Rumoured and Confirmed signings - Part 4

[GongPanther]

Did Sauce ever give a thought about the guy(s) who had to be let go when we had to find room in the cap to extend his contracts over the years? He has had his fun in the Sun, and now it's time to move on to make way for Staines, who is destined to become the NRL's best try scorer in multiple upcoming seasons.

 

[Jane Murray]

Did Sauce ever give a thought about the guy(s) who had to be let go when we had to find room in the cap to extend his contracts over the years? He has had his fun in the Sun, and now it's time to move on to make way for Staines, who is destined to become the NRL's best try scorer in multiple upcoming seasons.

Also, the Panthers are the only team to give him a go. He would not have been a first grader if not for the Panthers.

 

[Black Diamond]

So we carry old underperforming players because they are good guys? Wake up guys

Underperforming? Mansour and To'o were rated 10th wing combo in 2019 and 2nd in 2020 in NRL power ratings.

 

[franklin2323]

Mansour himself is saying he would’ve rather been told a little later. Why not take him at his word?

He’s not going to miss out on a deal, there hasn’t been a raft of signings in the past 8 days.

Most clubs are close to full for 2021. 9 clubs will be over if the squad size ends up being 28. If he wants to go early then waiting makes no sense.

He only needs to speak to Tamou to see how stressful waiting for a deal can be atleast Tamou was still in the top grade.. would be much worse in NSW Cup

 

[franklin2323]

This.

Agree 100%

The morale in the team has been amazing this year, everyone who watches NRL has spoken about this all year. Other teams envy the comradery amongst our boys. I also think it could be detrimental to team morale. The loss of experience is a big worry to me.

So we wait...Then get blasted because we strung him along. There is literally no right answer here

 

[franklin2323]

Underperforming? Mansour and To'o were rated 10th wing combo in 2019 and 2nd in 2020 in NRL power ratings.
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What about the 3 prior years for sauce? What if this was an outlier and we are stuck with a busted up 32 year old meanwhile we let Staines go?

People on here still whinge that we let Sivo go to keep sauce. So there is no right answer and can't keep them all.

He has been a great servant and I hope he gets to bow out on his terms

 

[Luke Bowden]

Matt who? He is totally irrelevant.

Will Burto and Critter also be totally irrelevant?? Hmmmmmm

 

[Jane Murray]

Will Burto and Critter also be totally irrelevant?? Hmmmmmm

Seriously? Moylan is a FORMER panther.

 

[BxTom]

What worries me is that Sauce had the 200k discount as a long serving player so he should only be costing @200k. We went out and got Rennings and Eisenhuth for 220k (min NRL wage is, I believe 110k?). I know who I'd rather have as a backup winger, and it's not one of our, Souths and Wests rejects.

 

[Black Diamond]

What worries me is that Sauce had the 200k discount as a long serving player so he should only be costing @200k. We went out and got Rennings and Eisenhuth for 220k (min NRL wage is, I believe 110k?). I know who I'd rather have as a backup winger, and it's not one of our, Souths and Wests rejects.

Good point.

 

[Luke Bowden]

Seriously? Moylan is a FORMER panther.

Yeah and at one point he was a Panther who came out in public and said that he wasn’t going anywhere. Now he’s a former Panther.

kinda the point.

 

[Jane Murray]

Yeah and at one point he was a Panther who came out in public and said that he wasn’t going anywhere. Now he’s a former Panther.

kinda the point.

I know. One is still a panther, and that is my point.

 

[Blade23]

Yeah but it is easier to buy experience then young talent.

Look at the guys we signed so far. Aekins gone RJennings in. Added experience there

Same too Eisenhuth for Jed or Ellis. A few more like that and the 30 man squad is more experienced than this year was

You can buy experience but you can't replace passion (Mansour) and leadership (Tamou) straight away.
Next year will be very interesting.

 

[Alintheeast]

Won’t be in 2021, Roosters just re-signed the Morris brothers. And Crichton is contracted here next season.

Sorry I meant 2022.

 

[tripster]

@Blade23 is there any substance to this report from the SMH?

The rumour mill has been in overdrive the past week about the future of Penrith young gun Stephen Crichton. There had been a suggestion Crichton attracted interest from the Sydney Roosters to replace Josh Morris at left centre in 2022, but the Tricolours have strongly denied any pursuit of Crichton.

This column last week reported the handshake deal Crichton made with Ivan Cleary to honour a three-year $1.5 million deal which had been agreed upon three months ago.

It now looks like Crichton will honour one part of that deal: to remain at Penrith. But you can be guaranteed his new agent Sam Ayoub will be arguing that Crichton is worth far more than $500,000 a season when he begins negotiations this week. The change of heart hasn't gone down well at Penrith.

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/th...elease-from-south-sydney-20201108-p56cmt.html

 

[Blade23]

@Blade23 is there any substance to this report from the SMH?


https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/th...elease-from-south-sydney-20201108-p56cmt.html

The Roosters link is bullshit. Made up to drive up his price and panic us into offering more.
The rest of the story is true. His new manager is agitating for more. He will get it too.
They will have it sorted out soon.

 

[murraymob]

The Roosters link is bullshit. Made up to drive up his price and panic us into offering more.
The rest of the story is true. His new manager is agitating for more. He will get it too.
They will have it sorted out soon.

I guess from now on they need to get them to sign straight away being nice and allowing time never ends well

 

[Blade23]

I guess from now on they need to get them to sign straight away being nice and allowing time never ends well

Very true.

 

[mxlegend99]

Not sure how he's worth more than $500k now. For all his potential he has he has some flaws aswell and if he's not going to honour his word on an already generous contract it doesn't seem right to give him more.

We tried to do right by him only to be screwed. Don't want to lose him. But if we did I wouldn't blame the club on this one.

 

[franklin2323]

You can buy experience but you can't replace passion (Mansour) and leadership (Tamou) straight away.
Next year will be very interesting.

This is true but Cleary (Rightly or Wrongly is now the NSW Vice Captain), Yeo will be captain this year other guys step up.

Luai said he doesn't want to wear another sides jersey. JFH's speech when he got his milestone jersey was all passion.