Just say eela Reddy was signed to an $80,000 a year deal, that is $80,000 which could've been used to sign Feleti, get my drift?
As for the negotiation process? Myself, Jake and others have been screaming for this guy to play more first grade since 2004, yet this, on a one year deal which i'm led to believe he was close to not even being offered a deal if it wasn't for the intervention of M Hagan. This asks serious questions about our ability to resign & sign players, Feleti should've been resigned a long time ago, yet now his value is alot more and we may struggle to keep him. As for Lowrie? regardless if it was last year he still contributes to the cap for this & next year if he's here, that was one mistake of Hagans.
Just on another topic, weren't a few of our players being rewarded for 10 year service this year or next, if so, then we also should have even money avaliable to sign these players.