Quote Irregular Hoops="Irregular Hoops"Think recruitment for next year needs to concentrate on the outside backs. Easier said than done. Not much available and think we'll struggle to offload those we don't want.
Gentles and McRaes legacy is under performing players on long contracts and big money.
We seemed to be heading in the right direction, but lack of consistency seems to plague our club.'"
Lack of a long-term plan with transfers and contract extensions under Sharp, Agar & Gentle and under Hetherington & Pearson has played a large part.
We still haven't effectively replaced Cooke 7 years on! and i've lost count of the amount of players we've paid to go early.
I appreciate that the changes to the exchange rate and tax rules, and NRL salary cap means its much harder to get quality Aussies & Kiwi's to come over...but we seem to panic buy year after year. Little thought is put in to what we want the team to look like in 2-3 years time and we must be the only team in SL/NRL to spend more money on 2nd rowers and wingers than halves and hookers. Just about every other team gets 6, 7 & 9 sorted then builds from there. We just panic buy a load of squad players and try and fit them all in.
