Do the same job.So $11.5m cap
Backline goes
Edwards $850k
??
May $500k
Tago $600k
To'o $600k
??
Cleary $1.2m
$3.75m
So 1/3rd of the cap on a backline with still a 6 to find.
Again why would we add Turuva if someone can do the job for 1/3 of the price? Alamoti, McLean and Iongi are already contracted so we have budgeted them anyway
That is what the salary cap does
Why not release Iongi and Jesse McLean and keep Turuva.
We have a couple of other fullbacks coming thru in reserve .
You have said yourself Casey McLean is a couple of years off NRL. I’m not sure that is true but we have either failed to retain or allowed to leave another fine locally produced NRL quality player for a lousy $50-$100k a season.
If we move May back to the wing next season he is going to be earning $500k which seems odd given so many here promote this notion you can’t overpay for wingers.
Jack Cole is yet to truly provide a convincing argument in NSW Cup he is NRL quality either as a centre or a five eight. Trent Toelau is arguably been playing better and he is just train and trial deal.
I think it is a shame, I really do, to have not retained Turuva For a lousy $150k over three seasons.