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Sticking with the kids.
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[QUOTE="Burg, post: 2451863, member: 1785"] Actually I agree with the article. A great many posters in this forum and others all cry out to bring up fresh talent from our junior ranks, no doubt with the hope that these players will turn out to be the next superstar. Now on the surface this is totally logical as every superstar obviously started a young nobody. However looking deeper you start to see that if you only have one policy then you are setting yourself up to fail. Firstly the Broncos have shown over the past couple of years what a youth only policy brings, early season enthusiasm and late season fade outs. Young players run out of legs mid to late season unless they are the exception rather than the rule. For example you can have one or two young players, even in key positions if you have "old heads" around. As it's been said young men don't win marathons. Now I am not suggesting a clean out of playing roster, but to totally exclude looking at any external player is not only folly but almost arrogant. As much as a fan as I am of Normans, he doesn't appear top have the "god given talent" of vision that is mandatory for a half or 5/8. Wallace, as I have said many times before if a defensive half not an attacking one. Partner him with someone like S.Johnston, Marshall, Thurston or of course Lockyer and he'd be great, but expect him to create everything and wont happen, because it's not his style and he shouldn't be criticised for being something he is not. Sorry to say but although Hunt has possibly better "vision" than Norman, he is a fair way of being NRL standard as an attacking half. I look around at our entire squad and I'm really struggling to find the next "Club Legend" with the possible exception of Glenn, McGuire and Yow Yeh (depending on how he returns). I fear without looking outside the club to bolster our playing ranks, we have lean times ahead. In saying that, maybe sub 10th spot finish is what is required to change the policy. [/QUOTE]
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