Ridiculous money for Tapine. Either his manager is bluffing or the Raiders are stupid. What is Rickys fascination with backrowers all about? It's the same old story - we raise a good junior, another club comes in and bids more than we can afford (and way more than seems reasonable), and we either match it or watch them walk. This is how we end up with Aku contracts... but the alternative at this point seems to be playing with a team of reserve graders and an overpaid competant player here and there. We had to offer Gagai nearly bloody double what the Broncos offered him under the cap. The comp is so ridiculously unbalanced and seems to get far worse year on year.
It's quite remarkable that we're only paying our halves combination a tad over a million a year. I'm not a massive Hodkinson fan, but we did do good there.
