jirskyr
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@harvey said in [Pangai Junior](/post/1403283) said:@earl said in [Pangai Junior](/post/1403274) said:@cochise said in [Pangai Junior](/post/1403135) said:@harvey said in [Pangai Junior](/post/1403095) said:Good to see we have rejected Pangai. Just like we rejected Mitchell & JAC when they would not roll over and agree to what the tigers had offered.
It is the fish that wests reject that make them the (12th to 16th) best.
We are a basket case, our signing will again consist of who other clubs need to get rid of after signing the top available talent.
TPJ is too inconsistent to break the bank on.
I get Harvey's post but the reality is we have to operate like a professional business. We can't keep making the same mistakes with our salary cap. We also can't be used as a bargaining chip for managers.
It looks like the way things are at the moment managers get our best offer and then use that to get their player signed on a bit extra at another club. We gotta keep going for quality players. It costs us nothing. It costs other clubs money though.
The problem is when the youngsters we bring through show ability, other clubs start chasing and these blokes have not played finals football or made rep teams and see a squad full of fringe first graders and youngsters that are a few years off contending, they will move on. We then replace them with more youngsters, fringe first graders and players at the end of their careers. Rinse and repeat the cycle will continue.
We have seen it before. There are no transfer fees in the NRL, so being a development and feeder club for heavyweights is not a business model that works.
We need to get a couple of big name stars in that can carry and bring out the best of the youngsters around them.
I don't really think that is true.
How many Tigers juniors, that we wanted to keep, have been poached by other sides? Tedesco is the only one I can think of, and he's unique because he's one of the best players going around, and Tigers were in a particularly bad way when he left.
On the other hand in just 12 months we signed Blore and Laurie from Penrith, that's two of their top juniors. And that's only because the FG side was going so well, they couldn't force their way in.