Love to know where this info has come from Swarzey???
From the outside looking in, it seems we are no hope of retaining the ones we want.
I've also heard we are absolutely no hope of matching the Bulldogs deal. I really can't see anything changing. As No Name suggested, give a deadline to them and then wave goodbye if they choose to leave. Can't have them playing firsts for us.
General spin I suppose but it's better then sitting with our heads in the dumps believing it's all doom and gloom because I swear to f**king god that's all people do around here. Does help that it fits what we've seen printed in the media before about the manager doing the deal in a dodgy manner.
From the outside it looks so bad because all the club has done over the past decade is make shit decision after shit decision; it's expected to think it's impossible but any one person with a shred of sanity will do whatever it takes to retain at least Sione.
Of course we can't match the Bulldogs, they've got more third party deals lined up then perhaps our entire f**king squad combined, but I highly, highly doubt they're going to go because the dollar is higher. From everything we've heard, they don't seem to be the sort of boys to do so. They're looking out for their future and if we can offer that on a dollar that is respectable, then I'd have to be at the other end of the spectrum to think they would turn us down.
Honestly, it's pathetic that people have settled on the idea that they're going to go regardless and instead of hoping that perhaps this is going to be different, that for once this is going to go well for us would rather slit their wrists and think it's all over.
