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[Incorrect]

Dean Ritchie on NRL Tonight said that Arthur wants Hayne next year and Hayne wants to stay. Reckons he'll sign for another year.

All well and good but surely it's up to the new coach as to whether he wants him.....

 

[T-Boon]

All well and good but surely it's up to the new coach as to whether he wants him.....

I do.

 

[emjaycee]

I reckon we lost him when that s**t hung him out to dry. She put him on the guilty list (while trying to make out she wasn't). I think he knew then he was going.

That was about 18 months before he left.. or maybe 16 months before.

 

[JohnStoppafarty]

That was about 18 months before he left.. or maybe 16 months before.

And? He still had a contract to fulfill. One that he said he would honour.

 

[emjaycee]

And? He still had a contract to fulfill. One that he said he would honour.

I was just commenting that everyone knew he was leaving nearly 18 months before he did. It wasnt the scoop T Boon kinda claimed.

 

[T-Boon]

That was about 18 months before he left.. or maybe 16 months before.

I mean I knew we were playing our cards extremely badly about 18 months before the DV stuff happened.

 

[hineyrulz]

I mean I knew we were playing our cards extremely badly about 18 months before the DV stuff happened.

Pretty sure he had been upgraded before the DV case. I’m as critical as anyone of the club but there is no way you can blame losing Semi on club.

Blame his shit taste in women.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Pretty sure he had been upgraded before the DV case. I’m as critical as anyone of the club but there is no way you can blame losing Semi on club.

Blame his shit taste in women.

Ping @hineyrulz. Someone has hacked your account and started posting sensible things.

 

[hineyrulz]

Ping @hineyrulz. Someone has hacked your account and started posting sensible things.

FFS!

Loosers!!

 

[T-Boon]

Pretty sure he had been upgraded before the DV case. I’m as critical as anyone of the club but there is no way you can blame losing Semi on club.

Blame his shit taste in women.

I just clearly remember there was an opportunity for us to buy Semi's loyalty to the club and we chose to just keep him on a cheap contract. Semi would have kept that in the memory bank. It was short sighted.

Who knows, probably he would have gone anyway.

 

[strider]

I just clearly remember there was an opportunity for us to buy Semi's loyalty to the club and we chose to just keep him on a cheap contract. Semi would have kept that in the memory bank. It was short sighted.

Who knows, probably he would have gone anyway.

You are part of the retention committee? ... im not, so i dont really know what is going on other than the sometimes unreliable news reports

 

[Gronk]

I just clearly remember there was an opportunity for us to buy Semi's loyalty to the club and we chose to just keep him on a cheap contract. Semi would have kept that in the memory bank. It was short sighted.

Who knows, probably he would have gone anyway.

Semi's manager forced our hand. He wanted a contract in place (NRL, Top14) before it went to court because he knew that Semi's worth may diminish if the case went south. We needed to offer Semi possibly the richest contract in NRL history (for an outside back) and cross our fingers that he didn't get rubbed out of the game for a year or more. We also don't know what terms his manager was demanding. We do know that Toulon was not bothered with his DV charge and therefore would be paid notwithstanding the result.

It's easy to be wise in hindsight, but imagine if we signed him for $800k+ and then he was found guilty of kicking a pregnant woman in a DV charge. Worse, imagine if that player was sidelined and we were forced to put his contract money aside. Gee the deathriders would have loved that.

 

[Gary Gutful]

I don't know anything about the Semi situation. I just know that the club f**ked up.

 

[Happy MEel]

I just clearly remember there was an opportunity for us to buy Semi's loyalty to the club and we chose to just keep him on a cheap contract. Semi would have kept that in the memory bank. It was short sighted.

Who knows, probably he would have gone anyway.

Is this the kind of loyalty you’re referring to?

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www...e-parramatta-fiji-/1dxj5cyq0xm141l4ucrb2o1hov

I loved Semi as a player but I question his so called loyalty to the eels.

 

[Noise]

The club did pretty much all they could with Semi. He would have bailed earlier IMO but we dug our heels in (and rightly so).

 

[eel01s]

The club did pretty much all they could with Semi. He would have bailed earlier IMO but we dug our heels in (and rightly so).

That's how I see it too.

 

[Soren Lorenson]

Hasn't he already moved clubs in French rugby for more coin?

 

[Noise]

Hasn't he already moved clubs in French rugby for more coin?

Yep, from Toulon to Bordeaux

 

[Gronk]

Hasn't he already moved clubs in French rugby for more coin?

Is that a blight on his character ?

 

[Soren Lorenson]

Is that a blight on his character ?

No, not at all. I mentioned it in the context of the conversation which was about the circumstances of his leaving. The problem is with some of these players (not necessarily Semi in this case) is that they say things like I would have loved to stay or something similar, but their actions are totally contrary to that. Personally i wouldn't think twice if a player just came out and said, yes, I left because of the cash. But they never do.