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[lingard]

So I see that Mick Gordon has signed to the titans after immediately being released by the roosters. Is kent going to have a cry about him not going to market and finding out his true value?

I get it, kent wants to make a big deal about this happening. But if he wants his opinion to hold weight then he needs to showcase many examples of this happening rather than just one. There are many examples but his failure to offer up another and rather use "player X" means he doesn't care about other examples, he only cares about making it appear that Parramatta are the only club doing the wrong thing.

Did Mick Gordon sign for significantly lower than his probable market value?

 

[Obscene Assassin]

Did Mick Gordon sign for significantly lower than his probable market value?

We'll never know because he didn't go to market.

 

[lingard]

We'll never know because he didn't go to market.

Okay, did Michael Gordon walk out on a contract with one club, in order to sign for half that amount with another?

 

[hineyrulz]

Why not? Our club was caught acting inappropriately last year.

Last year under totally different management.

Kent had no problem when Foran went to the Warriors on half the coin was on with us.

 

[hineyrulz]

Okay, did Michael Gordon walk out on a contract with one club, in order to sign for half that amount with another?

Gordon is apparently the same money, plus his family are already living on the coast. Plus they gave him a two year deal.

 

[lingard]

Last year under totally different management.

Kent had no problem when Foran went to the Warriors on half the coin was on with us.

Totally different situation. Foran brought the game into disrepute by associating with known criminals. He went to rehab to deal with psychological problems AND he was carrying a fairly chronic injury. At the time, the NRL were quite publicly scrutinising the situation regarding his fitness (physically and emotionally) to play in the NRL, and any contract he was signing. In the Hayne case, Paul Kent feels (rightly or wrongly) that no such diligence has been applied by the NRL.

 

[Noise]

Totally different situation. Foran brought the game into disrepute by associating with known criminals. Fora

Wasn't Hayne caught hanging with known bikie criminals too?

 

[hineyrulz]

Totally different situation. Foran brought the game into disrepute by associating with known criminals. Fora

Absolute rubbish, i'd argue that Foran's form for us was much better than what Hayne dished up for the Titans.

Both needed a change and both of them needed to repair their reputations, the only difference was Foran was going to the Warriors and Hayne is coming back to Parramatta.

 

[hineyrulz]

Wasn't Hayne caught hanging with known bikie criminals too?

Yep, landed on the back page of the Gold Coast bulletin posing with a known bikie waving 5k around. Hayne is about the most hated player in the game this year. Yeah lets offer him over a million because thats what a basket case like the Titans offered him.

 

[lingard]

Absolute rubbish, i'd argue that Foran's form for us was much better than what Hayne dished up for the Titans.

Both needed a change and both of them needed to repair their reputations, the only difference was Foran was going to the Warriors and Hayne is coming back to Parramatta.

The difference is that Foran's situation was heavily and publicly scrutinised by the NRL. Kent does not believe that this has happened in the Hayne case. I'm not saying Paul Kent is right or wrong. I'm saying he has every right to talk about it publicly. He is a sports journalist, after all.

 

[lingard]

Yep, landed on the back page of the Gold Coast bulletin posing with a known bikie waving 5k around. Hayne is about the most hated player in the game this year. Yeah lets offer him over a million because thats what a basket case like the Titans offered him.

You are completely missing the point.

 

[lingard]

Wasn't Hayne caught hanging with known bikie criminals too?

And that's all the more reason that the NRL should publicly scrutinise Hayne's deal with Parramatta? Maybe.

 

[hineyrulz]

The difference is that Foran's situation was heavily and publicly scrutinised by the NRL. Kent does not believe that this has happened in the Hayne case. I'm not saying Paul Kent is right or wrong. I'm saying he has every right to talk about it publicly. He is a sports journalist, after all.

Foran was looked into for all his rubbish that went on before he went to the Warriors, and about his mental state. But how seriously was his deal looked into at the Warriors??? The Warriors have also lost points for cheating the cap so they no doubt cheated to get Foran there by your logic.


At the end of the day he took a 50% pay cut, both of their reputations were mud at the time of leaving and taking those cut price deals the only difference is Kent has a problem with Parra on the right side of the NRL for once.

 

[Obscene Assassin]

Okay, did Michael Gordon walk out on a contract with one club, in order to sign for half that amount with another?

We don't know, paul kent hasn't reported on it

 

[hineyrulz]

You are completely missing the point.

Really??? You are the one who thinks the Hayne and Foran situations are totally different which is absolute BS.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Mate, every man and his dog has been saying that Hayne is poison - including a fair percentage of Parramatta fans. And the $600,000 is what Kent, himself, thought would be a reasonable amount of money to pay for Hayne (what Kent figured his real on-field value is at present). But that's not the point. The point is that Hayne is (theoretically) prepared to forgo a reported 1 million dollars in exchange for a reported $500,000 - all because he loves Parramatta so much. Well, wonderful if it's true. But if he was going to Melbourne under those conditions, I bet we'd all be up in arms about it.

Well I'd certainly think it was dodgy because what reason would he have to take a pay cut to play at Melbourne? And what if there are a couple of hundred thousand in TPAs? Hayne is a Parramatta icon so it's not as though it's impossible. Or are we not allowed to do them just because we were recently caught? And I'm not upset about Paul Kent being upset at all. I love it.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

The difference is that Foran's situation was heavily and publicly scrutinised by the NRL. Kent does not believe that this has happened in the Hayne case. I'm not saying Paul Kent is right or wrong. I'm saying he has every right to talk about it publicly. He is a sports journalist, after all.

If you'd seen the show you'd have noticed how angry he was about it, which was quite funny. I don't think he's being entirely rational.

 

[Obscene Assassin]

If you'd seen the show you'd have noticed how angry he was about it, which was quite funny. I don't think he's being entirely rational.

pk is not known to be a reliable source of information either. At the beginning of last season (2016) he said that Semi Radradra would never play for the Eels again because he was over in Fiji, declared that the relationship was over and he would be in French rugby ASAP.

 

[parrathruandthru]

I don't think it's so much what Paul Kent has to say about anything Parramatta it's the vitriolic way he says it. Merkin

 

[strider]

It's not a question of what he's worth. It's a question of a guy like Jarryd Hayne (who many have painted as a guy who is only in it for the money) suddenly turning his back on a million dollars in exchange for a $500,000 one year contract. THAT is the question. Now, either Jarryd loves Parramatta that much, or there is a shit load of TPA's happening in the background. And the context of the whole discussion on NRL 360 was that every one agreed that TPA's are a blight on the game and that they are virtually unpoliceable (you only get caught if you are very unlucky). Now, I'm not saying that there is necessarily anything dodgy going on in this case; what I am saying is that Paul Kent (or any other journalist) has a right to point out that the NRL should be all over it (and he appears to think that they aren't).
I really don't get why everyone here is so upset about Kent saying what he said. If he was saying it about another club no one would care, I'm sure.

No ... the issue is that Kent came out and blantantly said the NRL needs to investigate the club cos we are cheats .... Kent knows f**k all about it - just like you and me .... if he has something to back his shit up then fine, otherwise he can go f**k himself .... he seems to be conveniently forgetting that jarryd is getting some sort of payout from the Titans because his next contract has already started ... so thats an extra 100k-200k i would assume ontop of his 500k from parra