I thought it would be interesting to hear what you blokes think we need in our team. What kind of player should target with Jennings salary? Would you be looking to add a back like Braidon Burns or should we target a foward?
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IIRC, there was a bit a little while back regarding the club providing some of his contract money owing to the need for support with his family. Why we reached this point of cutting him off may be caused by him being found to be guilty re the charges he faces. Just a guess on that bit though. Other aspect may simply be that he & family could be moving and RL not part of his future at this point of time.
What is Reed Mahogany on? Players like him are going to need to be upgraded and Papalii too!
I highly doubt MJ was $400k. Who knows what the real figure is but no one outside the club (except MJ) would know.
Regardless, I've been really impressed with our recruitment recently. Also, the way in which we negotiate. So I feel confident the club will already know what this money is for, I suspect it's the reason for the urgent parting of ways.
Undoubtedly we will have to upgrade some players to keep the bulk of this squad together. And that's ok. Consider this, if we didn't have Opacic, Papali'i, Cartwright, Grieg etc and we needed to fill those positions with players performing at their level today, there's no way you get them for the prices we paid. That's great negotiating and scouting. At some stage we will need to meet the market for these players to keep them or let them walk elsewhere for more money.
To stay strong we will need to let some of them walk and replace them with new cheapies who overperform. Like how the Storm failed to match offers for Scott, McLean, Harris, Glasby, Griffin and Vunivalu. All premiership winners who would've been giving great value on unders.
That's a really good point
That's it. The key is having a stable spine in place. They lift everyone else's performances, which is why they seem like value buys. A stable spine that has time together & repetitions under its belt makes everyone else better.
You haven't included Perham.
It took them about a week to move Greig from Cowboys to Parra.
Interestingly, the "expendible" players are all given 1 year contracts. This gives the club a lot of flexibility and means that some are likely to depart next year if we upgrade the "keeper" players and/or buy in new players. I have faith that the club knows exactly what it is doing with the squad.
Agreed that the club is probably looking to fill MJs spot very soon.
Apparently the club has a policy of not offering contracts or extensions longer than 2 years. This is the cause of the delay with Nathan Brown apparently. He was told the club only gave out two year deals from now on but they've made an exception for Mitch Moses & Brownie now has his nose bent out of shape.
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