Iamback
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800k is most certainly not overs for kikau. Lets get that straight. Its a bargain really by the dogs.. in this current salary cap the top players in any position will be mins able to command close to a mil..
Same goes for api. 700k is not overs..the tigers got him for a bargain. The cheese signed with the chooks for 800... apis twice the player he is..
Its got nothing to do with being desperate, we offered within our means what we could afford.
But dont confuse that with offering overs lol.. Those two certainly arent on overs next year.. not compared to others.. its not 2017 amd 7mil salary cap anymore.
Id argue they are both about 100k under market value. Just were in an unfortunate position that no other clubs had that kimda coin to push prices up to market value. If more clubs had spare coin at the time theyd have both got 50-100k more and probs their market value.
This video here is pretty good. Uses the figures the NRL gives to clubs
4mins in. They list the top 5 2nd rowers
Fifita $975k
Wade Graham $730k
Kiks $728k
Frizzell $670k
Crichton $525k
Noticeable on there. No one from Storm on that list and Roosters have one at $500k
If the 2 most successful sides of recent time don't pay backrowers anything like that. Why would we?