Gus on our squad and the salary cap

[milanja]

It is never the raiders fault. Furner (Don) and Stuart do the right thing and sack Carney, Dugan, Flake etc and then other clubs who don't do the right thing claim these players for themselves. It's the usual chip on the shoulder, we are the victims raiders mentality at play again, something which has existed for years here in Canberra. Canberra have the whole of southern NSW and surrounding NSW regional areas to get their 'juniors' from. Yes the team that loves nothing more than bleating about our club, get the bulk of their juniors from NSW not the ACT. I have to live here and seriously get sick to death of hearing the raiders whinge and whine about what other clubs have or other clubs do all the time. It's about time they just concentrated on themselves and managng their own club in a more professional manner than they actually do..

As do i mightyrooster.

do you remember the bucket appeal back in the nineties where they were asking for public donations to help them during the salary cap scandal? I have always despised them, probably from when they beat us in the major semi in 87, was only little back then, but it left an impression.

[bondi paul]

You mean on behalf of Ricky Stuart, who wrote the original Crawley article.

Little Sid James even had to mention our roster in the press conference. He couldn't help himself.

Why?

Because it helps him keep his job if everyone thinks Canberra are behind the eight ball.

Perhaps little sid james would be better off with a job "on the buses"

[mightyrooster]

did ricky ever mention how they kept the team in canberra in the 90s together under the cap?

Belcher, ferguson, meninga, PJ, mullins, hoppe, daley, stuart, clyde, walters, lazarus, todd, coyne, lance, furner nandruku, nagas, pongia, croker?

Did he mention the likes of carney, dugan, Monaghan, Fergo, campese, shillington, wighton, pappali who are all rep players and how they kept them in the team? Or is it how poorly raiders manage the club that drives them away?

It is never the raiders fault. Furner (Don) and Stuart do the right thing and sack Carney, Dugan, Flake etc and then other clubs who don't do the right thing claim these players for themselves. It's the usual chip on the shoulder, we are the victims raiders mentality at play again, something which has existed for years here in Canberra. Canberra have the whole of southern NSW and surrounding NSW regional areas to get their 'juniors' from. Yes the team that loves nothing more than bleating about our club, get the bulk of their juniors from NSW not the ACT. I have to live here and seriously get sick to death of hearing the raiders whinge and whine about what other clubs have or other clubs do all the time. It's about time they just concentrated on themselves and managng their own club in a more professional manner than they actually do..

[Johnny Tobin]

He didn't funnily enough.

[milanja]

You mean on behalf of Ricky Stuart, who wrote the original Crawley article.

Little Sid James even had to mention our roster in the press conference. He couldn't help himself.

Why?

Because it helps him keep his job if everyone thinks Canberra are behind the eight ball.

did ricky ever mention how they kept the team in canberra in the 90s together under the cap?

Belcher, ferguson, meninga, PJ, mullins, hoppe, daley, stuart, clyde, walters, lazarus, todd, coyne, lance, furner nandruku, nagas, pongia, croker?

Did he mention the likes of carney, dugan, Monaghan, Fergo, campese, shillington, wighton, pappali who are all rep players and how they kept them in the team? Or is it how poorly raiders manage the club that drives them away?

[Johnny Tobin]

the kent story a return of serve on behalf of cawley - it so predictable.saw it coming a mile off

You mean on behalf of Ricky Stuart, who wrote the original Crawley article.

Little Sid James even had to mention our roster in the press conference. He couldn't help himself.

Why?

Because it helps him keep his job if everyone thinks Canberra are behind the eight ball.

[Hawkeye]

Kent
...swap the e for a u and that best sums him up !.

[Salvatori Grubber]

As for Kent rarely find anything he says illuminating about football - can’t remember him banging on in 2012 as we finished 13th about why NRL clubs weren't fighting each to sign up Moa and O'Donnell, or earlier on in the piece, hurry up and pick up the young Kiwi back SKD when he turned up at Clovelly, or the Parra unwanted in Tupou, or praising the rising youngsters such as Cordner, Guerra, Friend, JWH or RTS as many of them played in our younger grades.

As he said “Now, I assumed it would have been fairly easy to recognise most players, at schoolboy level, with the potential to go on and play rep football at NRL level”.

Apparently it is that easy for everyone to quote Kent himself “but then what would I know?”

Fantastic retort. Well done.

[bondi paul]

the kent story a return of serve on behalf of cawley - it so predictable.saw it coming a mile off

[Frozen Chook]

For the last couple of decades I think they got it right and Phil acknowledges this in his article while Kent seeks maintain a few common themes of the NRL soap opera which provides the majority of the media with plenty of easily regurgitated material for tomorrows paper and their weekly TV spots.

[Frozen Chook]

i think for Easts they got burnt during the period of the mi eighties until Gould arrived with some pretty poor recruitment options with established players.

[Frozen Chook]

sure would be interested - Phil has also has made some interesting comments in relation to the downside of this approach in regards to the interests of young players with clubs warehousing all the talent in their area of influence.

[2026]

interesting 2026 - for Brisbane when they kicked off they had a huge geographic pool of youngsters who could enter the NRL comp through their club whilst not needing to leave QLD.

You may still be able to find it on Triple m's web site.It's worth a listen.

[Frozen Chook]

interesting 2026 - for Brisbane when they kicked off they had a huge geographic pool of youngsters who could enter the NRL comp through their club whilst not needing to leave QLD.

[2026]

I know many on here as I have continued to try and expose the well-worn story that sports hack masquerading as journalists have trotted out since the 1970’s about Easts buying premierships.
It has been Easts approach since the end of the Gould era that we will develop squads largely as young players with a few key signings look at the 2000 grand final squad where the large percentage of the squad was under 23 led by Fittler and Lam and a few mid-career forwards. Went onto win the 2002 Grand final.

A similar pathway was followed leading up to the 2013 Grand Final with a relatively young squad boosted by the key signings of Jennings, SBW and Maloney joining Minichello who was the youngster in the previous decade’s rising squad. Add to that a couple of ex NRL super league players in Moa and O’Donnell and a quality coach and we have another grand final win.

There was a very interesting interview with Gus on Triple m around 4 weeks ago.He stated that this was the Broncos early model and one they are trying to replicate at the Panthers.

I think the interview may have been just before the Panthers vs Dogs round 1 game.