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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3654447, member: 9052"] Yeah the next age group down... guys that are basically heading towards NRL in the next 1-2 yrs... the U19 origin level, etc. We've got Mozer, BTK, Willison and Mariner last year, Black coming through, etc. And you know there will be interest coming from down south to head hunt them... the development has been done and the vultures start looking to take them when they're about to hit NRL level. I think it would be harder for Qld teams to entice NSW kids to head north, because they can simply move to a different team that's a couple suburbs away for an opportunity. But I think if there's positions of need in our squad and we dont have a young guy on the verge of taking the spot or a guy on the fringes ready to take the spot (Mariner, Willison, Piaks, Mozer, etc.), then it becomes extremely difficult to recruit.... especially if you're going to ignore 66% of the juniors coming through (NSW having more players than Qld in general) whilst also having to compete with the other 16 teams for the kids in your own backyard. Basically every NSW team has scouts in Qld, but do we have any scouts down in NSW looking to bring them in the opposite direction? With the increasing competition in Qld players we will hinder ourselves moving forward if we only want to focus on Qld players... do the Broncos need to look at normalising the recruitment and head hunting of promising NSW juniors. If a Suaalii is coming through, why arent the broncos interested in bringing him to QLD... just an example of a star junior coming through, but only looking at NSW clubs. If there was an NRL draft would we just ignore generational NSW talent and only pick Qlders... probably not [/QUOTE]

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