The pre-season thread - 2022

[cowboyman]

I tend to agree with you, every week I read about a player that is going to be the next best thing. In reality how many have actually turned into something, none.

Slots beat me to it but I was going to say DSaf has come through and improved year on year. I thought he was just a big lump of a lad in the U20’s.

When Ponga was first mooted by his old man of trying to come down a year early, talk on the cowboys forum was they wanted the ‘good’ twin in JSaf as a swap deal. He looked much more likely to be a regular first grader than his brother.

Other then that it’s been slim pickings for a while despite all the hype of juniors. For whatever reason they just haven’t been able to make the step up.

 

[Frank McWilliams]

Makes you wonder if it’s just lack of talent or failure to develop in formulating years

 

[Sir Galahad]

a systemic failure to identify talent appears to have been the issue.