Besides it's purely speculation, if we do get Ennis which I very much doubt (and don't personally want) he'd have to come for extreme under considering we have a top quality hooker in De Gois ready to put pen to paper, Boyd would take unders just to stalk Wayne, the only bloke who'd get overs in Snowden. People have to realise that our salary cap won't be just a case of us replacing 400k worth of talent with 400k worth of talent so to speak. Under Tinkler we'll be able to get 3rd party deals in place that we haven't in the past, and we won't have the problem of having to pay overs for players because of the negative stigma that was once associated with the club.
Let's face it, in the past players were never keen to come to Newcastle, and with good reason, the club was run like a Thursday night meat raffle, there were stories everyweek about how the club was going broke, no one had ever heard of Rick Stone and quite frankly our football department was run on a shoe string budget. Even I wouldn't want to sign there if I was a player.
That however has changed, we now have a brand new stadium to rival Skilled park and AAMI park in terms of state of the art modern rugby league stadiums, under Tinkler players know the club is secure financially and they'll be paid on time, under Tinkler, all departments will be properly funded and just as a bonus we've got arguably the best coach the game has ever had.
We use to be the club that a player would go to if he didn't have many other offers but now I definitely see that changing.
