Benji to sign for another 5 ..

[madunit]

When is his contract up? I'm sure there will be huge offers to lure him away from us and that's what's worrying.
Priority is an understatement.

Woods is signed til the end of 2014 from memory

 

[Matchball]

Woods is signed til the end of 2014 from memory

Well that's too close for comfort. We need to lock him in now before the big money offers start coming.

 

[madunit]

what with? He deserves a few hundred thou, do we even have that after Farah's, Marshall's, Lawrence's, Galloway's and Blair's contracts are all taken into consideration?

 

[Shanghai Charlie]

I have no issue with Benji's re-signing

If anything the large salary is essentially repayment for what he did on minimum wage in his first 2-3 years.

Especially if Potter gets his hands on a decent pack, we'll quickly see Benji playing good footy very quickly and everyone here won't care as much about this deal.

The only issue is what to do with Sironen, Brooks and Moses. I personally think if we get 2 beefy hard running back rowers, Sironen would make a great Lock, similar to Wade Graham type of player.

Brooks to halfback.

Moses could essentially join Brooks in the halves, Benji moves to centre and Ayshford into the second row possibly. Give Aysh a lot of training on tackling technique and he'd make a good second rower.


He'd be a darn sight better than Blair and Anasta in the back row, thats for f**king sure.

1 - Tedesco
2 - Koroibete
3 - Marshall
4 - Lawrence
5 - Nofoaluma
6 - Moses
7 - Brooks
8 - Woods
9 - Farah
10 - Buchanan
11 - Ayshford
12 - a top line second rower
13 - Sironen

14 - Murdoch-Masila
15 - a prop
16 - a prop
17 - Fulton

would be roughly how the team could look in 2 years time (no Anasta, Moltzen, Blair, Pettybourne)

Would like to see this team.
Ayshford with another 8kg could be very good second rower. Hits line hard.
Siro must model Wade Graham
Benji could be very very good in centres

 

[Matchball]

what with? He deserves a few hundred thou, do we even have that after Farah's, Marshall's, Lawrence's, Galloway's and Blair's contracts are all taken into consideration?

Hard choices need to be made.
Boot Blair, Lawrence, Moltzen and that should be more than enough to keep Woods and grab another prop.

 

[gronkathon]

Galloway had his manager go to the Saints. The baulked and gave the thanks but no thanks when his asking figure was put on the table.

 

[benched tiger]

Galloway was touted as a potenial champion but realistically he has never reached any great heights,its not as if he puts the fear of god into the opposition,plus his record of continually getting injured would not appeal to other clubs.

 

[madunit]

Galloway is worth keeping if he accepts a pay of nothing over 200k

 

[Shanghai Charlie]

Been consistently well above average his whole career. Played SOO and test football and is still only 27.
Best years still ahead of him if he gets a break with injuries.

Gives us probably the best front row in NRL. Woods Farah Galloway

 

[Shanghai Charlie]

Galloway is worth keeping if he accepts a pay of nothing over 200k

2011 23 games, SOO and tests.
2012 18 games.

Worth quite a bit more than 200k.
Hasnt missed as many games as people like to think.

 

[madunit]

Quite convenient to pick the only 2 seasons in a decade where he had at least 20 appearances.

 

[Radical Rat]

what with? He deserves a few hundred thou, do we even have that after Farah's, Marshall's, Lawrence's, Galloway's and Blair's contracts are all taken into consideration?

Under the new TV deal he's worth a damn sight more than a few hundred thousand.

 

[madunit]

millions?

 

[benched tiger]

New tv deal,inflation,salary cap increase whatever,why is it necessary to instantly start paying average NRL players more money when our results have not been favourable.

 

[TV Ted Ellery]

On May 3 every year we should have a minute's silence to honour the brave men and women who have run on to a Benji Marshall short ball.

 

[Shanghai Charlie]

Still want to give him an extension in May?

 

[hybrid_tiger]

Anyone who wants him resigned for 5 years on the reported figures is on some heavy drugs.

 

[TiggaPlease]

Cut him now. We would've been better off with Miller there tonight. The only thing Benji does consistently is take the wrong option.

 

[Shanghai Charlie]

4 tackles. 8 missed tackles. 2 errors. Hindered everything and everyone out there......but still played better than Blair.
Cut them both loose now and lets rebuild.

 

[Matchball]

Didn't train all week and played injured.
That's not the actions of a team man. Miller should tell us to f**k off and sign elsewhere.