Souths kick our juniors out of comp

[Freddy]

Tackle Two – Roosters chicks kicked-out of the Burrow

Add another chapter to the age old Rabbitohs-Roosters rivalry.
Two weeks ago the South Sydney Junior League wrote to their counterparts at Eastern Suburbs with some bad news.
After including Roosters’ junior teams in their competitions for the past two decades, Souths advised that they no longer intended to uphold the arrangement going forward into 2017.
The Roosters kids relied on being part of their neighbour’s league, because they simply don’t have enough clubs to form their own.
We understand Souths have been frustrated over the Roosters poaching several of their promising young juniors.
The final straw was Australian Schoolboys prodigy Nat Butcher, who joined the Roosters two years ago from South Eastern Seagulls.
Souths made specific mention of the 19-year-old’s defection in their letter. The Roosters are still hopeful of a change of heart.
If there’s not 740 junior players – including the youngest son of immortal Andrew ‘Joey’ Johns – could be without a home next season.

[The Brain]

...and to think we had the chance to bury these diickheads when they were kicked out of the league ..and didnt .Start taking the real east back and you will have a junior comp

[Freddy]

What hypocrites! they have poached many Easts juniors/players including Angus Crichton and poached more under 20 players than any other NRL club. Do you see or hear other clubs being this arrogant..

Easts should entice Coogee Dolphins back to being an Easts club or start their own Coogee/Randwick club and then together with the 4 existing clubs have their own Eastern subs comp again. Would be great to see this happen otherwise all Easts juniors will play at souths clubs and be counted as their juniors which would be disgraceful.

[stringaz]

Typical south's bullshit, they're on a road to nowhere after the NRL has found a new favourite in the sharkoids

[Chooksforme]

Yes I cant understand why our club hasent looked at raising legal action to recover the former easts juniors clubs, back to their rightful place, we seemed to of offered very little resistance in this matter, now after reading the letter from Souths Juniors, I hope that has put a rocket up them and the NRL boss's, god help us, after the mess they have presided over this season.

[Guest]

merge with the Bulldogs or Saints comps and surround the soft cocks i say

[Tommy Smith]

Wow. I wonder how the NRL will respond to this (not that I have faith in their competence).

But making kids pay the price because you're a bunch of petty merkins is pretty pathetic.

They really are such a sad, insecure bunch.

[infidelrooster]

The Rooster & Newtown juniors should start their own comp.

[BUDDY]

If they did this in 2000 would we had not made 6 grand finals to their gifted one?

Butcher winning the NYC Player Of The Year must have got under Maximus' skin.

They are well on their way to another 40 year drought.

[milanja]

What hypocrites! they have poached many Easts juniors/players including Angus Crichton and poached more under 20 players than any other NRL club. Do you see or hear other clubs being this arrogant..

Easts should entice Coogee Dolphins back to being an Easts club or start their own Coogee/Randwick club and then together with the 4 existing clubs have their own Eastern subs comp again. Would be great to see this happen otherwise all Easts juniors will play at souths clubs and be counted as their juniors which would be disgraceful.

From all reports, we never really looked after our junior club for a very long time, and most were happy to be in the souths comps.

If the club doesn't want to spend money on the juniors, then let the kids play for other junior clubs and poach the good ones when we see fit. It's not like we get of influx of players through our own junior clubs, let alone very good ones.

[Rooster_6]

From all reports, we never really looked after our junior club for a very long time, and most were happy to be in the souths comps.

If the club doesn't want to spend money on the juniors, then let the kids play for other junior clubs and poach the good ones when we see fit. It's not like we get of influx of players through our own junior clubs, let alone very good ones.

Im pretty sure you will find its part of the key criteria in holding an NRL license to fund local junior clubs. The Central Coast doesn't count either as they are viewed as a secondary junior funding for the club, something the NRL have been pushing more clubs to do.

I think we made a mistake when we split with the Jets, we needed to come up with some sort of mutually beneficial merger that saw us take their local junior clubs that currently play in the Souths comp.

[ism22]

Yes I cant understand why our club hasent looked at raising legal action to recover the former easts juniors clubs, back to their rightful place, we seemed to of offered very little resistance in this matter, now after reading the letter from Souths Juniors, I hope that has put a rocket up them and the NRL boss's, god help us, after the mess they have presided over this season.

Fair point... we were forced to give them a heap of our junior clubs to make the competition more competitive.

Now Souffs are using that gift to take control and reduce competition from a rival club. I swear honour and good faith mean nothing to some.

And yeah, re what Rooster6 said about the Jets, I'm actually REALLY bummed about that deal because I went to a heap of Jets games + purchased their merchandise thinking they were the Roosters' reserve grade team. Now they are Souffs and we got NOTHING for giving up a MASSIVE + super popular/historic brand that we'd helped keep alive. It's bull$hyt3!!!

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Fair point... we were forced to give them a heap of our junior clubs to make the competition more competitive.

Now Souffs are using that gift to take control and reduce competition from a rival club. I swear honour and good faith mean nothing to some.

And yeah, re what Rooster6 said about the Jets, I'm actually REALLY bummed about that deal because I went to a heap of Jets games + purchased their merchandise thinking they were the Roosters' reserve grade team. Now they are Souffs and we got NOTHING for giving up a MASSIVE + super popular/historic brand that we'd helped keep alive. It's bull$hyt3!!!

Bears are Souths feeder team and Jets are Cronulla Sharks I think..

[milanja]

Im pretty sure you will find its part of the key criteria in holding an NRL license to fund local junior clubs. The Central Coast doesn't count either as they are viewed as a secondary junior funding for the club, something the NRL have been pushing more clubs to do.

I think we made a mistake when we split with the Jets, we needed to come up with some sort of mutually beneficial merger that saw us take their local junior clubs that currently play in the Souths comp.

R6, when i was debating with someone about our borders that got changed 50 odd years ago, i was looking up many different articles, and a few of them said that easts very rarley nurtured or cared for much of the junior league, and that's why many were happy to jump ship.

Whether it is a prerequisite or not I'm not sure, but how many junior players does Melbourne, or gold coast have? Do they just pick an area in qld and adopt them as juniors?

[elo]

The kids are the only losers here, what a spiteful move.