Craig Johnston
First Grade
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Are you missing the point on purpose?
Because the Knights have cheap fringies (including Rochow) and backups, they are able to spend more on established first graders. The fact they have no merkin as expensive as Jarryd Hayne also lets them spend more across the squad.
And just because we'd kill to have Buderus doesn't mean he's an elite hooker. He's obviously still up to NRL standard, but he's a shadow of the player he was.
That's why he's retiring.
so your point is alluding to the value of players, not wether or not they are "stars" (its possible to be a "star" and not be earning 600k+ eg barba last year) or "fringe first graders" (sandow and norman were playing reggies btw).
rochow is not a fringe first grader, he's well rated.
buderus IS an elite hooker, he's retiring because his body can't hold up the recovery, that's off field related, on the field he is again one of if not the best hooker running around right at this point in time