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Hayne to Essendon?

El Diablo

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who is this plonker :?

http://www.tweednews.com.au/story/2009/08/07/hayne-jumping-ship-a-real-bomb-shell/

Another league star tipped to make the AFL jump

7th August 2009

BEFORE you start reading this week's column, I want you to be sitting down.

As most people are aware, the AFL scored a major coup last week with the signing of Karmichael Hunt to the Gold Coast Football Club for next year.

Hunt will be playing in the VFL, and while that sent shock waves through the rugby league community, I heard this week of something even bigger.

I have it on good authority that another superstar fullback is going to jump ship and chase the big bucks in AFL - none other than Jarryd Hayne!

Yes that's right - I have been informed that Hayne has signed (note has) with Essendon for next year with a price tag of $1 million.

Apparently he was in Melbourne this week, talking to the Bombers, and my mail comes directly from the Essendon training camp that he will be part of the club next season.

If this is true, it sends an even bigger shockwave through the NRL.

But wait there's more!

The rumours are that Hayne isn't the only high-profile league star that will be announcing a code change, with Collingwood and Eddie McGuire planning to drop a bombshell with some signings of mega proportions within the next 10 days.

While the names being linked with the Pies sound like a wish list, if the news about Hayne is correct, the gloves are well and truly off in the battle of the codes.

If he has gone to the AFL, it confirms what I was talking about last week that a number of high-profile players are totally disgruntled with the way the NRL is being run from the executive down.

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NOW before you go saying that Wombat is off his rocker, my information comes from a very credible Tweed rugby league stalwart who has connections within the Essendon training camp and I have no reason to doubt this bloke.

If Hayne has gone, it will be yet another media steal on the NRL, with the AFL dominating the headlines and really showing just how serious they are about becoming the dominant football code in this country.

However if the salary figure is fair dinkum, what does that say to existing AFL players, especially the rising stars like Sam Gilbert?

Surely this money must be topped up by the AFL itself rather than just the club.

The media attention the code would attract by signing Hayne would be priceless, and you know that Eddie McGuire is a media junkie capable of doing anything if it means good press for Collingwood.

What it would also do is send a message to young league players that the world is their oyster when it comes to code-crossing.

Like most league supporters, I always thought union was the biggest threat to league, but not anymore.
 

El Diablo

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Yes that's right - I have been informed that Hayne has signed (note has) with Essendon for next year with a price tag of $1 million.

he's still under contract you numbnut
 

Kenny

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I wish this guy would make up his mind. One minute hayne is playing in the vfl and the next he is in the afl. I think his source might be on the sauce.
 
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Thse post are going to be fun to watch until he signs:DLove these rumours,one person jumps ships to that game and now they are all going to go:sarcasm:What a goose
 

Eels Dude

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Yeah there is a 3 or 4 page thread about this article in the NRL forum already, posted a couple of days ago. Pretty much rubbish everyone agrees.
 

El Diablo

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NOW before you go saying that Wombat is off his rocker

Wombat is more than off his rocker

you should be beaten with a stick and next time ignore your gay mates in Melbourne
 

TheParraboy

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The AFL should just leave their recruitment to someone who knows his sh*t about playing aerial ping pong

Ahn Doh :D
 

Binga

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Sounds like this journalist got there information of the same muppet who called into 2SM a few days back. To think that someone would write a story like this based on one persons information who is not associated with any club (but claims to know some people) is laughable.
 

El Diablo

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Sounds like this journalist got there information of the same muppet who called into 2SM a few days back. To think that someone would write a story like this based on one persons information who is not associated with any club (but claims to know some people) is laughable.

and he could have quite easily checked and rang back his nice person mate and asked how the f**k can he have signed to play boggerball next season when he's not off contract at Parra until the the end of 2010
 

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