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Message: [QUOTE="theshed, post: 3488042, member: 2290"] Yeah that’s the Melbourne model and we are about to see if Penrith can pull it off too. It’s the only way under the cap to have prolonged success rather than going all in on a short premiership window. You lock down a core player group, with emphasis on the spine and then you fill the rest with good value players - generally either young talent that hasn’t got to that big contract stage yet, or older talent that the market undervalues due to age or lack of opportunities. They all either come off contract and leave for the pay like Herbie and Flegler, or they get too old to provide value like Marty in next year or the one after; or like TMM and Jensen they reestablish a correct market value. You get good at identifying these guys and know when to let them go: we’ve been doing a fantastic job of it recently and will hopefully only get better at it. Hopefully Dave gave Melbourne’s secret code to Scanlans. Ir just means a revolving door of guys who you squeeze value out of for 2, maybe 3 seasons at a time. Plus if you have continued success guys will want to come for cheaper and for opportunity to get a bigger deal when leaving. [/QUOTE]

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