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Bazal

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If his primary motive for making the decision was money and then he performs as poorly as he has I think the term "mercenary" is appropriate.

He doesn't even appear remotely interested in the Titans. Perhaps not worthy of a Kayne West song but definitely mercenary behaviour to some degree.

Nope.

Kevin Pietersen is a mercenary. Get a big T20 deal, blow in, play 6 games, pay out Andrew Strauss and do some shithouse giggling in the comm box, f**k off to the next deal. Rinse and repeat.

Performing poorly in a shit team has nothing to do with being a mercenary. And he hasn't performed half as poorly as people tell you he has. Some people deadset reckon he should have dragged that basket case into the eight off his own back.
 

84 Baby

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Gary I think you are besmirching the hardworking mercenaries out there like G4S or Gardaworld.
Or the Pinkertons
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hindy111

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Jeez people act like he's the first player to take big money.

He was offered 200-400k or something more to perform the same role somewhere he didn't want to really do it. I think every single one of us would take that in less than a heartbeat. It doesn't make him a mercenary. It also doesn't excuse not performing in the role he chose to take

Exactly while Woods and Teddy left the clubs that helped them get where are for same money but just a chance to be in a better side. Now that wpuld hurt even more wouldnt it?
Yeah we arent staying cause use are shit. Hayne could of done same thing after 2009.......
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hindy111

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I reckon Tedseco will end in a bit of let down. Unsure why.
Feel like he maybe one of those guys who gets an ankle injury and never gets back to that form. And a guy who in a bad side had freedom to do whatever he wanted.
He is too much quality to become a bad player, but Unsure he will go up a level like expected.

Been impressed with RTS OF LATE AND I reckon a big 2018. Is BS coaching them?
 

IFR33K

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Nope.

Kevin Pietersen is a mercenary. Get a big T20 deal, blow in, play 6 games, pay out Andrew Strauss and do some shithouse giggling in the comm box, f**k off to the next deal. Rinse and repeat.

Performing poorly in a shit team has nothing to do with being a mercenary. And he hasn't performed half as poorly as people tell you he has. Some people deadset reckon he should have dragged that basket case into the eight off his own back.

Here’s a stat for you!

They won 1 of many games after his signing last year, after travelling well all year. Then this year they absolutely crumbled after being tipped to make the 8. Lol
 

Bazal

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Here’s a stat for you!

They won 1 of many games after his signing last year, after travelling well all year. Then this year they absolutely crumbled after being tipped to make the 8. Lol

Which has exactly what to do with whether he is a mercenary or not? Kinda adds weight to the basket case that the club is, though, wouldn't you say?
 

IFR33K

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Which has exactly what to do with whether he is a mercenary or not? Kinda adds weight to the basket case that the club is, though, wouldn't you say?


They were travelling quite well until he arrived wouldn’t you think? Maybe you’re right re them being a basket case, but surely JH has contributed to that!
 

Bazal

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They were travelling quite well until he arrived wouldn’t you think? Maybe you’re right re them being a basket case, but surely JH has contributed to that!

He probably has. Blokes would be sitting there wondering why a guy who didn't want to be there and who the coach didn't want was suddenly rocking up and taking their spot earning 1.2 million bucks a season, for starters.

Oh sorry, wait. That's not the narrative.

"Yeah Hayne is wholly and personally to blame for the Titans poor performance and the decision to sack their coach after a bad season..."

Fact is the Titans board (and the NRL) signed a bloke the coach didn't want, who didn't really want to play for them, to big money and slotted him in over guys who had been there for 18 rounds of the season immediately. You reckon it's the players' fault? The bloke could have and should have played better but he didn't sign himself up That alone backs up the idea that the club was already a basket case, it was just yet to show on the field.
 

Twizzle

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how is he a mercenary if he only had one offer and he took it, what other choice did he have, unemployment ?

he called out the Eels for not making an offer yet we reported in the media that we made the offer to his agent and we were told verbatim "to sharpen our pencil"

Hayne was not aware of our offer till the next day but the Tits put a clock on the offer. He really had no other option.

but yeh, hr's a mercenary
 

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