‘Name his own price’: Roosters star tipped to hit open market as rivals line up to land $1.8m blow

[BLM01]

No to Sam Walker - too expensive.
The Salary Cap should be changed to work as follows - if Sam becomes uncontracted and another team is prepared to offer Sam $1.5M (via a registered bid through the NRL) then should he eventually stay with the Roosters - they should be forced to include a minimum of $1.275M (85% of 1.5M) in their salary cap. If the Roosters pay him more than $1.275M then the Cap amount increases accordingly.

NRL cap auditor does that anyway. They put a realistic market value based on a number of inputs (e.g. standing in the game, achievements, reps, PM's etc) on a player before they accept a contract which is not necessarily the highest bid
If a team is stupid enough to pay a player 50% above his worth (e.g. Hunt back in 2017 when signed) and he does not go there (like him or not he came) that is there stupid problem

 

[Lovemedragons]

No to Sam Walker - too expensive.
The Salary Cap should be changed to work as follows - if Sam becomes uncontracted and another team is prepared to offer Sam $1.5M (via a registered bid through the NRL) then should he eventually stay with the Roosters - they should be forced to include a minimum of $1.275M (85% of 1.5M) in their salary cap. If the Roosters pay him more than $1.275M then the Cap amount increases accordingly.

I sincerely dont think he is too expensive if we are really serious about becoming a legitimate contender. $1.5m would deliver us all that we don't get from Hunt, the halfback is the key to all the great teams, currently and in the past. My only concern would be injury but that is present in every signing, and he has hardly been known to be injury prone, has he?

What he is is a winner, a thinker, a highly skilled player, a potential leader, born into the game and would win us many matches we don't currently win. If he came to us we would immediately be considered as a serious team, week in week out.... we would all be smiling.

 

[saint pebba]

The only way we would stand a chance of getting Walker is if we paid 1.2m a year and then had a TPA lined up to pay him an extra 1.3m a year.

 

[Pjf04b]

Restraint of trade!