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Message: [QUOTE="Je$ter, post: 2121053, member: 1810"] The way NRL clubs, schools and players themselves train junior nowadays, it comes as no suprise the amount of excellent young talent coming through the NRL. I don't think the ESL poaching is as big a problem as it's made out to be, tbh most of the plaeyrs that do leave are just first graders - guys who can be replaced. Parramatta for example, they lose Tim Smith who imo on his day is in top 5 halves in the comp, and replace him with Kris Keating, an excellent youngster. Penrith are going to lose Priddis, but have one of the best young talents in the game, Masada Iosefa, who has already been on a tour with the Kiwis! The NRL needs to look at 3rd party sponsorships, because i believe this is where the real money lies. For example, if Nike wants to pay Locky 150,000 a year to appear in advertisments etc, maybe make only 10% of this sponsorship count towards the cap? Like Hammo said, the sky is definitely not falling in terms of 'great' players going OS. However, the nrl needs to look at ways other than raising the cap, which aren't going to put a financial or on field burden to clubs. [/QUOTE]

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