Roosters appose to rookie draft.

[Guest]

The Sydney Roosters will oppose the introduction of a rookie draft in its current proposed form after the NRL came out in support of a move towards a new system to distribute young talent amongst clubs.

NRL boss David Smith is one of those behind a push for the introduction of an entry rookie draft in the NRL ahead of the 2017 NRL season that would be aimed at rewarding clubs for developing juniors and provide an equalisation of talent across the 16 teams.

Respected South Sydney Rabbitohs administrator Shane Richardson has called for such a draft to be fast-tracked for the 2016 season.

But Roosters chief executive Brian Canavan has urged caution, arguing that the player market already self regulates, using the examples of mid-season moves of Tautau Moga and Daniel Mortimer from the premiers to North Queensland and the Gold Coast respectively.


The other clubs can piss off and develop their own players, time for Smith to head back to pommy land.

[fletch]

how can you have a true rookie draft when Smith wants to allow the likes of Penrith/Parra/Canberra to pick 5 players from each of their respective regions before the rest are thrown into the draft, that could mean the best 20 players are locked up before the draft even started.

I get the feeling that our alliance with the central coast was sped up by the prospect of a draft system coming in, I wonder if we will be allowed to lock up the 5 best juniors from the central coast like the teams from other regions.

if that fails we just have to find 1 kid to challenge the system to get it thrown out as a restraint of trade again.

[milanja]

Canavan must be getting scared since we have the highest number of players that came from junior clubs from outside our area.

[rwbfl]

Well considering the roosters only have 760 odd players in their local area, compared to other sides which have junior nurseries into the thousands, there's little wonder the club are against it. Especially now that the Nrl will allow these bigger areas to tie up their best talent; all but defeats the purpose of the draft.

Wait till these teams full of juniors start bitching when sides with a lack of juniors target their stars, then they'll be complaining about that.

[milanja]

Because we only have a small amount of junior clubs, why don't we ask for some of them back if they were originally once ours?

Souths would cry at the idea, but they cry when we buy juniors, cant have it both ways.

Not sure some of those junior clubs would want to come back under the roosters banner, because in an article a few years ago, it mentioned that our club neglected those junior clubs, and were treated better when they were taken over by others.

[TheBigFella]

We should ask for the draft to be pro-rata.. That protects clubs such as ours that don't have the numbers to compete with larger nurseries.

[The Axe]

an astute piece of management to partner with the central coast nursery

[Johnny.]

Just to clarify, it's Roosters opposed to rookie draft. Appose means to put something in juxtaposition with something else.

[stephenj]

'respected' south Sydney administrator? hardly!

[TheLoneRooster]

'respected' south Sydney administrator? hardly!

LOL, beat me to it. Is Brian Canavan not respected? Did that sentence NEED the word respected?
As for the draft, the NRL can take a long walk off a short pier. Have they forgotten Terry Hill?

[chook 56]

Have they run out of ideas?
Let's revisit this failed old chestnut, shall we?

[The Axe]

Chook, if you hang around long enough, most things go full circle. The NRL draft is no different

[Vasco]

Why don't they re-draw the boundaries and give us back Coogee, Randwick, Moore Park etc.

[ism22]

how can you have a true rookie draft when Smith wants to allow the likes of Penrith/Parra/Canberra to pick 5 players from each of their respective regions before the rest are thrown into the draft, that could mean the best 20 players are locked up before the draft even started.

I get the feeling that our alliance with the central coast was sped up by the prospect of a draft system coming in, I wonder if we will be allowed to lock up the 5 best juniors from the central coast like the teams from other regions.

if that fails we just have to find 1 kid to challenge the system to get it thrown out as a restraint of trade again.

Exactly...
While hooking up some struggling teams might seem like a good idea haven't we learned from Origin and the Storm?

A team has a few bad years so you give them a few extra star players. Then they win 8 years straight and everybody else gets ****ed over. The salary cap self regulates everything... no need to interfere with it!!

[elo]

how can you have a true rookie draft when Smith wants to allow the likes of Penrith/Parra/Canberra to pick 5 players from each of their respective regions before the rest are thrown into the draft, that could mean the best 20 players are locked up before the draft even started.

I get the feeling that our alliance with the central coast was sped up by the prospect of a draft system coming in, I wonder if we will be allowed to lock up the 5 best juniors from the central coast like the teams from other regions.

if that fails we just have to find 1 kid to challenge the system to get it thrown out as a restraint of trade again.

Every club will be allowed to handpick 5.

The problem is, the best kids on rookie contracts will be advised by player managers to sign as short a deal as possible and get onto the free market ASAP and what has that ended up achieving? Sweet **** all.

Bring in a trade system with transfer fees at the same time and then you may be getting somewhere, that would definitely help, just a rookie draft system however, what a laugh.