Ho hum! You get vey boring sometimes rhyno. I think you need to accept that you are just jealous of Penrith.Ivan getting rid of the players that ain’t in Nathan’s little clique Blake, Maloney, RCG etc
Ho hum! You get vey boring sometimes rhyno. I think you need to accept that you are just jealous of Penrith.Ivan getting rid of the players that ain’t in Nathan’s little clique Blake, Maloney, RCG etc
Now he wants Nathan to be captain bad signs for the panthers
I’ll be getting on them to win the wooden spoon next year
Ho hum!
Come on Herb. I know its Sunday but no excuses for posting idiocy. It doesn't matter whether you asked or they blurted.
The $400k comment is intended solely to discredit Gould and deflect any responsibility for the decision from the board.
I'm not sure how you're so "sure that RCG was way overpaid, and that's on Gus." At the time of signing, RCG had come off the 2017 season where he played 5 games for Australia then started for NSW in 2018. Since he re-signed about 3 weeks later, these achievements would be factored into his contract.
More concerning is that Hook was able to get more out of RCG than Ivan (like the rest of the squad), to the point where RCG reportedly told Spud Carroll that Ivan was off him. It's more likely Ivan considered RCG and the team weren't putting in and couldn't understand why last years intensity was not there after such an enjoyable low-key preseason.
All we know is that Ivan backed against himself getting RCG back to his prior form.
@Abacus
Here’s RCG’s form in the first ten weeks of 2018, this was before he broke his jaw.
89 meters per game! Down from the 130m the previous year.
Gus had to totally ignore this rubbish 10 weeks and decide to give RCG a massive 5 year deal on the basis of his 2017 form. And to top it off he gives him the big deal after his broken jaw.
Note RCG signed his deal in late June 2018.
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He had a good year then clocked off. The jaw was an easy out
His form did get worse yet again after the broken jaw, but it wasn’t good beforehand. He had one good game in the whole of 2018 where he ran for 145m
His form did get worse yet again after the broken jaw, but it wasn’t good beforehand. He had one good game in the whole of 2018 where he ran for 145m
I'm guessing this is the stat Ivan is looking to replace.
Now he wants Nathan to be captain bad signs for the panthers
I’ll be getting on them to win the wooden spoon next year
So if we believe the "jounos" we will be paying near 1 MIL of our cap to other clubs next year (RCG, DWZ, Blake). Unlikely but if anywhere near true.....ouch.
According to journos its for the next 5 years too.So if we believe the "jounos" we will be paying near 1 MIL of our cap to other clubs next year (RCG, DWZ, Blake). Unlikely but if anywhere near true.....ouch.
So if we believe the "jounos" we will be paying near 1 MIL of our cap to other clubs next year (RCG, DWZ, Blake). Unlikely but if anywhere near true.....ouch.
The club has to be releasing bullshit inflated figures to save face in getting rid of some of our best playersNo chance it would happen. Defeats the purpose of releasing them
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...g/news-story/be4cb76e0ca5bc3067df9de90739b38d“I’d find it very, very hard to pay him that sort of money,” Gould told Channel 9’s 100% Footy.
“To get him out of Brisbane you have to pay ($700,000). I don’t think Brisbane should have to pay that to keep him.
“He’s a great young talent, but if you’re going be paying people that sort of money, they’ve got to be contributing to a 70 per cent win rate, they’ve got to be a pointscorer, a points creator.
The club has to be releasing bullshit inflated figures to save face in getting rid of some of our best players
Moylan was on ~$750k ffs.
Cartwright was on less than him.
Yet we're supposed to believe Gus suddenly decides f**k it... let's pay a winger more than these guys and make RCG our highest paid player in history by a fair margin?
Despite Gus publicly declaring shit like this:
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...g/news-story/be4cb76e0ca5bc3067df9de90739b38d
Likewise he didnt holdback saying Hunt was not worth $1m a season. That wingers arent worth big money and so on. Whether his views are right or wrong is irrelevant to the fact that they suggest there is no way he would pay DWZ $800K a season or RCG $1.2m a season. There's no way he would sign players on 5 year deals backloaded with the hope the cap would go up by 50 percent.
Not to say he didnt overpay guys. He clearly did. But why would he backload 5 year deals? When the first years of the deal are already higher than players could get elsewhere. The longer deals are supposed to be sweeteners to get players to stay for less or accept our 5 year deal over someone elses 3 or 4 year deal. I just refuse to believe Gus was anywhere near as incompetent as the media are making out.