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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2665655, member: 8215"] You make a good point, but again I'm just always skeptical. Hasler would probably be the pick of those in terms of adapting coaching styles to suit the players they inherited. Maguire simply copied Bellamy and surrounded a couple of absolute superstars with players that had limited but clearly defined roles. We'll never really know with the Walker brothers until they're thrown in the deep end with a different roster. Which is probably why looking to use them as assistant coaches would be the smart bet. I do admire them for their ballsy clean-slate thinking, but I keep coming back to the fact that they'd never be allowed to take that sort of risk in the NRL. And as I suspected [MENTION=8272]1910[/MENTION], "all but one" were not "produced" by the ISC, at least not in how you were hoping it to be taken. Obviously there are different tiers of competition that players work through, but IMO, for a player to be "produced" by a lower-tier comp would suggest that they were not as good as their similarly-aged peers and only learned and developed suitable skills through a thorough apprenticeship. It would appear that the vast majority of our team were only in the ISC because the NYC didn't yet exist, they were too young for it (and played for a lower-grade of an ISC club), or they'd outgrown the ISC and were waiting to get their shot in the NRL. Admittedly they would have been "developing" in the ISC, as it is much closer to NRL level than the NYC, but that isn't the same as "produced". The only two I would put in that category would be Reed and Gillett, both of whom were effectively unknowns (despite Gillett playing some U20s for us) until their performances for their ISC clubs matched up with an opportunity with the Broncos. And apologies if the comment about the players "being happy with losses" was insulting. It was a response to your post where you said that the Broncos players who played for the Jets loved it, and I immediately thought of a player like Sandow who would relish it. Of course players would, it sounds like it was much more fun, they're able to showcase their skills, etc. But I would prefer our players to play dour, percentage football if that's what it takes to win at the highest levels. Not chip kicks here, dodgy shoulder charges there, three field goals, self-gratification, and then losing the game by 11 points. Which as you made clear is not the case. [/QUOTE]

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