That’s the thing we are in a similar position to then, lacking quality players in the spine, backline and upfront.
Imagine trying to use this as a defence for pay... Yes this doesn't help him but it's been pointed out here regularly that he continually picks the wrong 17 and waits like 30mins to make an interchange and doesn't even use his full amount of changes. He's shit simple as
agreed, that would be a decent team
You know what I like about non descript people like you - nothing. Lets face it, you would need to write an essay and an equivalent sized War and Peace to describe what you are trying to get communicate. I thing its poor to desrribe a post as kindergarten based for one, we are Bulldogs and for two, such poor use of argument is as, lets face it, pretty poor champ. Stick to something constructive and polite or go and join netball where everyone will know your bite is far less than your bite. Grow up bubba !
Hahaha. Netball is a great sport. It's easy on the eye and very entertaining when you got your money on it. You should try it!
If we had no cap room we should have made no signings outside of DWZ and just promoted within: how do you explain these signings?
Exactly right. And it’s that exact thing the pay/Anderson love boys don’t see.
Hasn't had much game time to be fair so must be down on match fitness.
If only it were that simple, the Cap is ~$9.9m, we have to have 30 players registered and the minimum is $120k. We can't simply have, say, 20 players registered and still spend the $9.9m. The average NRL salary is ~$330k and assembling a team is a balancing act of players above and below that average making up the 30. If I had to hazard a guess I would say 7 of the players you listed would be on less than the average, most on less than half that. In simple terms, we can't say let's not have 4 of those 7 and recruit 1 gun, strike, player instead because we must have 30 players. A brain teaser, for every player we recruit for $900k we would have to recruit 4 players at the $120k minimum in order to get the average back to ~$330k. Let's guess (it's only a guess) and say we have 3 players whose current year contract value adds up to ~$3m (we all can guess who they might be) that means we have to have 12 players on the minimum $120K. That's 15 players out of the compulsory 30, leaving only 15 more that also have to average ~$330k each.
There's way more to it than that. Every player has agreed (between them and the trainers) fitness benchmarks that they have to hit (including their playing weight).
Staff to blame as much as the player. That's what makes the difference.
What are you suggesting? That the staff whip them regularly to make sure that they train hard? Stick with them 24/7 to ensure that they stick to their diet as prescribed by the nutritionist? Lock the fridge door to stop the midnight snacks? The benchmarks are agreed and the player has to take the responsibility for meeting them.
What I'm suggesting is that Management and coaching are negligent and aren't respected if contracted employees don't take pride in their kpi targets.