Rumoured Targets 3

[Caped Crusader]

Yep June 30 transfer window has closed now

We are stuck with this shit squad for the remainder of 2017 now

 

[PhilGould]

Wayne has pulled the Broncos offer for Ese'ese. Sounds like he may have been holding out to see if Brisbane would offer more.

Direct quotes from his agent:

“The Broncos have pulled the deal,” Mammino said.

“Herman honestly hadn’t made a final decision on his future … but after three weeks of the offer being on the table, it’s no longer an option.

“Herman has no choice now but to leave.

“Herman is in shock with what’s happened. Newcastle are definitely interested, but the Broncos have been good to Herman and we were hoping we might be able to come to a resolution.

“We haven’t agreed to terms as yet with Newcastle, but it looks like that’s where he will end up now.”

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...e/news-story/0e8ca4a761aac78658040b666cbe4e7b

 

[Spot On]

Well it would seem Josh Massoud was closer to the mark than we all thought. These blokes (Herman and his manager) have been playing with us the past 3 weeks, seemingly confident they were going to pull an extra 100K out of the kitty up there no doubt.

Look, I rate Herman as I've written before many months ago, but I just can't stand the way he and the manager come across in that article.

The bloke has (reportedly) a 1.4 million dollar deal with us just waiting to have ink applied and they were still fart arsing around up there trying to get a few extra dollars out of Wayne?

If he comes, he'd want to stand up and earn that coin.

Apparently James Roberts' manager is after a big pay day as well. Says he can get 600K plus elsewhere. Brisbane sure have a lot of blokes on big dollars..

 

[Spot On]

Hopefully Mooney and Brown have thrown offers to Joe O and Tevita just to keep the boys in Brisbane honest when negotiating with those 2.

 

[perverse]

Well it would seem Josh Massoud was closer to the mark than we all thought. These blokes (Herman and his manager) have been playing with us the past 3 weeks, seemingly confident they were going to pull an extra 100K out of the kitty up there no doubt.

Look, I rate Herman as I've written before many months ago, but I just can't stand the way he and the manager come across in that article.

The bloke has (reportedly) a 1.4 million dollar deal with us just waiting to have ink applied and they were still fart arsing around up there trying to get a few extra dollars out of Wayne?

If he comes, he'd want to stand up and earn that coin.

Apparently James Roberts' manager is after a big pay day as well. Says he can get 600K plus elsewhere. Brisbane sure have a lot of blokes on big dollars..

Judging by the aptitude that most players display, I would say that 99% of it is manager driven. With negotiations, players would generally heed the advice of their managers I would imagine, particularly at younger ages. If I believed that player managers acted morally and solely on behalf of their clients interests then I'd probably even say that's more a good thing than bad - especially from the players point of view. If I were Herman, I'd be pretty pissed at my manager right now - especially if he had told him he ultimately wanted to stay at the Broncos.

 

[Sacrolishes]

Judging by the aptitude that most players display, I would say that 99% of it is manager driven. With negotiations, players would generally heed the advice of their managers I would imagine, particularly at younger ages. If I believed that player managers acted morally and solely on behalf of their clients interests then I'd probably even say that's more a good thing than bad - especially from the players point of view. If I were Herman, I'd be pretty pissed at my manager right now - especially if he had told him he ultimately wanted to stay at the Broncos.

At first I was thinking "geez do t be excited about coming" but you are right about the managers driving this course of action. I guess not all players are thrilled about leaving their preferred club, but if he does end up signing here I hope he is professional enough to put in each week and hopefully have a squad worthy of a much better year then last couple years.


Side note, interesting nothing has been confirmed about Watson & Tigers. 10 would have past by now I think and Brown did say on his Q&A (which was fantastic btw, love how he handles himself and this job) that he's quietly confident on announcing signings in next 2-3weeks.

Twiddling thumb time.

 

[Johns Magic]

Wayne has pulled the Broncos offer for Ese'ese. Sounds like he may have been holding out to see if Brisbane would offer more.

Direct quotes from his agent:

“The Broncos have pulled the deal,” Mammino said.

“Herman honestly hadn’t made a final decision on his future … but after three weeks of the offer being on the table, it’s no longer an option.

“Herman has no choice now but to leave.

“Herman is in shock with what’s happened. Newcastle are definitely interested, but the Broncos have been good to Herman and we were hoping we might be able to come to a resolution.

“We haven’t agreed to terms as yet with Newcastle, but it looks like that’s where he will end up now.”

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...e/news-story/0e8ca4a761aac78658040b666cbe4e7b

Play with fire, be willing to get burnt merkin. This is serious bullshit towards us to carry on like this publicly.

Not a fan of the above and will find it harder to cheer for him now.

 

[Johns Magic]

Judging by the aptitude that most players display, I would say that 99% of it is manager driven. With negotiations, players would generally heed the advice of their managers I would imagine, particularly at younger ages. If I believed that player managers acted morally and solely on behalf of their clients interests then I'd probably even say that's more a good thing than bad - especially from the players point of view. If I were Herman, I'd be pretty pissed at my manager right now - especially if he had told him he ultimately wanted to stay at the Broncos.

When we are the highest bidder and they work on commission why would his manager steer him away from us?

 

[Volcom6685]

Play with fire, be willing to get burnt merkin. This is serious bullshit towards us to carry on like this publicly.

Not a fan of the above and will find it harder to cheer for him now.

Pretty sure the moment he starts with Daffiti and they're taking hit up after each other you will be cheering

 

[Johns Magic]

Pretty sure the moment he starts with Daffiti and they're taking hit up after each other you will be cheering

I will be cheering harder if we have Graham starting and Ese'ese off the bench.

 

[perverse]

When we are the highest bidder and they work on commission why would his manager steer him away from us?

I assume his manager thought he could get a bigger deal out of a Brisbane. Historically speaking it hasn't been a bad move to play us off a richer club. Turns out he was wrong, and now Wayne and the Broncos have spat the dummy and pulled the offer. Fair play to them, wish we were in a position where we could afford make such examples of talented players.

Whatever has actually happened behind closed doors, it seems to have worked in our favour for once.

 

[Pedge1971]

Meh sign hom and be done. We cannot be precious any more. But some strong words to the prick on the way in

Here is the rub. Broncos have now formally cut ties. His next contract is important cause if he does not aim up that is 2 clubs that have gotten rid of him.

He is too young and unproven to be precious with us.

 

[Old dog]

We ain't got him yet, if he wanted to stay in Brisbane he might crawl back and ask for rethink on deal offered

 

[Pedge1971]

More importantly, where is the outrage from his manager and rlpa given Wayne has dropped him and he looks done this year at the Broncs. Tapine anyone?

 

[perverse]

More importantly, where is the outrage from his manager and rlpa given Wayne has dropped him and he looks done this year at the Broncs. Tapine anyone?

Give them a minute to react, but yeah will be interesting to see if they stick their noise in.

 

[Spot On]

More importantly, where is the outrage from his manager and rlpa given Wayne has dropped him and he looks done this year at the Broncs. Tapine anyone?

Seemingly it's only Newcastle that cop a serve over that sort of stuff as Brown found out very early on.

Shall be interesting to watch.

 

[Burwood]

It's after June 30- he or his manager can't exactly push for an early release.

 

[Pedge1971]

It's after June 30- he or his manager can't exactly push for an early release.

Can if Wayno has openly told him he goes back to reggies for signing with another team.

 

[Burwood]

Can if Wayno has openly told him he goes back to reggies for signing with another team.

It doesn't matter what Bennett or the RLPA say- nothing can change the fact that there are no player transfers after June 30.

 

[Seage]

Pretty sure the RLPA is too busy supplying free flat-peaked caps to Origin players to worry about enforcing the same standards the Knights were held to.