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Ausguy

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Weaponhead said:
Fifita is our leading tryscorer and in a side with a poor attacking record he provides a lot of spark. Cap management is all about getting value. We have big money tied up in two older forwards who are proven performers but won't get any better and are starting to miss games. Is it good management to lose the best attacking prop in the game? Hard to say unless you know the cap position.
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Post of the year.
 
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Originally Posted by Weaponhead
Fifita is our leading tryscorer and in a side with a poor attacking record he provides a lot of spark. Cap management is all about getting value. We have big money tied up in two older forwards who are proven performers but won't get any better and are starting to miss games. Is it good management to lose the best attacking prop in the game? Hard to say unless you know the cap position.


I don't know the cap position but know Toops and BK were a waste of money. Fifita will go and Sharks will imply he is greedy and went for the money. Let's be honest , would he be better off at the Roosters, Souths or Wallabies? What would you do? He is neither a local nor a Sharks fan. He might stay if he wants to play HB or box. I have seen him box and he won't earn from that.

Our twenties never deliver. NSW Cup win and nothing comes from there. 12 months on Fifita will be gone and we will pick up someone like Bryan Norrie.
 
Griffoshark66

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webShark said:
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Originally Posted by Weaponhead
Fifita is our leading tryscorer and in a side with a poor attacking record he provides a lot of spark. Cap management is all about getting value. We have big money tied up in two older forwards who are proven performers but won't get any better and are starting to miss games. Is it good management to lose the best attacking prop in the game? Hard to say unless you know the cap position.


I don't know the cap position but know Toops and BK were a waste of money. Fifita will go and Sharks will imply he is greedy and went for the money. Let's be honest , would he be better off at the Roosters, Souths or Wallabies? What would you do? He is neither a local nor a Sharks fan. He might stay if he wants to play HB or box. I have seen him box and he won't earn from that.

Our twenties never deliver. NSW Cup win and nothing comes from there. 12 months on Fifita will be gone and we will pick up someone like Bryan Norrie.
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I go into a dark depressed state each Sunday night at the prospect of going back to a job that i f**king hate each Monday. This post is nearly enough to send me over the edge.
 
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The third party deals from friends of friends of uncle nick are hard to beat. Fair point from webshark about easts being a very attractive place to go. Footy wise best team in the comp. Non footy, he will be set for life. Just ask Freddy.
 
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I go into a dark depressed state each Sunday night at the prospect of going back to a job that i f**king hate each Monday. This post is nearly enough to send me over the edge.
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Sorry mate. Is it the post or something in it you disagree with or simply you agree?
 
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The ARU seem to be stepping up things a bit.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...-lost-to-the-nrl/story-fni3gol8-1226835440523


DAVE Smith, what is the National Rugby League going to do about this photo?

Proving NSW and Test prop Andrew Fifita is well and truly serious about a switch to rugby union, the tearaway forward was spotted by The Daily Telegraph yesterday watching the NSW Waratahs open their Super 15 rugby account against the Western Force at Allianz Stadium.

Perched high up in the members’ area alongside his advisers, Fifita may well have been taking notes on how he plans to work alongside his new rah-rah teammates.

That is, if the NRL refuses to step in and ensure Fifita isn’t the next *superstar to join an increasing and worrying list of marquee players opting to join the rival code.

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Having already lost Israel Folau, Benji Marshall, Sonny Bill Williams and Sam Burgess to rugby union, the NRL can ill-afford to watch Fifita join the exodus. Not even 24 hours after he scored a try in the Sharks’ final trial against the Wests Tigers on Saturday night, Fifita appeared intrigued and engaged in the Waratahs’ style of play against the Force.

Fifita arrived at Allianz Stadium unannounced yesterday. Not even Wallabies coach Ewen McKenzie, who was seated just metres away, was aware of the 24-year-old’s decision to attend the match.

Off contract with Cronulla at the end of the 2014 NRL season, Fifita is at the centre of a multi-million-dollar bidding war.

Fifita has made no secret of the fact that his No.1 priority is to stay at the Sharks, the club that re-ignited his NRL career after he was let go by the Tigers.

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However, following a breakthrough season in 2013, which included State of Origin and Test debuts, his stocks have risen to the point where he is now the hottest property on the NRL open market.

Predictably, rugby league heavyweights the Sydney Roosters and South Sydney are planning to go all out for the World Cup-winning prop.

But the wildcard is rugby union, evident by the sight of Fifita sitting *inside the home of the Waratahs at Allianz Stadium yesterday.

Fifita is no stranger to union, having played with the ACT Brumbies’ academy team as a teenager.

He also met with McKenzie over dinner late last year, and the Wallabies coach is in no doubt Fifita would make a successful cross-code switch.

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The lure of the 2015 World Cup and a rare Olympics appearance as a member of the sevens rugby team are also lures the NRL simply can’t compete with.

However, the NRL does have the power to assist financially, which was proven by Williams’ decision to remain with the Roosters for one final season this year.

Fifita has told his Sharks teammates he wants to make a decision on his future before the opening round of the NRL season, which is just 10 days away.

And with the legal row surrounding his management issues all but sorted, it has paved the way for Fifita to make a call.

Rugby league or rugby union?

But in between strategic meetings and seminars on how to increase club memberships and sponsorship earnings, what the chief executive of the NRL really needs to be asking is: Can the game really afford to let another marquee player walk out the door?
 
bad boy bubby

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851 said:
The ARU seem to be stepping up things a bit.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...-lost-to-the-nrl/story-fni3gol8-1226835440523
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Newton's 3rd Law applies here

in this case lets call them "paper law wars"
it all depends on what you read, personally i do not believe any of them.




Cronulla's Andrew Fifita likely to turn his back on rugby and stay in the NRL

Test prop Andrew Fifita is set to remain in the NRL after resolving a management dispute that would have made it more financially appealing for him to switch codes.

Fifita was reluctant to sign with an NRL club while under contract to SFX's Daryl Mather until the end of 2014 as he would have had to give his manager and the company 8 per cent of any deal he signs this year.

With numerous NRL clubs, including Sydney Roosters, South Sydney and St George Illawarra, reportedly prepared to offer him four- or five-year deals worth up to $750,000 per season, Fifita would have had to pay out significantly more than $100,000 in management fees.

If he failed to do so, the NRL may have refused to register his new contract as it did with the four-year deal Issac Luke negotiated with South Sydney in 2011 until the Kiwi hooker paid compensation to his managers, Chris and Gavin Orr.

Fifita has been receiving financial advice from Greg Willett, the former manager of Braith Anasta and Craig Gower, who is no longer an accredited NRL agent.

Mather is a member of the Player Agent Accreditation Scheme and would have had its support to block any deal Fifita negotiated with an NRL club before the end of this year.

However, the Cronulla prop would not have had such problems if he had signed with the Australian Rugby Union and is understood to have seriously been considering that option as he was reluctant to wait until 2015 to resolve his future.

Willett, an accountant, also handles the financial affairs of Wallabies coach Ewen McKenzie and he met Fifita informally before Christmas.

After starring for Cronulla in the Auckland Nines, the giant prop may have even interested the ARU as a possible target for the Australian Sevens team to compete at the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil.

Coincidentally, the Rabbitohs and Roosters view Fifita as a replacement for their star rugby union-bound forwards, Sam Burgess and Sonny Bill Williams.

Sharks officials insist they are confident of retaining Fifita but the Dragons are also believed to be keen on the 24-year-old, who broke into the NSW and Australian teams last season.

Fifita told reporters after Saturday night's 28-22 trial loss to Wests Tigers that he was waiting for Willett to receive details of the offers before deciding his future. "I've just changed managers so I will wait until he gets it all on paper," Fifita said. "I will have a look at them and do what is best for my family. The Sharks have been very good to me and made me into the person I am today.

"I arrived here at Cronulla as part of a package deal. I will always be thankful to the Sharks no matter what I decide because they got me to where I am today."



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...-in-the-nrl-20140223-33a7y.html#ixzz2uCMcd0SH
 
cb4

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Question to the forum: If you could re-sign Fifita, but lose Wade Graham and Michael Lichaa, would you do it?
 
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cb4 said:
Question to the forum: If you could re-sign Fifita, but lose Wade Graham and Michael Lichaa, would you do it?
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a very good question and as you are the one asking it this tends to make me think and ask you one back, is it coming down to this scenario?

I will say I would keep Fiffi.
Wado could still be in trouble with asada and while i'm a huge fan of young Mick he is still unproven.
 
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Card Shark

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cb4 said:
Question to the forum: If you could re-sign Fifita, but lose Wade Graham and Michael Lichaa, would you do it?
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Hard 1 alright. Probably keep the superstar!
/ match winner, as we haven't had 1 of those for ages.
 
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