St George Illawarra have landed a huge recruitment scalp by securing Australian star Keaon Koloamatangi to a long term near $5 million deal.
It is understood that Koloamatangi has told the Dragons he will join the club from 2027 on a five year deal. The contract is now in the cooling off period.
It is a clear circuit breaker for the Dragons who were in the market for a marquee player.
Koloamatangi’s current club South Sydney wanted to secure him as did Parramatta.
The Dragons though look set to land the prized recruit after gazumping the Eels and Rabbitohs with a monster five year deal
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Well he's far better than they are for starters. And we are trying to compete with other clubs. Nobody wanted Paulo or RCG. We paid them premium coin for nothing. Just like the Moses Dutch auctions, Canterbury pulled out at 1 million and the only other club by that time was The Tigers.
Here he is, the excuse Kings cousin...
Eli love the silver lining mate with every one we fail at lol.
Dont worry i try and do the same.
But far out we have been shocking at getting a big fish lol
Tino helicopter here we go.
Realistically what does Keon going to dragons actually do for them but ? It's a big name but they don't have anything around it. Pretty happy with what Ryles is building. If guys don't want to join that's on them
That's what makes this look even worse for the eels, there is no upside for keon going to dragons apart from money and length of contract. This is another massive fail by mon and our recruitment team, i could understand if we missed out to souths but not the dragons. Surely the club can see mon isn't getting the job done and has to go tomorrow.
He obviously values money over winning then 😂 eels offered 4 years 4 million he wanted more. Probably just not the guy you want at the club then
Mate I'm angry, we let Lomax go without getting someone we couldn't even get Garrick, Galvin, Keaon to come yet we couldn't keep Pezet for additional years. Yet this recruitment has the balls to say we never offered 4 years. The R&R from BA era had to fuck off completely.
Team is heading in the right direction and our cap space is great heading into 2027. We in a great spot tbh
We are in a good spot in terms of what we offer. That I agree with. All well and good having a state of the art COE, representative Halfback, up and coming coach who many have been impressed with great fan base and stadium, and getting them to the stages of nearly signing them too, so there is interest from players somewhat. But that final hurdle, whatever it is, needs to be investigated and dealt with. Unfortunately the arrows point to MON or Sarantinos or both.
*We are in a good spot in terms of what we offer"
I know you're a youngster and bit green so ill help you out because I like you LB and I know you're a die hard eels fan.
Players don't give a flying fuck about stadiums , fan base or COE facilities, they care about $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and going to a club that can help them make more $$$$$$$$ either through property investment or business investment opportunities .
The dragons have a number of property developers close to the club from the Wollongong area so no doubt KK was not only attracted to the terms the dragons offered but he would of been told of the off field opportunities that could be offered by joining the dragons.
When it comes to being a club that can offer players off field opportunities Parramatta are like a group 6 club in Dubbo .
Clubs don't win premierships because they have a nice stadium, big fan base or COE facilities, they win premiership by having the best people involved at club level and at Parramatta we are so far from having the best people running things that Jack Gibson and Alan Overton would be turning in their graves in disgust .
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