Wests Recruitment/Retention Failures

BAGNF05

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I feel this needs a thread. A new NRL team is coming in, Their emblem has never graced an NRL field and their recruiting team is beating us to the punch on the best recruits. They signed up Mr Bennett and no doubt they will be a competitive NRL side within 2-3 years. Brooksy cops it on here incessantly, what about our recruiting team who have brought us such masterstrokes as, Packer, Reynolds, Anasta, Ballin, McQueen, Musgrove…the true duds of WT.
 
I wouldn‘t say they have been better than us. Maybe signed a couple good juniors, but no one can judge them on that till they play first grade. When it comes to big name signings, I’d put the two that we have signed ahead of the ones they have signed. Obviously recruitment has been pathetic for years, but with Sheens back, we’ve started to make some inroads.
 
I wouldn‘t say they have been better than us. Maybe signed a couple good juniors, but no one can judge them on that till they play first grade. When it comes to big name signings, I’d put the two that we have signed ahead of the ones they have signed. Obviously recruitment has been pathetic for years, but with Sheens back, we’ve started to make some inroads.
Time will tell, the names they are being associated with and their coach are a pretty fair indication they are already ahead of us in the reputable stakes.

So far,
Bromwich
Bromwich
Kaufusi
Nicholls
Panthers next big thing at half back

I think we’d happily take that.
 
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Time will tell, the names they are being associated with and their coach are a pretty fair indication they are already ahead of us in the reputable stakes.
Given who the coach is, the Dolphins should have made a bigger splash by now.

See what I did there?
 
I feel this needs a thread. A new NRL team is coming in, Their emblem has never graced an NRL field and their recruiting team is beating us to the punch on the best recruits. They signed up Mr Bennett and no doubt they will be a competitive NRL side within 2-3 years. Brooksy cops it on here incessantly, what about our recruiting team who have brought us such masterstrokes as, Packer, Reynolds, Anasta, Ballin, McQueen, Musgrove…the true duds of WT.
Terrible signings.
 
How do you measure a dud signing though? Can you compare Packer and Ballin? One was on almost 750 a year, the other peanuts.
 
I feel this needs a thread. A new NRL team is coming in, Their emblem has never graced an NRL field and their recruiting team is beating us to the punch on the best recruits. They signed up Mr Bennett and no doubt they will be a competitive NRL side within 2-3 years. Brooksy cops it on here incessantly, what about our recruiting team who have brought us such masterstrokes as, Packer, Reynolds, Anasta, Ballin, McQueen, Musgrove…the true duds of WT.
Dolphins have a successful coach but so far their signings haven’t really been crash hot, if they sign a big big name then maybe things will look better for them but they have mostly signed players who are on the back end of their careers
 
Dolphins have a successful coach but so far their signings haven’t really been crash hot, if they sign a big big name then maybe things will look better for them but they have mostly signed players who are on the back end of their careers
Have signed half of storms forward pack mate. Might be past their prime but they’re prepared to go there.
 
Have signed half of storms forward pack mate. Might be past their prime but they’re prepared to go there.
Both Bromwich bros are north of 30. With the exception of Brandon Smith, I think Melbourne would be happy to let them go to get a retirement package. They have a few promising forwards coming through.
 
Have signed half of storms forward pack mate. Might be past their prime but they’re prepared to go there.
Doesn’t mean they’ll make a major impact they’ll provide experience for their juniors and stuff but at this stage their team isn’t really intimidating
 
Both Bromwich bros are north of 30. With the exception of Brandon Smith, I think Melbourne would be happy to let them go to get a retirement package. They have a few promising forwards coming through.
Bennett isn’t dumb. He’s copy and paste a culture. They may not play like 27 year olds but they will prepare well and mentor young fellas.
 
Doesn’t mean they’ll make a major impact they’ll provide experience for their juniors and stuff but at this stage their team isn’t really intimidating
Very surprised if they’re not ahead of us in year 2. We’ve seen the movie before.
 
Very surprised if they’re not ahead of us in year 2. We’ve seen the movie before.
I don’t agree on GNR much but in this case us signing Korisau and Papali’I are much better signings than the entire roster of the Dolphins so far one thing that is true is if a team can sign one major player it attracts other talent we can sign more better players attracting those 2 alone so far only thing Dolphins have is Bennett good coach but roster is poor so far
 
over the last 10 yrs majority of our best recruits have come from Penrith Parra,as for retention we kicked it in the U20s .none of the kids we let go ever shined in a nrl 1st grade side,the players that did well for us over that time mainly come from the juniors we kept
 
I don’t agree on GNR much but in this case us signing Korisau and Papali’I are much better signings than the entire roster of the Dolphins so far one thing that is true is if a team can sign one major player it attracts other talent we can sign more better players attracting those 2 alone so far only thing Dolphins have is Bennett good coach but roster is poor so far
The bromwichs and kaufusi looked ok putting 60 on us last year. Nicholls took his team to a GF. The young HB from Penrith is tipped to be a sensation. Bit rough on those guys.
 
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