Rumoured Targets 3

[Zoidberg]

If Daniel was on 500k or less and playing to last nights standard minimum every week, I’d keep him.

 

[macavity]

If Daniel was on 500k or less and playing to last nights standard minimum every week, I’d keep him.

Which begs the question for both of them - why haven't we tried to extend at a lower average.

 

[slotmachine]

Why would you extend someone who only started having a go when they needed to find a new club?

 

[Rod]

Toohey just said Ponga is on 1.2 this season but it goes up to 1.5 next year.

I think 1.2 is defensible but 300k is a considerable upgrade when the cap is only going up 150k total next year. No wonder we're scrambling cap wise.

 

[perverse]

Toohey just said Ponga is on 1.2 this season but it goes up to 1.5 next year.

I think 1.2 is defensible but 300k is a considerable upgrade when the cap is only going up 150k total next year. No wonder we're scrambling cap wise.

By the time we get to next year he'll be on 1.7m...

 

[Apey]

Toohey just said Ponga is on 1.2 this season but it goes up to 1.5 next year.

I think 1.2 is defensible but 300k is a considerable upgrade when the cap is only going up 150k total next year. No wonder we're scrambling cap wise.

Thats funny, we've been told for two years he's on 1.4M.

 

[Apey]

Why would you extend someone who only started having a go when they needed to find a new club?

Are memories really that short in here?

Dude had a good game against the 3rd worst team in the comp missing two of their first choice props.

 

[perverse]

Thats funny, we've been told for two years he's on 1.4M.

He earns eleventy schplicket rubles every 2 1/2 full moons.

 

[Rod]

Thats funny, we've been told for two years he's on 1.4M.

I never trusted that 1.4, seemed like a chinese whispers kind of situation and never confirmed by anyone who really knows. I'm more inclined to believe Toohey, seems unlikely he'd throw specific numbers like that out without knowing.

 

[PhilGould]

The bigger issue is that 100% of his salary is on the cap, there's no TPAs by his/Andre's own insistence. Doubt there's any other $1m+ players whose contracts don't include significant TPAs, let alone none at all.

 

[Woody90]

Thats funny, we've been told for two years he's on 1.4M.

Are we sure he’s not on a back-ended deal that averages out at 1.4mil per year?

 

[Apey]

Are we sure he’s not on a back-ended deal that averages out at 1.4mil per year?

I'm sure that's it, but it's not the same thing.

Anyway Toohey stated 1.2M this year and 1.5M for 2025 & 2026. Nothing about 2027. Not sure what he was on last year, it was the first year of the new contract, probably 1.2M as well.

 

[slotmachine]

I'm sure that's it, but it's not the same thing.

Anyway Toohey stated 1.2M this year and 1.5M for 2025 & 2026. Nothing about 2027. Not sure what he was on last year, it was the first year of the new contract, probably 1.2M as well.

If his deal was 1.2, 1.2, 1.5, 1.5, 1.5 it averages out at 1.4.

So everyone can be right.

 

[Woody90]

My biggest concern is that our current squad is so bad and yet we’ve still needed to put Ponga on a back-ended contract.

 

[ryan.a87]

Fingers crossed we can drop some deadwood in the off season, front load some of pongas contract next year, so 2026/27 we can hit the market very hard

Yes, we are about to start a rebuild again and I’ve already written off next year