Josh Hodgson

[the phantom menace]

I wonder if journos have access to financial records or if they just read the forums.

*fortunes

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I am loath to believe journo speculation.

But I have slightly more confidence in their figures than your speculation - because yours is just designed to prove your circular logic.

Your point is literally that Hodgson "can't be on that much because he isn't worth that much".

He would be on whatever he was projected to be worth at the time he signed the contract. I think $400k is reasonable. I just don't think journalists know what he's on. At this stage they would just be repeating the figure fabricated by the first journalist. The fact they're 'reporting' the same amount for his 2024 player option as they did for his 2023 component is solid evidence they just don't know.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

So this is one of the occasions that we DO believe what journos say players earn ?

Papa signs $2m x 3 years with Tigers. Nah not true. He went for less because the club is hopeless.

Reed signed $2.4m x4 years. Nah not true. He went for less because the club is hopeless.

Marata signed $3.2m x 4 years. Nah not true. He went for less because the club is hopeless.

Hodgo's option year of $400k ! Yeah that's true. The club is hopeless !

It's hard to keep up TBH.

Exactly

 

[Chipmunk]

I wonder if journos have access to financial records or if they just read the forums.

They have access to player managers. 95% of articles on these sort of things would be a collaboration between the journalist and the player manager.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

They have access to player managers.

The same player managers who have a responsibility to maintain the privacy of their clients? What incentive do they have to give honest figures to journos? And what incentive do the journos have to report this stuff accurately? They are selling entertainment not facts.

95% of articles on these sort of things would be a collaboration between the journalist and the player manager.

Surely it’s closer to 85% ffs

 

[Chipmunk]

The same player managers who have a responsibility to maintain the privacy of their clients? What incentive do they have to give honest figures to journos? And what incentive do the journos have to report this stuff accurately? They are selling entertainment not facts.

Surely it’s closer to 85% ffs

The same player managers break other laws, like the Corporations Act by inciting contract breaks during contract periods, so I assume they don't care about the privacy of their clients either.

There is a fine line between news and opinion, but news is fact, and the journo's in general report facts and not opinion. Although I do agree...this is blurring these days.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

The same player managers break other laws, like the Corporations Act by inciting contract breaks during contract periods, so I assume they don't care about the privacy of their clients either.

Caring about their clients keeps them employed. I'm not suggesting they are scrupulous, I am saying they are self-interested.

 

[Chipmunk]

Caring about their clients keeps them employed. I'm not suggesting they are scrupulous, I am saying they are self-interested.

Caring about their client, or making the the most money for the client, keeps them employed? I suspect that the latter is what it is, and that is what both parties care about.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Well sharing unverifiable private information with journalists does neither. It is all risk for no reward. It belongs in cartoons, where villains act without motive ffs

 

[Noise]

Well sharing unverifiable private information with journalists does neither. It is all risk for no reward. It belongs in cartoons, where villains act without motive ffs

You don’t think some player managers leak contract amounts?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

To what end?

 

[Avenger]

Unless the player or his agent publicly states the salary it’s all speculation. I reckon Hodgson is on $140k tops.

What do you reckon @Poupou Escobar ?

 

[lucablight]

Unless the player or his agent publicly states the salary it’s all speculation. I reckon Hodgson is on $140k tops.

What do you reckon @Poupou Escobar ?

Considering the minimum salary for an NRL player in the top 30 is 120k and given Hodgson’s level of experience I would be very surprised if he was only on 140k.

 

[the phantom menace]

You don’t think some player managers leak contract amounts?

To what end?

Same reason real estate agents (selectively) leak sales and auction prices into articles in compliant media - to artificially inflate future values (for their other clients, and to foster a sense of movement among the player market generally - which is where they earn their 10%s).

Ffs Pou - you try to tell us you're smarter than us dumb footy fans, lol.

 

[Avenger]

Considering the minimum salary for an NRL player in the top 30 is 120k and given Hodgson’s level of experience I would be very surprised if he was only on 140k.

Ok, $400k it is.

 

[Gazzamatta]

To what end?

To leverage it against another club.
$400k eh? Well you are going to have to sharpen your pencil Club B cause Club A is offering $450. Na! Never happens.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Unless the player or his agent publicly states the salary it’s all speculation. I reckon Hodgson is on $140k tops.

What do you reckon @Poupou Escobar ?

I reckon about $300k

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Same reason real estate agents (selectively) leak sales and auction prices into articles in compliant media - to artificially inflate future values (for their other clients, and to foster a sense of movement among the player market generally - which is where they earn their 10%s).

So you admit there is incentive to inflate prices while arguing they are feeding correct data to the media? You can't have it both ways ffs

Ffs Pou - you try to tell us you're smarter than us dumb footy fans, lol.

f**kING LOL!

 

[Poupou Escobar]

To leverage it against another club.
$400k eh? Well you are going to have to sharpen your pencil Club B cause Club A is offering $450. Na! Never happens.

"Trust me, they're offering $450k lol"

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Snookered ffs. You dopes need to go back to trolling me with dad jokes, because you fail at logic stuff.