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  Snakey - Sack Dylan Brown May 31, 2016 at 3:09pm

  Its pretty simple, peats was not in BAs long term plans.
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  20eel13 May 31, 2016 at 3:15pm

  Neither is Gordon
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  Poupou Escobar May 31, 2016 at 3:19pm

  Have you considered these players might be unwanted? Just because they are fan favourites doesn't mean they are favourites of the coaching staff.
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  The Offside Eel May 31, 2016 at 3:21pm

  Peats was most likely going to move onnext year. Paulo already leaving. Gordon was always just a 1 year option to ease bevan in so now that the season is done we are useing of possible only players who will be here next year
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    Roger smith > The Offside Eel May 31, 2016 at 5:22pm

    Offside ,think foran might have changed gordons departure
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  CP May 31, 2016 at 3:24pm

  Freeing up money for Seggy? 
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  Raptor Jesus May 31, 2016 at 3:34pm

  None of this rubbish makes sense. It is an immense stuff up. Watmough alone should have covered 575k as his contract was 900k (with illegal TPAs included), but the NRL played rulesy and forced us to unload double the cap space as it has already been "paid", not that this ever gave us an advantage!
  
  Watmough was injured in February and should have been back dated as far, the NRL played hard ball to double penetrate us with punishments. So we released Peats (reportedly on 500k with inflated TPAs) and Ryan Morgan (who may have been outside the top 25, we don't know because they never list the official top 25).
  
  So now we have now released 1.4 million dollars in cap space just to save 575K of the salary cap! Awesome accounting guys! Good work Schubert!
  
  And now we have to release Paulo (because he's upset the media is jumping on him for associating with criminals) and Gordon (because apparently if we save 200k in 2016, somehow that lets us sign Hayne who TOTALLY WON'T cost any more than 200k next year /s)
  
  Watmough 900k
  Peats 500k
  Paulo 180k
  Gordon 200k (estimate)
  Morgan 80k (minimum wage estimate?)
  
  TOTAL: 1.86 MILLION DOLLARS
  
  But the NRL wants us to suffer so we only save half of each contract, as the other half has been paid. So its more like:
  
  Watmough 450k
  Peats 250k
  Paulo 90k (awesome savings there guys)
  Gordon 100k (awesome savings again, we totally don't need a fullback)
  Morgan 40k (may or may not count)
  
  Total: 930k

  
  The breach was 575 thousand dollars
  
  
  930k - 575k = 355k left in the kitty.
  
  We also need 5 minimum wage players to take the top 25 spots of the 5 players released, so 5 x 40k = 200k. (only half a season to pay new players)
  
  We should have roughly 155k left to spend in 2016...provided we haven't gone over the cap by more money.
  • CuddlePuffKenny > Raptor Jesus May 31, 2016 at 3:37pm

    Incorrect! For a number of reasons. One being the salary cap goes up by 1Million next season aswell
  • Omygindahouse > Raptor Jesus May 31, 2016 at 4:50pm

    His talking about 2016 so it sounds about right; what doesn't make sense is how NRL registered Jennings contract if they found out we are over the cap; didn't they clear us before Round 1 or even Auckland Nines
  • Omygindahouse > Raptor Jesus May 31, 2016 at 4:52pm

    If we have 1.86 million for next year or more depending on selling players won't be worth getting Hayne who is worth 1 million plus