This.
Also, LOL at how Tauber was angry at the NRL (when he was interviewed by Weidler) for not intervening in trying to keep Benji in league. He thought the NRL were going to bail Benji out and negotiate a deal like they did to keep Andrew Johns in the NRL in 2004. The bottom line with Benji though is that none of the other 15 clubs want to touch him with a 50 foot pole because they know he is not even worth half the amount of money he's asking for. By forfeiting the last two years of his Tigers contract, he's done nothing other than screw himself out of money that he isn't worth in the first place, and won't be getting even in Union.
Looks like Slothfield was right about one thing all along: that Benji was given way too much power and control at the Tigers, and once Sheens was no longer there to cover him up, he was exposed and had nothing to fall back on. Benji - a good player but had a very small peak (2005/06) largely attributed to his signature moves, the goose-step and the flick pass. Once he stopped doing it, he was like Samson after Delilah shaved his head: he had nothing. He has been grossly overpaid for the past few years and for those who say he played in the winning 2008WC and 2010 4-nations sides, yes he was a part of the side but wasn't instrumental for the Kiwis in either of those campaigns.
He's been a has-been for quite sometime, and him and his screwball manager have run amok and tried to hold the Tigers management to ransom for years with the "we've received much better offers elsewhere (Union)" line to milk more money from the Tigers when he was slowly in decline. Now we'll see whether or not reality matches up with the claims. We're going to find they won't. Sucked in! The Tigers are going to be far better off in the next couple of years without him.
