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Message: [QUOTE="Lockysillegitimatechild, post: 3635840, member: 8814"] The problem isn't that we don't develop "solid" players, it's that the media talks about our 16 and 17 year olds like they are Darren lockyer or Allan langers clones. That stuffs us up in a few ways. 1. These young guys actually start to believe this and don't put in the hard yards to keep developing their game in the reserves 2. We can't keep them because other teams also buy into the hype and pay overs to buy them 3. Other teams keep their juniors easier because ours are getting all the attention and all the money thrown at them. Salary cap is a joke. We wouldn't have to pay what we did for piakura for example if he was playing for the tigers. Coby black and mozer are gonna be other examples I bet. Guaranteed there are players their age in their positions who are far better but we have hardly heard of them at all and the team they play for pays half the amount to keep them. Salary cap is a false economy that is punishing us big time. It's took the panthers 2 premierships and 3 minor premierships to start being under the Salary cap pressure we were under before we even made the gf ffs, we finished 9th the year before and we had to let go of 3 of our starting 17 haha [/QUOTE]

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