5 Year Ladder

[Rocky Rhodes]

I hate it when we are always accused of trying to buy a premiership. The fact is, all 16 clubs try to buy premierships. The youth policy is flawed. All you get is inconsistent performances whilst the young player is developing, and once they develop into a decent 1st grader, you lose them to another club due to salary cap.

Well said.

There is more sense in this post that in all of Rooster_6 4,600 posts.

All the youth policy has done is make the Roosters a feeder club to the rest of the NRL. We put up with their crap and when they are experienced and more skilled they go elsewhere.

[Rocky Rhodes]

atleast weve made a gf in the last 5 years

So have Parradoesntmatta.

[Rocky Rhodes]

Yeh that's what this ladder proves.

It's not like Melbourne & Manly's success was based on the back of bringing through a strong group of youngsters.

It's obvious you don't even know what a youth policy is. The storm have always had strong experience to go with their youth. In 1999, for example..do Glenn Lazarus, Roddy Howe etc etc ring a bell?

[Rooster_6]

It's obvious you don't even know what a youth policy is. The storm have always had strong experience to go with their youth. In 1999, for example..do Glenn Lazarus, Roddy Howe etc etc ring a bell?

A youth policy doesn't mean you can't have experienced players as well, it's just a concerted effort to put as many resources into sourcing juniors and developing them.

Signing experienced players doesn't compromise this, I'm still pissed off that the club let Myles & Ryles go.

But lets be realistic, The Storm's success is built on the back of Smith, Cronk & Slater all coming through together. And they continue to keep on bringing through good young talent like Tohu Harris, Widdop, Duffie, O'neil & Bromwich. Their experienced signings don't compromise this development of their juniors they enhance it. It's all about balance, a youth policy doesn't mean that your team has to be full of kids. I fully understand it, I think it's you who takes the name way too literally.

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suprised by where the Tigers are #5 very intersesting