Old natheel, you've been on ignore but some of your posts i've seen since taking you off are gold. Your a funny guy.
You are truely scared of the Dogs and so you should be. The eels are a joke. To bag the panthers is a joke when your club is in a far worse situation then theres. They have lost some stars (they had some to lose) pawwamatta have nothing outside of Hayne. He might do the runna himself if ricky tells him he doesn't rate him a fullback like he did in origin for the past few years.
Panthers are rebuilding, they have added FAR better players to their roster then the eels this year with Sika, Brown, Whare, Sereyago just off the top of my head. Who is pawwas prize recruit? They went for about 20 and landed Lussick. He will be a great help for Sandow!
If you seriously think the Dogs are going to have to let go Reynolds to add JT you really are clutching badly.
You asked would I let all those players go. Why would I? There is no need. Merely pointing out that there is PLENTY of money available to land whoever the club wants. Provided the player wants to join them. With Des & the club going forward i'd imagine most would prefer to.
You might hate the idea of it, you might say it won't happen. Though there is comments today as I said stating someone close to the deal is saying IF he leaves the Cowboys his preference is to go to the Dogs PURELY because he sees them as a genuine title chance. Why wouldn't he. Morris, Barba, Tony Williams, Kasiano, Perrett, Inu, Graham, Ennis ALL under contract for a couple seasons at least. Great kids coming through and a few of them wrapped up already.
It also says the Dogs are prepared to throw the 1 mil a year at him. Have a real think. Halatau, Turner won't be extended unless its for peanuts. They would be on a nice little pocket say 200k? Payne was on 160k as reported earlier... That is without discussing Hodkinson who you quote at 300k, I said it was reported and been said multiple times at 280k. Keating re-signed for a 2 year deal with 1 year in the clubs favour. He left the eels on 6 figures. He wouldn't of gone backwards.
That is PLENTY of money without even discussing the 3rd party, salary cap increase for 2013 and 2014. The club has already said they are not buying a replacement for Payne. That gives his amount, the cap increase for this year to extend people. An article on the Dogs & Thurston & Reynolds has stated the manager of Reynolds and the Dogs will sit down the DAY AFTER the new cap increase is all official. That means we could extend him this year, fatten up his pay packet alot and still upgrade his future years and works in our favour because its less to pay him in 2014. Same with some other youngsters i'd expect.
Then after all that we still have Pritchard who i'd think most would agree who has been great but is not a young player anymore, he is not hitting his prime and he is a forward. Someone who could be easily covered if lost by Tony Williams. Who is in his prime and under contract for years to come. He is on 400k reportedly our highest paid player outside of Tony Williams.
Eastwood, Tolman another two pretty well paid players that give us more options.
Realistically if we land JT it will be at the expense of Hodkinson, Keating, 3rd party, Salary cap increase for 2014.
Halatau & Turner move on for 2014 and the 2013 cap increase and Reynolds and a few other kids are easily covered for extensions. Tolman & Eastwood won't be demanding a huge upgrade and should also be easily covered.
I can understand why you find it so hard to understand. Though it's real easy. We don't have a halfback that is garbage at 500k. Hell Hodkinson & Keating together would be close. We don't have Hayne on 600k+ (yet to be extended), Hoppa coming on 700-800k+ and a bunch of other overrated hacks like Lussick on 200k+!
