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 Post subject: Re: Rumours and signings v9
PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2024 12:42 am 
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Father Ted wrote:IMG should be insisting that to get a Super League licence a club should have a scholarship, academy and reserve team to complete a pathway structure to the first team.


Great idea in principle but where are all the players going to come from?






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 Post subject: Re: Rumours and signings v9
PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2024 8:40 pm 
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Father Ted wrote:IMG should be insisting that to get a Super League licence a club should have a scholarship, academy and reserve team to complete a pathway structure to the first team.

I think I'm right in saying some clubs are prevented from running fully fledged academys/scholarship teams. To be honest I'm not sure that even in an ideal world everyone should have one anyway. There are a lot of players running round in reserves at some clubs who very obviously are never going to be Super League quality. They just chuck them in there because they are obliged to run a reserves. Meanwhile those players pour their efforts into an unobtainable dream instead of getting a normal job, qualifications etc, then they don't return to the amateur game when it all falls apart. It doesn't really get talked about but I do think there's a level of responsibility from the pro game to not irresponsibly get lads involved who have no real chance of making it.

It would take some smart management but I'd sooner see closer links between NCL sides and reserves so that players who mature later or take up the game later still have opportunities, and those who don't make it still return to the amateur game.






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 Post subject: Re: Rumours and signings v9
PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2024 10:21 pm 
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jonh wrote:Great idea in principle but where are all the players going to come from?


Clubs need to be coaching in schools. Unfortunately, PE teachers and rugby are scarce on the ground.

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 Post subject: Re: Rumours and signings v9
PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2024 10:23 pm 
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Grimmy wrote:I think I'm right in saying some clubs are prevented from running fully fledged academys/scholarship teams. To be honest I'm not sure that even in an ideal world everyone should have one anyway. There are a lot of players running round in reserves at some clubs who very obviously are never going to be Super League quality. They just chuck them in there because they are obliged to run a reserves. Meanwhile those players pour their efforts into an unobtainable dream instead of getting a normal job, qualifications etc, then they don't return to the amateur game when it all falls apart. It doesn't really get talked about but I do think there's a level of responsibility from the pro game to not irresponsibly get lads involved who have no real chance of making it.

It would take some smart management but I'd sooner see closer links between NCL sides and reserves so that players who mature later or take up the game later still have opportunities, and those who don't make it still return to the amateur game.


Unless we get more juniors in the game we are never going to compete with the Aussies. Penrith has more juniors than the whole of the teams in our country.

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 Post subject: Re: Rumours and signings v9
PostPosted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 7:00 am 
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Bit left field but who remembers Gabe Hamlin? Was a solid forward for us and currently only 27. Did he get banned for awhile for drugs?

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 7:29 am 
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WWste wrote:Bit left field but who remembers Gabe Hamlin? Was a solid forward for us and currently only 27. Did he get banned for awhile for drugs?


2 year ban if i remember correctly. was decent enough but not exactly a 'big' forward






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 Post subject: Re: Rumours and signings v9
PostPosted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 7:34 am 
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Zig wrote:Unless we get more juniors in the game we are never going to compete with the Aussies. Penrith has more juniors than the whole of the teams in our country.

Agreed, academies etc don't get more juniors in the game though.






Frank Zappa wrote:Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

The_Enforcer wrote:Most idiotic post ever goes to Grimmy..... The way to restart should be an arm wrestle between a designated player from each side.

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 Post subject: Re: Rumours and signings v9
PostPosted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 7:35 am 
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WWste wrote:Bit left field but who remembers Gabe Hamlin? Was a solid forward for us and currently only 27. Did he get banned for awhile for drugs?

Yep. Claimed if was traces of coke from kissing a girl in a nightclub who had taken it :SHIFTY:






Frank Zappa wrote:Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

The_Enforcer wrote:Most idiotic post ever goes to Grimmy..... The way to restart should be an arm wrestle between a designated player from each side.

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 Post subject: Re: Rumours and signings v9
PostPosted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 11:28 am 
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WWste wrote:Bit left field but who remembers Gabe Hamlin? Was a solid forward for us and currently only 27. Did he get banned for awhile for drugs?

Thought he did well for us. Pity how it ended!






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 Post subject: Re: Rumours and signings v9
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WWste wrote:Bit left field but who remembers Gabe Hamlin? Was a solid forward for us and currently only 27. Did he get banned for awhile for drugs?


Haha blast from the past. Looked ok in the games I saw him play. May be a false memory but I'm sure he was frustrated with the way Wane wanted him to play. He had good leg drive on contact but Wane told him he wanted him to hit the deck quickly and play the ball. The coke on the lips was comedy gold. Think he played lower level back in Aus when his ban ended. Amazed he is only 27 though

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