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Apologies if posted alreadyThe Canterbury Bulldogs have landed the services of a young promising playmaker from one of the club's biggest rivals ahead of the upcoming 2026 season.Over the past few seasons, the Bulldogs have recruited some of the…
"Coryn, I think we would like to but identifying them from our base is subjective to their original club not identfying them, an unlikely happening. The alternative is making an offer that we have "something" the original club does not have. The…"
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I asked this awhile ago with regards to pathway talent are we producing the likes of a Casey Maclean or a Leka Halasima as examples from other pathway systems from other clubs.I'm with your exact premise but by committing to it can we afford to…"
I asked this awhile ago with regards to pathway talent are we producing the likes of a Casey Maclean or a Leka Halasima as examples from other pathway systems from other clubs.I'm with your exact premise but by committing to it can we afford to…"
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I agree we don't have much depth. Volkman isn't a FG. Lorenzo and other juniors are not ready. In fact any injury to 1,6,7,9 will result in Papalii coming into the team in some way
We have the worst outside backs in the juniors. We should be throwing cash at a premiership winner centre or origin level rep player. It'll help our development of the juniors buying Albert Kelly does fuck all.
Oh yes let's just buy Farnworth or Crichton right now for obscene money.
worth a try
Well it would be loss/loss. As if they don't try you have a go as they didn't attempt to get a player. But if they do try and fail you have a go that we are useless at getting good players.
These Juniors we are pinning our hopes on better be worth it.
If we don't take a punt on them we have no hope of being a top club. I agree it's a gamble but realistically we don't have a club that is synonymous with success so we won't get top shelf players defecting to the Eels like they do at the Broncos or Roosters (or Bulldogs with Gus).
If we want to have sustained success we're going to have to "do a Penrith" and hope that our juniors can do some serious heavy lifting.
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I asked this awhile ago with regards to pathway talent are we producing the likes of a Casey Maclean or a Leka Halasima as examples from other pathway systems from other clubs.I'm with your exact premise but by committing to it can we afford to finish off the podium there also.For me our pathways are still a question mark when developing elite talent.Something to look at going foward I guess if we continue to struggle attracting the mentioned on the open market.
Talking about guys we missed from the sounds of things Lachie Galvin has improved leaps and bounds with regards to speed work with Roger Fabri this off season.Looks like he's in for a big year.
Coryn, I think we would like to but identifying them from our base is subjective to their original club not identfying them, an unlikely happening. The alternative is making an offer that we have "something" the original club does not have. The priority needs to be we identify our own and that's not always as obvious as it seems. Also in that event an outlier club can make an offer to good to refuse because they do not have home grown talent to compare with.
In the two examples you have outlined can you imagine either of those clubs losing them?....if for some strange reason they came off contract and went to market, you would be paying huge overs......not sure why you cannot see that.....when we got Dyllan Brown, he was in the under 16 age group, their will be 200 failures before you find another one and then you still have to be good enough to identify him and retain him.
I think your island/7's recruitment is more practical.....and I don't know where Semi is these days( retired?), but I would pay for him to set up an academy in Fiji and set up a rotational structure of bringing them over here.
No big loss.
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