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Message: [QUOTE="Ari Gold, post: 2392957, member: 1917"] Suns took all the early draft picks, and their salary cap concessions meant that all free agents went to the Suns for the extra $$$ and denied these other teams a chance. That said, Melbourne are a perenially crap team and would still suck in a 16 man competition. As for the Suns, they will be contenders in 3-4 years. They have the best draft picks and when those players start to reach their potential then the Suns will be easily the most competitive team on the Gold Coast. Of course, you could make that claim already. As for Jeb's original point, I'm very much of the belief that there is not enough talent to sustain 18 quality, competitive teams. It may well be that all the teams are competitive, but if that is the case, it will be a result of general mediocrity rather than having all these teams playing quality football. It will also only further serve to diminish and destroy the rewards of finding and developing talent as you will have even more teams with money to spend. Let's take the Titans for example. They are doing absolutely crap this year and what are their solutions? [B][U]This Year[/U][/B] Bring back Mat Rogers. Tick for youth movement there. Play Preston Campbell to replace Scott Prince. Because a 30 something whose about to retire is the future of the club. [B][U]Next Year[/U][/B] Signed Jamaal Idris. Signed Nate Myles. Signed Luke Douglas. Idris and Douglas are two players who have very much been developed by their clubs, and because the Titans are crap and have money to spend those two teams now lose those players. Introducing more teams will really only double the number of home grown players clubs are forced to lose. And bring down the general quality of NRL with it. [/QUOTE]

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