There is a preferred tactic when it comes to making astute buys in the NRL player market. COREY PARKER runs through some tantalising names for struggling clubs to consider signing.
A key part of recruitment for struggling teams is targeting players from successful clubs. Guys who know what winning habits look like. Who are getting paid unders and are gradually pushed out by salary cap pressure.
When you’re the Dragons, Bulldogs or Wests Tigers and you ask yourself, ‘What do we want to stand for?’, you need to bring in guys who have demonstrated over a long period of time in the NRL that they can play consistent, quality football.
The struggling teams typically have too many guys who aren’t consistent first-graders and then young players who are being exposed to unsuccessful habits. They’re the polar opposite of a club like Melbourne, which is why other clubs are always lining…