Parramatta have tabled Keaon Koloamatangi a monster four-year offer in a bid to prise the representative forward out of South Sydney.
The Roosters are also monitoring the situation, given forward Angus Crichton is off contract and considering a switch to rugby at the end of next season. Perth also inquired about 27-year-old Koloamatangi’s plans, but were told he wants to remain in Sydney.
However, the Eels are shaping as a genuine threat to South Sydney’s bid to retain the former NSW and Tonga star. Sources not authorised to speak publicly told this masthead the Eels have weighed in with a four-year offer worth seven figures a season.
Parramatta officials, including coach Jason Ryles, have met with Koloamatangi and his manager.
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He's probably only worth less than a mill if we weren't in a battle with 3 other clubs to get him.
I like him as a player but not for the price.
Surely we can identify 2 x 18-20 Year old forwards that will potentially play Origin and offer them $500k a season each ?
I doubt that JB, identifying those youngsters and paying them 500k would be prohibitive odds.....
When you think of it and forgetting the actual individual (which is subjective) any forward/player that you buy for $1m and is not already an Origin Player would be a punt of no certainty.
Of course there are plenty of players that have played Origin and you would not feed.....Matto is an example, would you have identified him as a youngster, plenty did! didn't mean anything at the end....there's plenty similar.
One final point, budgeting what you pay for a player is not a full assesment....its like making any investment, the alternatives and the affordability make it so i.e. whether we pay 500k or a Million depends on what choices do we have, spending 500k and leaving the rest in the bank and getting nothing in comparison. So getting the player you want has to be the objective....there are plenty we want but we cannot get them or even in some cases retain them.
Dyllan Brown subjectively would have stayed with Parra on say 950, he was paid 1.4m alternatively, do we have a replacement for him at 950? NO and I would not have paid a cent more than 950, I think he subjectively did not warrant higher but unless we can find a better cheaper alternative we are weaker than we were! Untill then we grab someone we think is ok at 1m and hope like shit he justifies the price.
Poppa I just don't think a forward is worth near halfback money, unless he is of Payne Haas's calabre.
With salary cap rising, the normal range is going to be around that for a rep quality forward. Only going to get worse
I think Jack Williams showed as last season that you don't have to be a 'Rep Quality' forward to match it with the best, he wasn't our only forward to do this...... so why are we expecting/wanting to pay forwards absurd money unless they are genuine match winners like Haas ?
JB, you chose wisely my friend (JW) and the proof will be in the pudding by end season. If JW wins the Thornett medal again (lets assume JW is on 500k and will go to 700k if he does). KK will be on 1m and lessor a player? hard to say, usually 9 forwards in every 17. The market will give you the answer, pricing may change as Eli points out and JW goes to 1.2m to be retained.....KK still on 1m?
The answer is to be invested or uninvested, your less costly stocks may seem to be the best, but somewhere in your portfolio you will have a CBA or a BHP that gives you a "spine". Remember we are talking subjectively and not judgementally.
Who's to say Kaeon doesn't get an injury that prevents him from performing at his $1million a season price tag and he ends up being a $500k player, it's happened plenty of times before ?
So in conclusion, you are happy to be buying stocks at their peak price hoping for improvement with the potential or likelihood of them actually declining ?
Agree JB, personally, I think Williams is a better player, and if I was Williams I would be really pissed if we signed KK on more than double what he is getting.
Even the fact it's out there: $1m a season, would cause some to look at their pay pocket and think long and hard in their private moments. Hopefully, they just laugh and call it "International Prop Money" lol. But comparisons are dangerous thought bombs. Wonder what Hopgood and Williams might think if they play prop: are we getting ripped off a bit at around half-price? Are we really putting in that much less?
It's like on here, we want to be the Broncos, Dogs, Roosters, etc. Buying big names. We equate that to good management or success and go into a nuclear meltdown in the foetal position when we don't sign the names. When really a lot of it is just how many Benfactors, on the side, can pour the most off the cap in the shadows. It's like someone bragging how big their muscles are when it's all steroids secretly. Big deal. I wouldn't complain if we were in their shoes, and want Benefactors in the game, but we need to be realistic, fair dinkum.
Titans sign big names. How's that working out? 13th, 14th, 14th, 16th last four years. Penrith aren't dopes. All they do is lose big names, year after year since 2019, and not replace them with big names. Result? A four-peat. Second-best run in history and since the Saints. The real secret to success is in the culture and the environment. Just listen to Ivan Cleary. He literally states that.
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