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Nasheed here,
I dont comment much nowadays but have to speak up here.
It occurred to me that our downfall is due to Melbourne.
The success melb have now, the sustained success, was us before.
When they came in, they ripped some of the staff from us, they literally have been quoted as modelling their club on ours, as well as some astute player signatures like Scott Hill.
Yes- our success did continue a lottle after they came in, but dont let that fool you. That is positive and nice tasting residue. The early 2000's success was a combination of blatant cheating on our part and the blossoming of juniors that were in place in the 90's coming to fruition. Downfalls have a pipeline effect. If a fish belly starts to rot, that fish still swims for 1/3 of its life before its noticed.
Melb took from us but because our top was doing so well we didnt see the problems with the engine.
Yeah we had fleeimg success ten yrars ago, but all teams have a spike.
Fair play to them though, they grew, we didnt adapt, and hired woke appointments like Castle.
We are a club that makes up numbers now, with no real strategic value to the nrl.
low junior base, low economic area, no tv revenue upside and a supporter base thatll show up no matter wat.
perfect team to set up the darlings of the nrl to pump leb style. Nasheed.
I dont comment much nowadays but have to speak up here.
It occurred to me that our downfall is due to Melbourne.
The success melb have now, the sustained success, was us before.
When they came in, they ripped some of the staff from us, they literally have been quoted as modelling their club on ours, as well as some astute player signatures like Scott Hill.
Yes- our success did continue a lottle after they came in, but dont let that fool you. That is positive and nice tasting residue. The early 2000's success was a combination of blatant cheating on our part and the blossoming of juniors that were in place in the 90's coming to fruition. Downfalls have a pipeline effect. If a fish belly starts to rot, that fish still swims for 1/3 of its life before its noticed.
Melb took from us but because our top was doing so well we didnt see the problems with the engine.
Yeah we had fleeimg success ten yrars ago, but all teams have a spike.
Fair play to them though, they grew, we didnt adapt, and hired woke appointments like Castle.
We are a club that makes up numbers now, with no real strategic value to the nrl.
low junior base, low economic area, no tv revenue upside and a supporter base thatll show up no matter wat.
perfect team to set up the darlings of the nrl to pump leb style. Nasheed.
