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hineyrulz

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Blah blah yeah I did.

Whilst I don't think that he's going to feature in the Eels Hall of Fame, I certainly don't think that he deserves the Moses Mbye roasting that he's coping on here. As I said, if we only paid high 3's for him on average, then he's good value every day of the week.
You just dribbled excuses like you normally do, hardly surprising. But yeah you did lol.
 

hindy111

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If Waqa has a Penrith contract until the end of 2023, why would we have taken full frieght for those years (but not the first 2)?

Talk to someone on the board mate. What I was told. Perhaps that's the deal the organised. They may of said you can have him for the rest of the year for 150k and following 2yrs for 350k but after that he is yours.
2019 we looked a chance to take the title. We needed a centre badly. Perhaps we where happy to strike the deal and evened it out over the 5yrs.

To suggest no other club was interested is lunacy.
 

Chipmunk

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Funnily enough I did my Level 2 Coaching Course many years ago in the berra, when Bellyache was still involved at the Raiders. I'd never heard someone just casually drop F and Cs like Bellyache did in random conversations during his presentation. He must really struggle in press conferences not to swear. There is no way the amount he swore that someone can naturally just stop that over night.
 

hindy111

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Penrith last re-signed him in late 2018, after a pretty good season, but at the time we signed him (mid-2019) he was very poor, and already 24 and a half years old. There's no reason we would've paid top dollar to take him off their books.

And clubs don't 'take over' the contract of a player when they sign him from another club. The old club agrees a payout (which goes on their cap over however many years they agree to) and the new club agrees a contract as normal, which has nothing to do with the old contract.

So they ignored approx 7 or 8yrs of footy with the club and based it all on the last 8mths and realised he wasn't worth it?

Ffs. They wanted to free money and moved on guys on over who they could still move on and get reasonable value for.


Its a different scenario than N.Brown. he isnold and a has been and no body wants him. It was by far the worse extension in our clubs history. I even commented how he was slowing down prior and showed signs. 2022 was a guy who played the same level as a Makatoa. Unsure why people pick on Waqa. At worse he is on 150k-200k over. Plenty of games he still plays above that. N.Brown is 600k min wage level guy now.
 

Poupou Escobar

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Funnily enough I did my Level 2 Coaching Course many years ago in the berra, when Bellyache was still involved at the Raiders. I'd never heard someone just casually drop F and Cs like Bellyache did in random conversations during his presentation. He must really struggle in press conferences not to swear. There is no way the amount he swore that someone can naturally just stop that over night.
My level of sweariness depends on my audience and how much I've had to drink.
 

Poupou Escobar

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They may of said you can have him for the rest of the year for 150k and following 2yrs for 350k but after that he is yours.
They didn't get to decide how much we paid him. That was between us and the player. How much they paid him out, and over how many years, was between them and the player. Two separate negotiations.
 

Poupou Escobar

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It was by far the worse extension in our clubs history. I even commented how he was slowing down prior and showed signs.
He was in good form when we re-signed him (May 2021), which was after we had pulled our better offer. He had just turned 28. This was announced ten days after he injured his hip pointer but would've been agreed beforehand. He played through it for the rest of the year because he's a tough merkin (only missed one game), but hasn't been the same since.



 
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