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I completely agree.I hope you're right and Pay does show more faith in them. Along with DWZ, Renouf was an absolute standout the last few games and dominated Haas and Fifita, the best two young forwards in the comp so he needs to play a lot more minutes this year.
Likewise Wakeham, Ogden and Harper showed glimpses of skill and class that prove they belong in the NRL. Pay just has to keep trusting the youngsters and giving them more opportunities. If not, we'll finish 12th again and with four weeks left he'll play them all but it will be too little too late and some of them might have signed elsewhere.
There is no excuse with this much cap space to not lock up these youngsters long term. And do it soon before other clubs come sniffing around!
The Andersons main election promise was to emphasise junior development and so far we've lost some promising juniors already. So let's see if they are true to their word.
The Board, the coach, the CEO all appear to be mediocre at implementing the necessary change in a decent time frame, based on what we've seen so far.
No one else has out their hand up to offer any improvement so we will stick with this lot. They are better than Dib at least.
I have my deep concerns about Pay playing favourites and not encouraging the better youngsters. It's obvious to most but Pay is old school...that doesn't cut it these days.
I have reconciled myself to us being a struggling, no name team without x factor players like Mortimer, Lamb, Mason, Brentnall, Morris, Tonga etc etc for a long time into the future.
We just don't seem to have the drive or singlely passionate will to make it happen no matter what anymore.
Maybe I'm a bad supporter or given up myself, but I can't see us renewing and growing our fan base anytime soon with the vibe I get from the club atm.