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Broncos have registered interest in Ben Hunt. There’s a thought over there now with Willison on three years, that Payne Haas might become available. Reece Walsh highest paid bronco at $1.25 million a season
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Noitall
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Hayze Perham to broncos
That is genuinely a terrible idea.
How do the tigers continually fuck up the players they sign and/or let go. Imagine if they kept their juniors they had let go over the last decade or so. How much of their cap will be tied up in players not playing for them or in overs for players they paid too much for
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Apparently going to pay some for Bateman to leave also. They’ve lost some great players over the years that came through their system. Bit of talk they in negotiations with NAS
I would fucking love it if they lost Pezet and Paps. All of a sudden the cupboards in Melbourne are looking a little thin...
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I reckon they will. Pezet has too much interest to sit behind Hughes and Munster forever. Has already pitched playing somewhere on loan for a season until his space opens but sounds like it hasn’t been received favourably. They asking Papenhuyzen to take a pay decrease of a couple of hundred thousand a season or there abouts, and can imagine other teams will give him what he was on. Most notably bulldogs and perhaps eels? Storm like a tigers forward, apparently will go for Fonua Pole for 2026. He has a brother in the storm system, 21, 6 foot 6 and 120+kg
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All gets a bit soulless when teams don't have a least a base of genuine local juniors they've developed themselves.
Then you're just supporting the branding on your laundry.
But devils advocate, every club gets a shot at the next Nathan Cleary with a draft.
Of course counterpoint to that is he wouldn't be "Nathan Cleary" if he was picked up by a lot of these rubbish development clubs.
From my perspective it depends on the details.
Done properly it could be great.
Plenty of examples in other sports that seem to work well
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The NRL are probably looking at the American systems and thinking that would make nice television and a bit more ratings.
If all of the clubs, players, the players association got onboard it could work.
For clubs like the Warriors you could be strategic and get players in positions we struggle to recruit or develop stars. The halves would be a good example. Although at the moment we have Boyd, Metcalf, Hanson, Cleary as Australians on our books. Two of those are more the younger development side of things.
The three different premiers in 8 years is thrown off with Penrith currently on 4 in a row. Winning two in a row hadn't happened for a long time until the Roosters did it a few years ago. So, the stat is skewed a bit.
It is a rookie draft. I'd prefer the current system. Especially if we go down the development path seriously. We may get some good players under a draft but we would also be at risk of losing the following for example if it was in place Leiataua, Laban, Vaimauga (Sifakula), Halasima, Zyon Maiu’u. They may not end up being superstars but there is enough talent there for us to build a side from and recruit positions we need.
The national under 21s would be more beneficial when you look at the brief. How young players come into the NRL. If it ran the same time frame as the old under 21s it would get pretty expensive having an NRL side, NRLW, Under 21s followed by a NSW Cup or Queensland Cup side.
If all of the clubs, players, the players association got onboard it could work.
For clubs like the Warriors you could be strategic and get players in positions we struggle to recruit or develop stars. The halves would be a good example. Although at the moment we have Boyd, Metcalf, Hanson, Cleary as Australians on our books. Two of those are more the younger development side of things.
The three different premiers in 8 years is thrown off with Penrith currently on 4 in a row. Winning two in a row hadn't happened for a long time until the Roosters did it a few years ago. So, the stat is skewed a bit.
It is a rookie draft. I'd prefer the current system. Especially if we go down the development path seriously. We may get some good players under a draft but we would also be at risk of losing the following for example if it was in place Leiataua, Laban, Vaimauga (Sifakula), Halasima, Zyon Maiu’u. They may not end up being superstars but there is enough talent there for us to build a side from and recruit positions we need.
The national under 21s would be more beneficial when you look at the brief. How young players come into the NRL. If it ran the same time frame as the old under 21s it would get pretty expensive having an NRL side, NRLW, Under 21s followed by a NSW Cup or Queensland Cup side.
I have 0 faith in it being implemented properly. Also, do you really think rookies are going to want to go play (and live) in PnG? No hate on the place but it's not exactly a first world country.
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From my perspective it depends on the details.
Done properly it could be great.
Plenty of examples in other sports that seem to work well
Yeah I can't deny commercially and competitively it works great in Amercian sports.
But call me old fashioned, I do enjoy teams still having a genuine local flavour over a bunch of guys who just happen to be wearing the same geographic branding through the luck of a draft.
At what age do they enter the draft? or is it any club interested in a player that hasn't played NRL yet has to enter the draft?
what happens to the 17-18yo who isn't physically ready and the club is developing him through the grades and another club shows interest in them?
Who invests in grass roots development if there is a draft? Why would a club do that if their best talent gets dispersed across the competition?
I don't think the current system is broken. the only clubs that would benefit are ones without junior nurseries and they are doing ok as it is now.
what happens to the 17-18yo who isn't physically ready and the club is developing him through the grades and another club shows interest in them?
Who invests in grass roots development if there is a draft? Why would a club do that if their best talent gets dispersed across the competition?
I don't think the current system is broken. the only clubs that would benefit are ones without junior nurseries and they are doing ok as it is now.
Any idea is shit if poorly implemented.
TBH I think NRL needs to copy NFL and develop a college program. Its probably the only way a draft works
The basis has been there for many years with joints like Keebra Park and Palm Beach/Currumbin
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