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| The problem these days with sport (the problem with modern life in general, in fact) is that people expect an instant return for their investment. The days of signing a player, nurturing him through an A team apprenticeship, into the first team and paitiently waiting for him to develop over time seem gone.
These days youngsters seem to have a very small window of opportunity to make a stellar rise to first-team, because the pressures on teams, clubs and coaches is to achieve success instantly, and long-term investment doesn't give short-term payback. You only have to look at the shameful way the A-team/Academy/dual-reg fiasco was conducted, with clubs selling off the future in favour of perennially failed short-term pipe dreams to see where the priority lies.
O'Brien may be 23 but he has never been afforded an extended run in the first team in the way Myler has. I was only half-joing when I said on another thread that going to the NRL for a year and changing his name to Joel O'Brien was the best way to get a guranteed run in the first team, and huge amounts of goodwill and leniency where poor form is concerned. A certain prop forward would certainly vouch for that.
Martin Crompton was always one of my favourite half-backs for Wires, but it was only when Brian Johnson got a grip of him as coach, squeezed an extra yard of pace out of him and gave him regular first team gametime that he realised his potential.
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| Widdop is killing it now that he is the main play maker at the dragons, can't see him leaving yet. I think he got voted the signing of the season by NRL fans or something like that.
Daly cherry evans will get Cronks maroon and Aussie shirt this year or next so there is a possibility of signing him if he's looking for a new challenge. Cronk is probably the best kicker in the game. IF that happens then WOW!
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| Oz fijian aye? Is it Petero Civoniceva.?
Wes Naiqama?
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| We've apparently been talking to Anthony Tupou I've been told. Bit out of left field, and a name I hadn't heard linked before. Seems we're linked with anyone these days though.
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1883.jpg Didn't William Webb Ellis pick up the ball and run, someone should really tell Rugby Union.
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| Quote: Timmy the Koi "We've apparently been talking to Anthony Tupou I've been told. Bit out of left field, and a name I hadn't heard linked before. Seems we're linked with anyone these days though.'"
In talks with him at the time of the Waterhouse signing.
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| Tupou can play, but his injury record is horrific. Can't string any games together
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