The smart teams ride the wave , they build to a peak hopefully that being a premiership , and then knowingly let the wave head towards the trough , hoping that it’s just a small one .
I think this is the way forward. We are just all impatient as we don’t know where on the wave we are . Are we near the peak , near the trough etc. The only thing I can confidently say is we are definitely on the upward trajectory. But I get it , that’s not comforting at all , as we want to win now.
