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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3654435, member: 1899"] There's a few players at Red Hill on training contracts, but the only one that I recognise is Bukowski. You made the point the other day that the gap between the NRL and QRL is widening and I tend to agree. There's plenty of talent there and clubs would be silly to put the QCup to the side entirely but you couldn't pick a QCup or NSW Cup player and expect them to do a job. The exception is when you have a player like Hosking who put in the hard work for years, was a massive stand-out and came in during the Origin period. He was never going to get the Broncos out of their 2022 slump, but when the Broncos were out of troops he made an immediate impact. There's nobody of that calibre at the Broncos affiliates. You're looking down another level at your Patston's and Coburn's and for whatever reason, Kevie didn't want to invest in either. My hope during the off-season was that Ethan O'Neil would catch fire, force his way into a development deal and effectively become Capewell 2.0 (who also started as a Hosking type signing fwiw) but it just hasn't happened for him this year. While Patston has been better and has had his moments at Burleigh, I can't recall any game where I thought he was in the Top 3. Still, I would have liked to have seen Kevie name two affiliate players when they played the Dragons - just for my own peace of mind that every base was covered. [/QUOTE]

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