IMO performance based contract, he was better than any of the current batch of wingers we have.
I think the club has missed an opportunity not casting some bait out for Nene.
I mean where is the downside? Like Snow Dragon says, a ‘low risk option’
There’s astute recruiting officers who see salary cap advantages in taking in out of favour players ie AFB and Suli, who were both up there with the best in thier respective positions in 2019.
When Nene left, he was of a calibre that attracted big $, cost wise it was the right option to let him go. At present Nene no longer attracts big $ (due to a serious injury and discretions) and thus becomes a risk buy but also a possible bargain buy.
Okay Nene missed training, he was involved in a traffic offence, he’s developed a bad attitude? Meanwhile back at the ranch sides are benefiting from the performances of Suli, Whighton, Walker, Packer, Lodge and without trying you could rattle off a host of others, many of which committed rather serious offences as opposed to Nenes indisgresions.
His record is that he’s played 95 FG games over several seasons without many hiccups. So IMO to banish Nene and keep the door closed and it appears that is what the club has done is narrow minded.
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In recent seasons our club has mostly gone with a low cost option of developing JP and Rav. IMO this option has attributed to our recent failures. IMO wingers in other teams have been prominent in their teams performances whereas ours have been one of our weak links. IMO our wingers have failed to perform at the standard of our prior wingers in Nene (95 fg games, 9 internationals) and Nightingale (Long nrl and international career)
And I know people will say that Nene was a slug and Nightingale past it, and I’m not saying they were the best wingers but with the meterage they got us and the error free reliability of Nightingale meant that atleast they weren’t weak links.
Now we enter 2020 with a potential tall athletic winger in Saab who may benefit greatly from the rule change about penalties for mid air tackles on attacking players and a hope that Rav and JP progress. But Rav and JP aren’t tall and so far have dubious hands. I suspect they will both improve but I can’t see them having the aerial skills, height and athleticism of Nene. Time will tell but to me Nene would of been a low risk option.
