DemonJunkie

Yeah IMO we've got a base of young players that we can work with so as not to need to be hitting this draft that hard. If Windsor, Langford, Lindsay, JVR, Bowey, Turner, Rivers & Pickett isn't enough to build a team around then I don't know what is. Would've been nice to keep McVee in there but hey, we developed him from an unknown rookie so we can do that again. Our worry is going to be managing the exit of our 30+ crew so I'd agree picks should be used over the next 2 years for trading not drafting.

Pretty bad apparently. Cornes and King both said on Monday Flanders should chose Saints over us. Kane's exact reasoning was "new coach, best player wants to leave, McVee wants to leave, they're a basket case. And he won't have to do the drive to that awful training facility which I'm hearing more and more is a very big issue".

I think it's pretty clear contracts don't actually mean anything anymore. I didn't get too excited when we signed Kozzy for exactly that reason. It seems the "front-end" value of these deals now is the PR and marketing sugar hit from the announcement with the realistic viability of the contract being seen through very much a "tomorrow problem".