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Message: [QUOTE="Lockysillegitimatechild, post: 2889654, member: 8814"] It should be a condition of being in the nrl that their junior team be at least based in Victoria. That's embarrassing for the nrl. I can't remember mentioning their business model being a shambles? Did I say that did I? They have no excuses left for not having more Victorian based players debuting for the club. THREE IN 20 YEARS?! Seriously, you cannot justify that in any way! How can you argue that evidence? 20 years! That's 2 generations! They fill their stadiums, they've had origin down their, they have 4000 juniors, they have run out of excuses to be a Queensland team. They can still invest here, like other teams do, but they spend 95% of their investment here... Ok I will look at broncos top 17... Boyd: south east Queensland (no Gold Coast team when he came through, we were the closest club by a loooong way) Oates: central Queensland (closest club by a looooong way again) Roberts: bought Opacic: Redcliffe boy Kahu: kiwi who came through Gold Coast Milford: Brisbane kid who got scouted by a team from another state Knik: kiwi who grew up in Brisbane McGuire: Brisbane kid who spent a few years in nsw, moved back to Brisbane at 13 I believe McCullough: Dalby kid, Brisbane is by far the closest club again Sims: nsw kid, played 20's with us but can't claim him in the slightest Glenn: kiwi kid who moved to Gold Coast Gillett: bribing island junior. Brisbane was the closest club for him to call "local" again.. Bird: recruited Ofa: born in nz but grew up in Brisbane Tpj: recruited Newcastle junior Thaiday: Townsville boy Lodge: recruited 9/17 grew up in Brisbane or it was the closest nrl team at the time by a long, long way.. and this is a period where our best locals are often getting scouted by other clubs & we have less then normal. It's one thing we do better then most (give local players a go, up until recently when we no choice because we are getting raided by parasite clubs) so it was a poor argument point to raise in your argument Melbourne: 0/25 AFTER 20 YEARS..... The excuses have run out [/QUOTE]

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