Rumours and Stuff

[Stevie]

Meehan would be a cheekie pick up. Any word where he will end up?

Pretty sure he is a done deal with Moanly.

 

[The Colonel]

Eels target former international dancer

The Eels are set to sign a former international hip hop dancer from the Titans who could prove a major surprise packet in 2017.

Rising centre Greg Leleisiuao is close to agreeing with the Eels after playing some great footy for the Titans in the past two seasons in the NYC.

The 20-year-old showed his class in last year’s Auckland Nines and has been knocking on the door of first grade selection for the past year.

Leleisiuao has quick feet – and not just on the football field.
For two straight years as a teenager, he flew to Las Vegas in the USA to compete against the best the world had to offer in the world’s biggest hip hop dancing contest.

Leleisiuao was born in New Zealand, has Samoan heritage and played his junior footy for Logan in Queensland.
Mark him down as an early dark horse for NRL selection in 2017.

It’s been a bad week for the Titans – they have lost two of their best prospects in Leleisiuao and Brian Kelly (Manly) as they balance their salary cap.

http://rugbyleagueweek.com.au/moles...14923575215549&adbpl=fb&adbpr=110919635615955

 

[Poupou Escobar]

If the Titans want to keep him you'd think the gaining club are offering a top 25 spot.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Since when has "Hip hop dancer" been a thing?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

You obviously don't work for Centrelink, Gary.

 

[oldmancraigy]

How do we pronounce the hip hop dancers name?

Le-le-i-si-way-o?

 

[El Diablo]

can't wait to see his post try celebrations

 

[Gronk]

Is Paul Gallen really fighting Jnr Paulo ?

Thoughts from merkins that know about boxing ?

 

[hineyrulz]

Is Paul Gallen really fighting Jnr Paulo ?

Thoughts from merkins that know about boxing ?

Hard to tell, Paulo hasn't fought anyone while Captain Peptide has acquitted himself well so far I don't think he's fought anyone much chop. Hope Junior belts the snot out of him.

 

[Stevie]

Isn't he fighting Peni Terepo?

 

[Gronk]

Isn't he fighting Peni Terepo?

With a fight of his own on December 9 against Junior Paulo to prepare for, it wasn’t all fun and games on Gallen’s holiday.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl...g/news-story/2e66a9cfa826e7d5948d4f78aca0a451

Peni Terepo will become the latest NRL player to lace on the boxing gloves as he takes on six-fight professional Randall Rayment at the Ladbrokes Star of the Ring Charity Fight Night in December.

http://www.nospam47.com/au/league/n...nto-the-boxing-ring/r3kok4twzm221v5n64dm4nqok

 

[strider]

And bubbler boy is taking on little trex arms

 

[Gronk]

TEST stars Jason Taumalolo and Valentine Holmes have dropped a bombshell on the NRL by flying to America on Monday for secret trials with NFL clubs.

It can be revealed Taumalolo and Holmes are on a plane to the US _ just hours after the pair squared off in the Australia-New Zealand Four Nations final in England on Monday morning.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...s/news-story/d9cc3f22b12434de0b7ab276896ad26a

 

[Twizzle]

If they need an incentive to re-sign long serving players, loyalty has nothing to do with it.

in your disloyal world, perhaps

it obviously means a lot to some people

 

[Poupou Escobar]

in your disloyal world, perhaps

it obviously means a lot to some people

As usual you've missed the point.

If the clubs were loyal to their players they wouldn't need incentives to retain the long serving individuals. And if players were loyal they would take less to stay. That's the whole point of loyalty - paying some sort of cost for the benefit of those to whom you are supposedly loyal. Anything else isn't loyalty.

 

[Twizzle]

lol

its always the other guy that has missed the point with you

clubs want a discount for investing many years into their juniors and deem it a loyalty bonus or what ever you'd like to call it and some players just dont want to play against their own club and that is the point, its not complicated

or shall I contact the NRLPA and tell them their players are wrong

 

[Twizzle]

TEST stars Jason Taumalolo and Valentine Holmes have dropped a bombshell on the NRL by flying to America on Monday for secret trials with NFL clubs.

It can be revealed Taumalolo and Holmes are on a plane to the US _ just hours after the pair squared off in the Australia-New Zealand Four Nations final in England on Monday morning.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...s/news-story/d9cc3f22b12434de0b7ab276896ad26a

lol

secret trials, until the Telegraph blab it to everyone, and thats assuming its true

 

[emjaycee]

Loyalty is a two-way street. Both the players and the clubs need to recognise that. By incentivising the clubs through cap discounts, the proposal by the RLPA and NRL is one-way loyalty in the direction of the players, at a cost to the clubs. Where is the player loyalty to the club that employed them for 8, 10 or 15 years?

I have always been of the opinion that you REWARD loyalty but that

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IMHO clubs should reward loyalty to their long serving players by keeping them instead of culling them because they get too expensive and get in the way of future plans. And players can return that loyalty by recognising that their worth to the club is less in the latter years of their careers and taking a reduction in salary to compensate and show some loyalty.

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[emjaycee]

lol

its always the other guy that has missed the point with you

clubs want a discount for investing many years into their juniors and deem it a loyalty bonus or what ever you'd like to call it and some players just dont want to play against their own club and that is the point, its not complicated

or shall I contact the NRLPA and tell them their players are wrong

Don't you mean "clubs want a discount for employing the player for many years and the players don't want to reduce their salary so the NRLPA in representing the greedy players is wanting the clubs to fit the bill for them and call it a loyalty bonus or whatever"?

 

[oldmancraigy]

Loyalty is a two-way street. Both the players and the clubs need to recognise that. By incentivising the clubs through cap discounts, the proposal by the RLPA and NRL is one-way loyalty in the direction of the players, at a cost to the clubs. Where is the player loyalty to the club that employed them for 8, 10 or 15 years?

I have always been of the opinion that you REWARD loyalty but that

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IMHO clubs should reward loyalty to their long serving players by keeping them instead of culling them because they get too expensive and get in the way of future plans. And players can return that loyalty by recognising that their worth to the club is less in the latter years of their careers and taking a reduction in salary to compensate and show some loyalty.

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But how is the proposal stopping the process you propose?

Given that you can't buy loyalty, you can still give clubs an incentive to keep an old warhorse around if he is salary cap free, rather than make that painful decision to pay a younger bloke the salary and start moving forward. As it stands, unless a senior player is willing to take a significant paycut, the incentive for the clubs is quite low, and the clubs that WANT to be loyal will end up shooting themselves in the foot by wasting precious cap space on vets who don't produce the same value as spending the money elsewhere might.