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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3372173, member: 9052"] I've thought about it before as well i.e. how do shit clubs rise up the ladder if they're constantly getting picked off... and the only real answer is improving the situation for the playing squad to make it a team they want to play for. There are examples of teams that have risen up from the bottom - Knights after 3x back to back wooden spoons jumped up to top 8 status on the back of taking a risk with Ponga. That subsequently landed them Pearce and Klemmer, and they also went out and grabbed a promising coach from a good system in O'Brien. They now live around that top 8 area, but it's on them to keep rising. - Titans have somewhat made the jump to relevancy on the back of picking off Fifi and Tino, possibly knowing that they had a group of juniors coming through who were all spine players (Sexton, Brimson, Campbell and Bryant). - Panthers over time have come up from the bottom on the back of astute senior player recruiting and backing their junior development. It helps that it coincided with having a generational halfback coming through their juniors as well. There would be a few others from previous years, but I think first and foremost you need a star player that can win you games and make you relevant, as that will bring interest from players to join the team... Tigers had that in Teddy, and Moses to an extent, but they couldn't convince them to stay and they've been in a heap since. From there coaching needs to show proof that what they are working towards is successful and can make the team competitive. We are still lacking in the spine, which doesn't make us all that desirable... that kind of suggests that Haas as good as he is, is still only really a support player. We had a rolled gold spine star in Walsh that could've been the player we build the club around, but they let him slip. Walsh in our current team would be the attacking focal point that we don't currently have. Our next possible rolled gold spine player looks to be Mozer, but you don't just become CS9 overnight. Game managing from dummy half is a different ball game altogether and there's only been a couple in the history of the NRL to do it. Even Harry as good as he is, is probably not a player that can do it all on his own. I've left Ezra out, because he looks a running attacking ball player, rather than genuine game manager... so we would still need the guy with a 10/10 kicking game to get us around the field and tell everyone where to be in order to ice the close games. I'm not sure we have that in the juniors coming through... I hope we go hard to bring Walsh back to Brisbane, because he would bring instant credibility. However I feel he will be one of the priority targets for Redcliffe. [/QUOTE]

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