Marshall one year extension

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Manager dismisses Tigers' offer

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,22957302-23214,00.html

By Steve Mascord
December 21, 2007

BENJI Marshall will reject an approach from Wests Tigers coach Tim Sheens to re-sign for a year before the start of next season.

Manager Martin Tauber confirmed the approach after Sheens said on Wednesday that he wanted the club to prioritse the extension of Marshall's tenure beyond 2008.

Club football manager Warren McDonnell said that negotiations for a one-year extension had begun because Marshall needed to be clear of contractual distractions as he made his return from shoulder surgery.

But Tauber said: "I'm opposed to any negotiations with his existing club or a new club. He's got a point to prove about his fitness, his ability, his strength and his skill level.

"Negotiating ... is so wrong. The boy has to get back on the park.

"We're not going to sign a one-year deal. No way. It would be against my advice. He's 22.

"If he was to sign something in the area of a lucrative contract, it would be three or four years.

"How the hell can you be loyal to a club for one year?"

Sheens said after he re-signed with the Tigers, until the end of 2010, that he wanted Marshall tied up as soon as possible.

McDonnell added: "Tim and Benji have discussed what the best thing is for him.

"The best is that the kid concentrate on his footy, push himself out a year, get himself right again."

McDonnell said that injury had put Marshall "in the wilderness" for two years and he needed a distraction-free environment to recapture his best form.

"I've asked Martin to put his thinking cap on over the holidays, discuss it with Benji and get together again in the new year," he said.

"We want to get it out of the way and so does the kid.

"We're quite confident he can get back to his 2005 form and the kid wants to do that as well obviously."

Tauber said that Marshall would have to defy him if he were to agree to the one-year extension proposal.

"He doesn't need discussions," Tauber said.

"He needs to get back on the park and regain the skill level he had in 2005 and then we'll think about it.

"Everybody knows if the boy regains what he was in 2005, he can write his own ticket.

"He can go where he pleases. He and I both agree."

Marshall will start full contact work after Christmas, and he will be available for selection in the pre-season.

He doesnt deserve a contract extension imo......I see WTs point in trying to lock him up to keep him solely focussed on only footy this year....but an extension just tells him he can play crap and still get paid....and could cause friction in the camp.

 

[themanonthehill]

The words and actions of Tauber lead me to believe that if Benji comes back and plays well we are unlikely to retain him

 

[madunit]

I don't like the way he's constantly referred to as "the boy" of "the kid"

Sure he's young, but he's entering his 4th year in first grade, and is probably looked at as being one of the senior players in the team.

 

[themanonthehill]

He debuted in 03 ... i make it his 6th year of first grade

 

[APRIL BELLE]

LET HIM GO

So Benji wants to go on the open market. I can’t understand any club wanting to sign him. Surely, for the amount he would be asking, the risk of him getting injured is far too high. He just doesn’t have the body that cope with the physical aspects of the game. If the interchange rule had of been reduced 8 he might have been worth risking.

The word is the Titans are not going to resign Preston Campbell and make Benji a big offer. So let him go. There is no value in paying a big chunk of the salary cap to have someone who is likely to get injured. The Tigers would be better off spending the money on trying to recruit a halfback.

 

[bling_fc]

LET HIM GO

So Benji wants to go on the open market. I can’t understand any club wanting to sign him. Surely, for the amount he would be asking, the risk of him getting injured is far too high. He just doesn’t have the body that cope with the physical aspects of the game. If the interchange rule had of been reduced 8 he might have been worth risking.

The word is the Titans are not going to resign Preston Campbell and make Benji a big offer. So let him go. There is no value in paying a big chunk of the salary cap to have someone who is likely to get injured. The Tigers would be better off spending the money on trying to recruit a halfback.

Or dam well promote something if any from the junior ranks ffs

 

[APRIL BELLE]

Or dam well promote something if any from the junior ranks ffs

exactly

 

[Stagger eel]

LET HIM GO

So Benji wants to go on the open market. I can’t understand any club wanting to sign him. Surely, for the amount he would be asking, the risk of him getting injured is far too high. He just doesn’t have the body that cope with the physical aspects of the game. If the interchange rule had of been reduced 8 he might have been worth risking.

The word is the Titans are not going to resign Preston Campbell and make Benji a big offer. So let him go. There is no value in paying a big chunk of the salary cap to have someone who is likely to get injured. The Tigers would be better off spending the money on trying to recruit a halfback.

if you choose not to re-sign a bloke of his calibre and status than you should have a fall back plan, to just say, yeah..you can go Benji we'll spend the money on someone else but we're not sure who would be foolish and irresponsable on the clubs part.

bite the bullet and give him the 3 year deal, he is the guy to build a team around, it's been proven before and he'll prove it again.

 

[APRIL BELLE]

if you choose not to re-sign a bloke of his calibre and status than you should have a fall back plan, to just say, yeah..you can go Benji we'll spend the money on someone else but we're not sure who would be foolish and irresponsable on the clubs part.

bite the bullet and give him the 3 year deal, he is the guy to build a team around, it's been proven before and he'll prove it again.

 

[Stagger eel]

no response...just a quote?:?

 

[bling_fc]

That's what I was going to say

They have a junior half back a bit to young atm but then again so was Marshall

 

[Stagger eel]

That's what I was going to say

They have a junior half back a bit to young atm but then again so was Marshall

can you aford to pin your hopes on a untried untested junior with a bit of ability and replace him with a freak of talent and one of the marketable players in the NRL??

 

[APRIL BELLE]

Pivots are an integral part of the team. Clubs spend hundreds of thousands on recruitment staff, the costs in going to junior carnivals , courting prospective signings etc.

There should always has to be back up for keys positions. With Marshall's injury record if the club doesn't have a back up plan for him they should be playing in the Jim Beam Cup not the NRL

If the Tigers are only signing Marshall because there is no back up plan, then the club needs a big shake up.

The mail is he won't resign with the Tigers. He wants to play outside a decent half Back. He is keen to go the Gold Coast. He went to school their at keebra park and he believes his younger brother and mother would enjoy living there.

TheTigers better start thinking about a back up plan because 08 will be his last season sitting on the bench with the Tigers

 

[bling_fc]

can you aford to pin your hopes on a untried untested junior with a bit of ability and replace him with a freak of talent and one of the marketable players in the NRL??

Untried

He is a junior kangaroo atleast

Albeit played in prob the worst junior roo team lol

 

[Stagger eel]

Untried

He is a junior kangaroo

Albeit played in prob the worst junior roo team lol

and we've got the backup halfback for that side, and I don't rate him very highly..


ok, so what you're saying is that Benji's money will be used elsewhere rather on a replacement half/five-eight?

 

[joel caine number 1 fan]

and we've got the backup halfback for that side, and I don't rate him very highly..


ok, so what you're saying is that Benji's money will be used elsewhere rather on a replacement half/five-eight?

Moltzen is rated pretty highly but there are others too

Wade Dunley
Blake Lazarus
and theres apparently another freakish Talent comming through i dont remember hes name but hes also from keebra park and hes in our under 20s next year but hes a bit young

i would rather sign Benji though but im worried the only way hes gonna stay injury free is at another club

and is it worth giving 350-400 on a guy that might not even play 25% of the games and we would probley lose all our young talent cause of it

 

[madunit]

if Benji doesn't perform and gets his shoulder injured again, its time to chance your arm and send him out onto the open market. I dare say he wouldn't get offered the same money as what would've been thrown his way after 05.

 

[alien]

The mail is he won't resign with the Tigers. He wants to play outside a decent half Back. He is keen to go the Gold Coast. He went to school their at keebra park and he believes his younger brother and mother would enjoy living there.

dont forget his good mate scott prince is there too

 

[super_coach]

They tied Sheens up till 2010, why not Benji. Cant see why they would expect him to sign for one year.

Although his manager is taking one hell of a risk, one more shoulder injury and he is worth as much as Peter Lewis on the open market. Yet he could probably stich up a 350 a year contact for three years if he signed now.The old saying a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

As much as Sheens isnt my favourite coach, he will be handy in this contract battle

 

[themanonthehill]

This is gonna be the Prince thing all over again.
He'll be tapped up by that scumbag turd sattler and be playing for the chargers
Having them back in is so great