Wasnt a big enough body to be a centre as he was in ISP either.
Yeah, nah. Centres generally aren't THAT big - hell, wingers often are bigger these days. That was his position in our squad (or should have been, given the makeup of the team), and we kept recruiting and playing average players at that position instead of giving him a shot there.
Your depth point is interesting... but good teams actually often don't release players just because they got an opportunity elsewhere, they only do it when it suits them - the Storm aren't giving out early releases because someone wanted to play Jahrome Hughes or Scott Drinkwater last year, for example.
Anyway, a disappointing result with a player I had hopes for, but at least it was only opportunity lost, not realized potential. *shrug* Good luck to him in Canberra.