Greg Inglis headed to South Sydney - no players to be shed

[Cockadoodledoo]

:lol::lol::lol:

Why are we persisting with this sham of a salary cap?

The likes of Brisbane, Canterbury, Souths and Easts can sign whoever they want whenever they want anyway, tis a farce.

I mean fair dinkum, giving someone a charity job, but only if he signs with your favourite team? How charitable.....

Yeah the Bronco's got Hannant, the Bulldogs Pritchard and Eastwood, Souths now Inglis and the Roosters a North Queensland bench player in Anthony Watts and a guy who couldn't get a run at Canberra in Justin Carney.. You are right, those 4 clubs have monopolised the transfer market.

 

[Red&BlackBear]

A lot of great aboriginal player have played for souths. They have a connection with the original owners of this great land and while I don't doubt that money is a factor in all of this, I am glad inside that if anyone picks him up it's souths. That aside I feel for all the younguns at the broncos who would have got super excited to play with inglis only for everything to unfold the way it has but in saying that now maybe the younguns at souths will get that opportunity.

The entire thing has been off since day 1 though. Melbourne have shown their complete lack of professionalism. The Broncos had the right however to cancel the offer, they too are entitled to a decision and dragging things isn't good for business. Inglis ultimately will decide what's best for him, whether it ends up being a good move or not though we will have to wait and see.

 

[adamkungl]

Souths fans are a joke - for decades successful clubs like the Roosters and Broncos have been copping their sooking about rorting the cap, "how can they possibly fit him under the cap" after every single signing, even after losing a bunch of players the previous year. Now we have Souffs fans trotting out this

This is what happens when you have people running your club that know what they're doing. You make the most out of your cap, squeezing in as much talent as possible and not paying overs for anyone. Doing that you give yourself the chance to take advantage of opportunities like this when they come along.

I don't begrudge a club signing anyone, and I'm not accusing you of being over the cap... but :lol: HYPOCRITES!

 

[God-King Dean]

I don't believe they are over the cap.

But if Souths don't make the 8 next year.... Well......

 

[haha]

The media would have you believe that he has already signed with souths going by the crap in the papers.

So if souths do sign him the media will rip in about the salary cap and if he doesn't sign we they will call us failures.
They are hedging thier bets, either way this story will sell papers.

Why are they not demanding audits or investigations into Parra's, Dogs and warriors interest in GI?

All the Media reports have whipped everyone into a frenzy and It wouldn't suprise me if Inglis plays outside the nrl.
Would that make everyone happy?

I would rather see GI play for any team in the nrl rather than a AFL or union team anyday.

I'm not buying the medias crap and I hope Inglis comes to souths, if he doesn't I hope he stays in the nrl.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Yes let's ignore reality. Backended contract + marquee player allowance + third party payments (including significant 100k a year job from billionaire twiggy forrest) + significant increase in salary cap for next year + the fact that we havent bought anybody in over 12 months + losing several players + resigning a couple others for less = its quite easy to fit GI in.

Let's not get carried away with the conspiracy theories kids.

Just because a team has managed to get a significant amount of talent together does not mean they have cheated, maybe just maybe the management is good at what it does.

a) Assembling a team that looks good on paper then does nothing.
b) Bending over repeatedly for a new zealand actor.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Just because a team has managed to get a significant amount of talent together does not mean they have cheated, maybe just maybe the management is good at what it does.

Just because a team managed to get a significant amount of talent together does not mean they have good management, maybe, just maybe the management is good at cheating.

Not saying they're cheating or not, but to tell someone else they ignore reality when your own arguements are full of just as much guesswork and conjecture is a little rich.

Your own CEO said on several occasions that there's no money left. Suddenly there's enough for Inglis. It looks bad, sound bad, and is only natural that opposition fans ask questions (some irrationally) and it's only natural that Souths fans defend the team with a large degree of bias.

 

[BunniesMan]

a) Assembling a team that looks good on paper then does nothing.

That will shock the world in 2011.

b) Bending over repeatedly for a new zealand actor.

Rusty is a married man, and even if he was into cheating he could do better than our management (have you seen richo?). Rusty could afford the finest high class escorts Sydney has to offer.

 

[simostorm]

theres a big financial backer coming in to aid Souths with GI.. he can pay him pretty much whatever he likes..

Its legal and this type of 3rd party deal should be praised.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Why are they not demanding audits or investigations into Parra's, Dogs and warriors interest in GI?

Because none of those sides are expected to sign him.

If Inglis was about to sign for the Dogs you could gaurantee that there'd be an absolute sh*tfight in here in regards to the Dogs being over the cap.

Eels - nobody would care, they just signed Webb FFS they need all the help they can get.

Warriors - :lol: Inglis wouldn't go there. If the Warriors made him an offer he'd probably use the paper to make a captains hat for his boat.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

That will shock the world in 2011.

.

I think you're the one in for a shock in 2011.

 

[SSFC Hitman]

Just because a team managed to get a significant amount of talent together does not mean they have good management, maybe, just maybe the management is good at cheating.

Not saying they're cheating or not, but to tell someone else they ignore reality when your own arguements are full of just as much guesswork and conjecture is a little rich.

Your own CEO said on several occasions that there's no money left. Suddenly there's enough for Inglis. It looks bad, sound bad, and is only natural that opposition fans ask questions (some irrationally) and it's only natural that Souths fans defend the team with a large degree of bias.

If this was another club I'd be asking how they can fit under the salary cap but there are ways around it and loopholes that are legal. What I will say is that I am 100% confident that someone like Russell Crowe would not want to be associated with cheating and anyone that thinks (and I include the Media in this) that Russell Crowe would put his reputation / credibility on the line are so stupid it's beyond comprehension.

Also Our CEO is like every other CEO-- they play poker and they tell people what they want people to think. I'll try to find it but I remember when Richo said we had no money at the end of the article he also said that we save a little bit of money in case a player comes onto the market- it could have even been last year bvefore Burgess signed.

Anyways Inglis hasn't even signed yet.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

What credibility?

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

If this was another club I'd be asking how they can fit under the salary cap but there are ways around it and loopholes that are legal. What I will say is that I am 100% confident that someone like Russell Crowe would not want to be associated with cheating and anyone that thinks (and I include the Media in this) that Russell Crowe would put his reputation / credibility on the line are so stupid it's beyond comprehension.

Also Our CEO is like every other CEO-- they play poker and they tell people what they want people to think. I'll try to find it but I remember when Richo said we had no money at the end of the article he also said that we save a little bit of money in case a player comes onto the market- it could have even been last year bvefore Burgess signed.

Anyways Inglis hasn't even signed yet.

I'm sure there were people at the Storm who didn't want to be involved in cheating either.

My point is that perception is reality and for every reason a Bunnies fan can give as to why they're not cheating, an opposition fan can give for why they are. It's a pretty circular arguement and I doubt there are too many people here who are privy to enough inside information where they can 100% say either way or not. It's just guesswork/opinion.

Personally if Souths have found a way for Inglis to earn 600k while being included under the cap for 300k (as an example only) then good on them, I wish we could find ways for more clubs to do that (without them going broke). I'd like to see better quality teams across the board in a close fought contest rather than weaker teams across the board in a tight fought contest.

 

[haha]

Because none of those sides are expected to sign him.

If Inglis was about to sign for the Dogs you could gaurantee that there'd be an absolute sh*tfight in here in regards to the Dogs being over the cap.

Eels - nobody would care, they just signed Webb FFS they need all the help they can get.

Warriors - :lol: Inglis wouldn't go there. If the Warriors made him an offer he'd probably use the paper to make a captains hat for his boat.

:lol: Its good to see not everybody is going to cut thier wrists because inglis might sign with souths.

It will be interesting to see peoples opinions and media reports if he leaves the nrl.

 

[BranVan3000]

Just because a team managed to get a significant amount of talent together does not mean they have good management, maybe, just maybe the management is good at cheating.

Not saying they're cheating or not, but to tell someone else they ignore reality when your own arguements are full of just as much guesswork and conjecture is a little rich.

Your own CEO said on several occasions that there's no money left. Suddenly there's enough for Inglis. It looks bad, sound bad, and is only natural that opposition fans ask questions (some irrationally) and it's only natural that Souths fans defend the team with a large degree of bias.

How long ago was it that he said that? It was around the time Inglis was on the market, before Broncos got him. Rabbitohs offered no comment during the proceeds and only said they wouldn''t have the money after the bid was unsuccessful

Since then we've offloaded players, there have been salary cap increases, marquee player allowances, relaxed third party agreements etc. and we had gotten back into the market. They were on the verge of bringing over the entire Burgess crew a few weeks ago, so there is obviously money left to be spent in the cap. Though I'm sure that money has gone into Inglis.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

If Inglis signs with Souths they'll look great on paper. Sadly that sort of side should be the norm as opposed to the exception.

Question though - where would Inglis play? I've always thought he was wasted at centre, and no offense to Wesser who's been a great servant to league, but GI would sh*t all over him at fullback.

 

[some11]

Yeah the Bronco's got Hannant, the Bulldogs Pritchard and Eastwood, Souths now Inglis and the Roosters a North Queensland bench player in Anthony Watts and a guy who couldn't get a run at Canberra in Justin Carney.. You are right, those 4 clubs have monopolised the transfer market.

Never argue with an idiot, they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

How long ago was it that he said that? It was around the time Inglis was on the market, before Broncos got him. Rabbitohs offered no comment during the proceeds and only said they wouldn''t have the money after the bid was unsuccessful

Since then we've offloaded players, there have been salary cap increases, marquee player allowances, relaxed third party agreements etc. and we had gotten back into the market. They were on the verge of bringing over the entire Burgess crew a few weeks ago, so there is obviously money left to be spent in the cap. Though I'm sure that money has gone into Inglis.

And your list of reasons is no less than the amount of reasons the Storm gave when people said they were cheating. This is a forum, and people can take bits and pieces of information and try to put a puzzle together, but the reality is nobody here has the inside knowledge to say 100% what is and isn't going on.

 

[God-King Dean]

If the Warriors made him an offer he'd probably use the paper to make a captains hat for his boat.

:lol: