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#126
Just like the bulldogs played a legal team last night?
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Did Battler and Rod Steel place these?
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#128
Ok, this is not sour grapes.....
But watching this Parra team play i get the same visions as i do when watch Melbourne play - in terms of the cap...
Thats all i have to say....
How u fit......
Hayne, Inu, Burt, Reddy, Poore, Moi, Moi, Hindmarsh, Mateo, Shackelton, Keating brothers......
Grothe not even playing....
Rod, cmon, what are your thoughts?
Rostos, have a good think about what you have written here.
Hayne is the only player in that group on $400k. They spent $300k on Poore.
The other blokes would be lucky to be on an average of $200k.
There would be $2.5 million or so there. How much do you honestly think Shackelton, Inu and the Keating brothers are on?
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Posted:
#131
Its getting harder to be a fan of a team in the NRL and just the NRL in general.
I remember when I was a kid and when your team was playing another team it acutally meant something very unique. Almost every team had an identity of its own due to the players that played there year in year out.
Now this thing is just an annual chop and change game of musical chairs. 
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Posted:
#132
Knights will be able to spend big next year. Piss off MacDougall and we'll have even more to spend. Let Cross go as well. But the big fear is that with idiots like Burraston at the helm, they seem intent on buying 'name' players who are past their use buy date just for the sake of spending the cap. That is a real worry. I reckon if marquee players who fit the need aren't available, either keep the money or buy a lot of young, raw players (or hang on to the good juniors) to increase depth. You may uncover a gem out of them.
Strong rumours that Finch is headed home to Newcastle.
If they buy O'Donnell I'll harm myself.
I wanted them to sign Carney, but they missed the boat there too.
Gidley, Carney, Mullen, De Gois would have been an exciting 1,6,7 and 9 
Enticing people to Newcastle with Stone as head coach would be hard though, I'd imagine.
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Posted:
#134
Quote Originally Posted by Jive_Turkey:
Its getting harder to be a fan of a team in the NRL and just the NRL in general.
I remember when I was a kid and when your team was playing another team it acutally meant something very unique. Almost every team had an identity of its own due to the players that played there year in year out.
Now this thing is just an annual chop and change game of musical chairs.
Until they allow a discount for nuturing and developing juniors, the whole thing is a fucking joke.
Almost every NRL side would have a Newcastle junior in it. How is that fair on Newcastle's junior coaches, talent scouts etc?
You can't keep them all, but Matthew Johns should never have been forced out. That's what happens with the cap. Every year a GF team gets torn apart. I agree you can't go back to the days where teams (St George's 11 straight GF's) can stockpile talent. But this merry-go-round is bullshit.
Bruno Cullen said the other day that he suggested to Gallop that after a player has been with a club for 5 years, each year after that his salary should be discounted under the cap by 10%, so that after ten years only half of his salary is counted under the cap.
Given that clubs sign kids at 15 and 16, by the time they are at their peak they would be encouraged to stay - although I guess the risk is that clubs still have to afford to pay them.
Clubs like the Roosters have scrapped their junior development. How fucking disgusting is that?
In this regard I do feel sorry for Melbourne - they have poured heaps of time and money into the Slaters, Cronks, Smiths etc.
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