. News that Luke Brooks and Mitchell Moses will be taking-up their one-year options to stay at Wests Tigers should come as no surprise; given what they stand to earn in 2017.
Both are guaranteed $550,000 – far more money than they could now hope to earn elsewhere given the team’s awful form of late.
Brooks was sounded out by Canterbury this year, while Moses’s management met with Penrith late last year. Souths also briefly entertained making a bid for Moses.
But all those leads now appear buried, leaving the pair with little option but to take the money on offer at their current club.
The irony is that they’ll probably have to accept a pay-cut to stay – at least for 2017.
The Tigers approached both players about their willingness to sacrifice $100,000 for next season several months ago.
The money would be made up in future seasons of a multi-year extension; meaning the Tigers will be sticking with them for the medium term at least.
That spells more interesting times for current coach Jason Taylor.
Apart from Robbie Farah, there’s no player at Concord who’s opposed Taylor’s philosophy more than Moses.
