So the Tele has again had a go at our recruitment...
And here's the battle of the two teams..
http://resources.news.com.au/files/2011/06/02/1226068/261180-eel-exiles.pdf
Personally, I'd take our current team anyway. The 'Exiles' would struggle for go-forwards and while they clearly out-match in the centres, I'd still take Jarryd over both Tonga and Lyons combined.
And it's also worth noting that our current team has players like Poore and Reddy missing, so its not really a realistic comparison of our "squad" anyway.
Based on these players, in my view, we've made it about three or four poor recruitment decisions with our juniors.
Indeed, if you want to bag our recruitment, it's not about the players we've let go, it's about the players we've haven't brought into the club to fill holes in our roster. Like not giving our up-and-coming young playmakers, an experienced partner that would have made for better combinations and given them a greater chance of succeeding.
I've been pretty vocal about disagreeing with a number of our recruitment decisions, but this article just shitted me.
And how about we compare the "exiles" with next year's side?
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I honestly don't think any other team gets the amount of crap that Parra do, and we get so little positive press to balance it out.
That said, I think every Parra fan can agree that our retention is very, very poor. I'm looking forward to the increase in squad size with the new TV deal, as I think it will allow us to better take advantage of our ability to find and develop youngsters. Hopefully it'll allow us to retain more fringe youngsters until they start to show their true colours.
seriously, how can you blame anyone for attacking our recruitment and retention - it has been absolutely horrfic for a while now!!! I think we deserve every bit of criticism we get for this - look where we are on the table for the last 2 seasons!! I have no issues with this being highlighted at all - it realistically shows how we have got it all wrong.
hoefully though it ends this year and we will retain/ recruit who we actually should be - lets see
yep Parra deserve this bad press. Look at Raiders or Broncos, they tie up there promising juniors long term. we shoudln't have put ourselves in a situation where we were forced to shell out big bucks for sandow when we had hodko k.keating, maloney and albert kelly in our system just 2 short years ago. Im glad the article was written as maybe Parra management will wake up to themselves and re-sign the likes of Mitchell and Humble long term.
Letting go of the likes of gallen, buhrer, david williams, hinchcliffe, kk, kelly, hodko, micheal hodgson, willie tonga etc. was extremely short-sighted.
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