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Message: [QUOTE="Locky’s Left Boot, post: 3067900, member: 9358"] These stories are always such a beat up. Considering the amount of league players in SE QLD and the limited amount of opportunities through the development systems of an NRL club, there is always going be a large influx of players who don’t get given an opportunity right away. It just makes young players coming through coming across as entitled. Sure be disappointed if you don’t get a gig but if you are good enough, you will get an opportunity with someone. It’s a numbers game, it’s not like the Broncos can give out 10,000 development contracts to appease every single player coming through in the general region. Another pet peeve is how we constantly hear year after year how we let Slater, Cronk, Smith, Munster and JT slip through our fingers when they were in our backyard. It’s not like these players were all out and out instant superstars at 15 years of age. If they were you would have had all 16 NRL teams make plays at them. And maybe, just maybe the journey their careers took, dealing with disappointments, having to leave home, work twice as hard to be noticed, etc, helped build mental resolve and a burning desire to prove people wrong that contributed significantly to the players they eventually became. Whose to say they would have developed into superstars of the game under our regime and having everything handed to them on a platter? [/QUOTE]

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