You bunch of f*&^ing fairweather friends.
Tamazoid, give yourself a triple. How were the 'tahs going before Rat was injured?
And, in case any of you geniuses haven't noticed, we ARE in a re-building phase. We're gonna be stuck here for a fair while too, given that we have a bunch of dopes (insert names like G. Pierce, B. Pierce here) handling our recruitment and football club management.
And, if my mail on his contract is right, then Mat would be a fool NOT to have re-signed with the ARU.
Put it this way - I hear he is on DOUBLE what ALL of us punters would have been willing to pay him to return to the Sharks. I'm led to believe it's above what even the elite SL players (Fittler, ET, Daley) were getting in the 1996-1999 era.
Put yourself in his shoes. You have a young family. You are working for a Holden dealership selling cars on about $50K. The Ford bloke up the road offers you $25K. You're a die hard Ford man. You WANT to sell Fords (although God only knows why you'd want to... :lol: ) No special favours, same job but a truckoad more hours (well, how many games do the Rah Rahs have to play each year compared with the NRL blokes?). Maybe Ford Man will throw in a nicer demo for you to drive (ie, a nice 5/8th spot?), but if someone wants to buy it then you lose your car.
Come on, would ANY of you 'do it for love'???
Yeah, thought so.
He's not coming back, there's not much we can do about it, if you want to get evil about it then look at our club management and the management of our code, not at a young bloke who has accepted an offer that was simply too good to refuse.
