True, but that is the way we need to look at the cap now.This article about the Roosters... It is so obvious that there is shifty things going on there. The top 7 players take up $5.2M ffs.
‘Have to be tapped’: Roosters face salary cap crisis as big call looms on one of NRL’s brightest stars
Roosters face a $5m crisis... it could cost them one of the NRL’s brightest starswww.foxsports.com.au
So often we see Sheens, McGuire and others encourage fringe graders. Cleary did the same with the Big 17, which became the Big 23! The problem is not just that you have a stack of cap not on the field. You also don't get the best.
Tedesco, Manu, Luke Keary, are clearly some of the best. JWH somehow keeps pumping out as a forward and I have no idea how he does it. End of the day you get Top shelf players playing.
We instead seem to recruit fringe players and the "moneyball" picks. This has lead to poor options in our centers. Yes we have tried going for the Mitchell's and JAC's and we have failed to get them. Overall our cap should be geared like the roosters to getting a few Key top shelf players, they tend to raise the performance level of those around them and the can dominate games.
So many of our picks would not make the Roosters/Melbourne/Brisbane reserve grade.
Angus Crichton would not be a bad pick. Uninjured he is starting each week.