Vic Mackey
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Luai going on tour and taking a leadership role as capt will improve his game and sets him up well for the tigers season. Penrith Panthers are massive advocate of their rep players at the end of every season. More of those tigers players should be playing rep footy every year. They need to get out of that losing mentality and play alongside good players in a different environment. It will make them better players
I get what you’re saying mate, and I wouldn’t want the club to ask Luai not to go, however at the end of the day we’re paying him $6m. Our entire playing structure is going to revolve around him. Selfishly I was hoping he would forgo the tour and be at concord at the start of December. Our spine potentially can be one of the best in the game, I want them working on it as soon as possible. If he gets there mid Jan when it all starts back up again that’s like 4/5 weeks before the first trial. I know be’ll be in shape and probably the fittest guy at the club, but it basically makes everything we’ve done from the start of November redundant.