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Did Sam write that ….One club is adamant Parramatta’s Ryan Matterson has been talked about as being excess baggage at the Eels, while the same is being said of Canterbury’s Corey Allan and Kyle Flanagan.
However, all three might be a hard sell given they are all on good money and not exactly coming off the best of seasons.
Matterson is on close to $500,000 and has a worrying concussion history, and two of the clubs with money to spend on their salary cap for next season are the Tigers and Dragons.
Matterson had a fallout with Michael Maguire at the Tigers, while the backrower the Dragons are keen on is Matterson’s teammate Marata Niukore.
Regardless, Parramatta is facing a desperate fight to keep a number of players. Reed Mahoney has already been linked to Brisbane and Canterbury.
What makes Mahoney’s situation particularly interesting is that the in-demand dummy half’s agent is Sam Ayoub. He also looks after Clint Gutherson and Junior Paulo, who are off contract at the end of next season.
It is unlikely the Eels will get away with trying to lowball Ayoub on any of the three, like they were accused of doing last time Gutherson’s contract was being negotiated.
So far the two parties have vowed that they don’t want this to get ugly like it did last time, but time will be the judge on that.
The Eels captain is unlikely to want to even consider leaving Brad Arthur, but Gutherson is the type of player who could also be a good fit at Canterbury given the Bulldogs have only signed former Dragon Matt Dufty on a one-year deal.
I hope you are right, but I am yet to be convinced by him.
He leaks more than Gary after more than 20 craft beers.
Constant, fluro yellow and smelling slightly of an abattoir?
I would say Eels will have to pay around $800k to keep him and if Gutho's manager wants $1m (imo he is not worth that) I'd say club will not re-sign him. Using my trusty (but not always accurate) crystal ball if above happens for '23 we'll have backline of:
Which club do you reckon would pay 1m for Gutho?
Why????
Dean Widders is still one of my favourite players. He is, I believe, still associated with the club as coach of the woman's team.
One of the poorer performing teams, maybe Warriors, and move Reece Walsh to the halves where he is better suited imo.
Tedesco apparently said the name of a TV series.
The same way that saying Planet of the Apes to a black person is ?
