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A bunch of the winning SG Ball side will be 21 next year. If they're not ready to be backups next year will they ever be?
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A bunch of the winning SG Ball side will be 21 next year. If they're not ready to be backups next year will they ever be?
It's just managers seeing an opportunity to renegotiate some youngsters we managed to lock up on unders. Change of coach gives them pretext, and they're not doing their job if they don't ask. But really, if they were doing their job, they would've had their clients hold out instead of letting them commit so long. Note the club doesn't have to let any merkin go who's currently contracted. They let Arthur go because how could they not. But Guymer isn't related to the sacked coach. It isn't 'personal reasons', it's a cynical ploy for more cash. It's good that we said no.
He screwed his client over and now trying to get a second bite of the cherry. You win some, you lose some.
Sounds like we got Guymer for unders. He's probably pissed we didn't give him a PO.
He is still listed on NRL signings tracker as off contract this year, so he must've extended two years.
The real reason is that his undersold himself. The change of coach is just an excuse.
He can play centre and possibly fullback as well. More likely though is that Strange will move to the right and Sanders will play on the left with Fogarty transitioning to leadership off the field.
~$700k
They would absolutely be telling the manager what they think he's worth (or the manager will be ringing around asking) so that the player doesn't commit to his existing club too cheaply.
Why else would they agree to it?
He's a left footer as well
The Jersey Flegg player? Absolute gun ffs
Yes that’s correct until Dylbags can get out of his contract at the end of next year and take over.
Long term? His contract ends next year ffs, a year before Guymer's. He is older than Guymer but only just making his debut. He could be the next Daine Laurie!
That’s right, all the players would “die for Brad”. Oh except on a football field where his tactics were like a stale fart and the players o ly show up every 5 games or so if we are lucky
The option doesn't replace the final year of the contract, it is an OPTIONAL contract extension. So in Talagi's case, he only wanted one year, not two, so he could go on the market. The option was just in case he got injured. It's only a factor if he takes it up. If he doesn't take the option (which is what happened) it's the same as if there was no option at all.
If you're trying to get guys very cheap it needs to be merkins nobody wants. Very promising juniors like Talagi can get half a million after a dozen NRL games. Sometimes you get lucky and can extend a youngster like Guymer, but if they're that good usually their managers will want them on the market. Look how much Guymer's cost himself signing until 2026. We would've offered Talagi something similar, but his manager wasn't as silly as Guymer's. Sanders will probably be getting close to $500k as well, along with the other junior stars they've chased. We had a freak crop come through and a few of them couldn't be held back. Others like Lynn, Brazel and Tuivati we've been able to bring through more slowly. But you don't want to overpay these guys or sign them too long because they might never be first graders.
Out of the many turds he bought, how many did he actually polish? Papali’i yes, lane for 1 year. Cartwright for about 6 games and then there was um… oh and um…
