Jerome Luai has a week to seal the deal at the Chief's, 2 million per season tax free. He'll take it . He'll become the richest player in the league by the length of tge straight. D Brown would be earning 650 k after tax.
He'll become a free agent for 2027 - a gap.year essentially.
Should the club take Luai for a season, thus giving Lorenzo Talititiana another year to prepare.
Its looking more like Lorenzo is the man. Joash has played mainly fb in both cup and Nrl so it looks as if Ryles not pinning his hopes on him.
Would you take Luai??
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Thats assuming
a) we have cap space to afford his asking price which would theoretically be high, even for a gap year
b) he would want to come to Parra
He won't be offered $2 million tax free. They're saying he'd have to earn $2.2m in Australia to be equivalent to $1.2m tax free in PNG.
They aren't going to pay him more (or much more) than his current contract, it's just that he won't have to pay tax on it (and that in and of itself will still have a LOT of caveats attached to it - but that's the narrative as to why he'd even consider this).
But yeah, no one is paying Luai $2m/year...there's just a lot of people reading the news who don't grasp the whole "equivalent salary including tax" thing.
No. We cannot keep changing our spine every year. We need to build consistency in our spine. We blood Lorenzo in the 6 around rd 15 when our injured players come back.
Yes. Volkman and Pezet can form a killer NSW cup partnership that wins us NSW cup haha.
NSW cup would have a very strong team by the end of the year if we get some luck with injuries. Lots of players have had to step up in NRL so they will come back better players, and even the younger/JF players have had to play bigger minutes or step up in Cup which will help. Obviously more injuries will happen so it will never be full strength.
Then you have Beattie, Talagi, Petrus, Koina, Popo, Bamblett, Leulai, Vaiveia, Miller, Alamdine and Fletcher in JF waiting to step up when the opportunity arises.
Like Lokeni goes onto the bench after running 200m and making 38 tackles with 0 mised on the weekend. Look at the talent in those JF players.
That's really quite stong indeed. We have to be losing a couple of those youngsters, especially the ones at 21-22 years old range in the off-season. Which is a shame.
Latu just confirmed ACL no? Heard it somehwere.
Also where do you see Richie settling baring injuries? I thought he'd play next to Nanva but seeing cup highlights he was right wing. If he gets a run there surely he'll be inline for NRL?
Yep your right. The club need to ensure they retain the right players because we cannot keep everyone. I felt they made the right decisons last year in which 21 years old they let go since they are not JF eligble anymore. In the list I put below, only Leulai, Vaiveia, Miller and Alamdine are 21 years old. I personally rate Leulai over Vaiveia at centre despite eels using Vaiveia in cup and Leulai in JF. Hope they give him a chance because depending on how he goes then we made want to keep him. Alamadine I have given up on so he can leave. Vaiveia I dont rate so he can leave too. Miller I cannot see him fitting in the modern game as he is too big. Lets see how fit he is by the end of the season.
I think the better questions will be if they keep someone like Mataele who is a good back up NRL player but would you rather develop a forward with higher potential in cup. Tupou will end the year in RM.
Oh yea I said that Latu may have done his ACL in a comment. Not confirmed but we shall see. If it is true, Beattie will start on the edge in nsw cup next week. Petrus probably even closer to cup as well.
I am not sure on Richie. I just hope he stays injury free. He is still not 100% as his knee looked to cause him trouble during the game. He had bone bruising which is why he had been unavaliable.
That is actually a decent Cup team. With depth with the SG ball boys moving up. I do hope Coinakis get NSW Cup time as he would be an ideal #3 Hooker for us next year.
Not sure what they are waiting for. Coinakis is a big body and strong defender. Luke and Smitz are RM players. Coinkis and Hudson don't deserve to be sharing minutes in JF either. They are better than that. They compliment each other well to. Coinakis is a solid defender whilst Hudson loves to run.
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