Everyone is asking "where's the fucking money going???"
It could be going on Freight....RCG freight?...Guth freight?...JoeO freight?
Gotta other likely *packages"
A few posters have said this stinks...that there is a stench.
\I think it is paying freight that is stinking the joint up...a whole lot of freight
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Well that would not make sense considering both Gutho and RCG were off contract in 2025 as was Ofahengaue.
Not like Matto where he has a year left if we move him he have to pitch in. If we decided to pitch in for 2026 as well for Gutho and RCG when their contracts ended this year that is purely idiotic.
Paid out some freight this year makes sense. Like Gutho on $900k and pay $250k of that to him at the Dragons? Who knows but Gutho, RCG, Cartwright and Ofahengaue all had deals end this year. Not sure what entirely happens with Lane's salary as he had a year left as well.
No one really knows wether any player has freight on them...We say stuff like titans have to pay freight on Tino, so we are probs paying it too
But when they are off-contract, there shouldn't be any freight on them for 2026 since they didn't have a contract to pay out for 2026. Then people could say we added 2026 to move them on, but seems RCG was fine leaving and Gutho after getting a great deal from Dragons left without too much hassel either so not like we begged them to leave so sweetened them up with adding an extra year of freight.
Not like NAS who has a deal til 2028, whether he goes Melbourne have to pay something til then unless the club he goes to pays full freight.
It seemed RCG was fine leaving, but what if it was because we offered 2yrs freight to whoever takes him. If we only do one he takes up his PO and we'd be stuck with him on big money; We may be still paying .
I don't know if this is a thing but.....
Well no as numerous clubs came for RCG, adding an extra year of salary to pay when only contracted for one makes no sense as unlike Matterson, RCG had suitors so it wasn't like we added in money for 2026 just to beg him to go.
Plus GC gave him a new deal, not like they just took the deal we gave him. Unlike when we signed RCG and Waqa Blake in 2019 from Penrith where we took their deals in complete with Penrith pitching in.
Perhaps numerous clubs came a callin' precisely because 2yrs of solid freight was on the table
Happy to leave and not activate po's for the same reason.
The club could release a total freight figure without naming names or how many players on the truck, but it ain't gonna happen. We may be surprised at the amount.
Where is the money going?
Well we weren't desperate to get rid of RCG, it was simply you won't be extended for 2026 onwards. We pushed and he was keen to go. Dragons were only wanting 2 years not 3. If we offered more freight wouldn't they take 3 years?
Why do you think Ryles we wasn't desperate to get rid of RCG, He has gone shit at Titan...he would have held us back
Maybe Dragqueens only offered 2 because thats what we offered,...2 yrs of Fedex
Because there were clubs after him and he left pretty quickly. He had always talked about either going to Queensland or England in the future of his career and has done both. When there are clubs after a player you are not desperate. Plus if we were paying 2 years of freight as you seem to suggest GC accepted (we only offered 2 years of freight) why don't GC keep him for the rest of his deal than if they are getting him cheap? It is because he signed a new 3 year deal with them and any money that we were paying of his recent deal is already done from this year.
It is really not that hard to understand. Very, very rarely do you see teams add extra years of compensation, if you see it at all. Only time ever i have seen it is Penrith when we got RCG accepted an extra of paying but that was due to him having such a massive contract it was more attractive for us to take on.
It is not like RCG had 3 years left. He had 1 year left that was it. No reason to suggest we said to clubs "Hey here is an extra 2 years of paying for him if you take him now". He was given permission to go and Dragons talked to him straight away.
Ryan Matterson, that's an example of us being desperate and putting forward salary to get rid of him.
Lane's salary would go to zero. He retired.
The only players left with existing contracts for 2026 who were signed under Arthur are Matterson and Hands.
We are paying zero 'freight' for any other player.
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