Between this thread and one the one about Kyle Stanley it is getting bloody ridiculous all this speculating what players we are going to sign next season. I am feed up with it getting excited at the prospect of this player or this player and it has all turned out to be stuff cows and horses leave behind.
Third Party Sponsorship! I was listening to Bruno Cullen on the BSB this morning and he said that they have about 29 Third Party Sponsorship deals registered with the NRL. Plus the salary cap goes up with some concessions for various things such as long serving players and marquee players. It also helps that they have released about half a dozen players.
Being such a strong brand name in a one team town gives them many advantages, including being able to spend $24M on football operations as opposed to the $14M other clubs are spending.
"Just one correction Eels 2025, he never left Penrith to be the main man.
He left for the money. There was /has never been issue with his relationship with Cleary.
Now Eels 2025 I am interested where you got that information from, do you intuitively…"
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Being such a strong brand name in a one team town gives them many advantages, including being able to spend $24M on football operations as opposed to the $14M other clubs are spending.