High profile players been linked to our club is just smoke and mirrors to seem as though they're proactive in the market when really they're probably drawing up contracts for Dureau and Rogers as we speak.
It's standard practice for low budget, small market teams all around the world, in any sporting landscape, to doctor PR stories about potential big name signings just to appease their fans. ( It usually works because people generally are simple, and like to believe what they read! )
Its a technique constantly used by small market sporting teams internationally to make it appear like the team are doing all they can to attract massive talent.
Last week it was the Knights going public about JT.
Today it was Canberra talking about wanting to sign Sonny Bill Williams.
Overseas in MLB its the Baltimore Orioles and Oakland A's doing similar things. It happens in English soccer.
A twist on this PR is player agents using sporting clubs to push their own players publicity and price up even though they never intend to sign there at any stage. See: Titans and Robbie Farah. Souths and Lote Tuqiri.
The one common denominator regarding the whole thing is this: Teams never go public if they truly want to sign a player.
Going public is simply PR to appease a simple world.
