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Message: [QUOTE="ozzball, post: 3292450, member: 8242"] I agree totally mate and this merry-go-round of young talent being nurtured by the club only to be lost is something that I, like many others, have whinged about for years. But the more I think about it and try to figure out the reasons why this happens with such regularity and we're forced to read catchlines like "Broncos lose young gun half to *******", the more convinced I become that it's like fighting a many-headed monster. There's no doubt that our player retention system has been redundant for years and staffed by people who were happy to rest on the fact that players wanted to come to the Broncos (buyers' market) but over recent times other forces have come into play. Can we consider the fact that the sports "press" have this thirst for inflating the egos of new talent by comparing them with the greats of the past, "this guy is the new Billy Slater" .. "so-and-so is from the same mold as Darren Lockyer" .. this, in turn, gives the player managers more ammo when contracts come up for renewal ... "worth x because he's been touted as a future Kangaroo" ... more press "Broncos cap stretched to breaking, set to lose emerging star" ... questions asked at coach interviews ... social media meltdowns and the wheel spins out of control. Then a young bloke like Dearden is packed off to Townsville with his pockets jingling only to produce little more than average performances to date. Rinse and repeat. Hope that made some kinda sense, thanks for listening. [/QUOTE]

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