Around the Grounds

[mozza91]

The Tigers will definitely improve (hard not too from last) but I can’t see them making the finals. Luai and Ali are all class but Bula was pretty quiet last year and Galvin has shown a decent running game and not much more. Big doubts about Benji as a coach too.

I’m pretty confident we’ll finish ahead of them.

 

[Knight Tales]

I don’t know. I think that Tigers spine is pretty exceptional. If it does not motivate the rest of them to find another gear then nothing will.

 

[Burwood]

Luai will do for the Tigers what Crichton did for the Bulldogs.

 

[Frederick]

Cleary to Newcastle in 2028?

 

[Yosh]

The Tigers will definitely improve (hard not too from last) but I can’t see them making the finals. Luai and Ali are all class but Bula was pretty quiet last year and Galvin has shown a decent running game and not much more. Big doubts about Benji as a coach too.

I’m pretty confident we’ll finish ahead of them.

Galvin is like 12 years old and single handed won them games. He is going to be electric I reckon in 2025. Their spine kills ours.

 

[Mr_Knightside]

Does anyone else think that Hunt signing with the Broncos is a bit sus?

Supposedly he’s signed for $550K which means he’s taking almost a 50% pay cut voluntarily to walk away from his Dragons deal. Wasn’t there supposed to be an auditing thing with the salary cap to ensure that teams don’t sign elite players for way unders? Kinda like how they blocked Turbo from taking a pay cut at Manly?

Also how on earth do the Broncos have over half a million lying around for 2025 with the squad they’ve got?

Here’s my brief summary of the situation…
- Star 5/8 on massive contract gets in trouble and is stood down/suspended
- That’s ok we’ll just sign an incumbent origin/international playmaker to replace him
- oh and we’ll do it at a discount

Surely the going rate for an incumbent origin + international half is a little higher than $550K…

Have the NRL actually signed off on the deal yet?

For the record, if his motivation is to win a comp at the Broncos, and I’m sure it would be given what happened in 2015, then I’m sure he’ll feel happy with the decision if it pans out. Although the rest of us won’t be given the rest of the league hates the Broncos.

But I’m finding it a little hard to believe that a guy in the twilight of his career is fine with leaving $500K a year on the table, probably costing him $1m over 2 years (pre tax of course) That’s literally a life changing amount of money for most people.