Enamoured Eel
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Here’s mine; he will be the next Joey Manu. But he wasn’t in 2024 and he won’t be in 2025. I’m as sour as the next Parra supporter but I’ll concede that he is a gifted footballer.
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That’s fair. Happy to see how it plays out. Either way I’m happy we didn’t outlay significant coin for the next 3 years when he won’t be a first grade 5/8’s asshole.
It's not about the mechanics of the contract, it's about which risks can be eliminated. Given the only risk of a PO is the club losing the option of discarding the player when his contract expires, this risk isn't eliminated by offering him an extension. It is the opposite. At least with a PO there's a chance the unwanted player will not activate it and leave. But re-signing him means he is definitely staying. Obviously if the club wants him to stay that is fine, but that's also the case if he activates the PO; a positive outcome for the club.
It does, but you keep making the assumption that the club (like the fans, because we are all connected now or some shit) would throw its toys out of the cot just because a player wanted to test the market instead of signing early for unders. We weren't ever going to prioritise Talagi over Drown, so it's a moot point. Drown is still twice the player, and if he left we would only have one spine player with more than 40 games.
Dylan Brown hasn't been snapped up yet. This time two years ago we were still waiting for Moses to shit or get off the pot as well.
When he last re-signed he was 22 years old, the best defensive half in the game, and had already played 82 NRL games and four straight finals series, including a grand final. He was the perfect candidate for a nine year contract. And off the field the club and his team mates love him, a lot more than the fans do.
I am obviously assuming the conditions under which he signed the contract would persist. A new coach doesn't change those conditions, in fact we would have recruited the coach to fit with the club's strategic vision. The club is bigger than the coach, and under the new constitution it is stable enough that we can finally implement a vision longer than a single chairman's tenure.
I think Kautoga and Samrani will both have roles to play during the year.
Yet you have stated previously that you couldn’t give a shit if he stays or goes but once again are arguing for the minority just for the sake of it.
Which Samoan? We have a few.
Does the name Peni Terepo not mean anything to you?
No with the PO we lost the option to get rid of him after 2024. A one year contract with PO is completely different to a two year contract, so it’s wrong to assume he would’ve been happy with a two year contract and no PO, on similar money. The player’s manager knew he would potentially be worth a lot more in 2025, which is why they didn’t want a multi year contract. The PO was just there in case he shat the bed or got injured in 2024. From the club’s perspective, all we gave up with the PO was the option to get rid of him after 2024, something we didn’t really value with a talented 19 year old.
It wasn’t just the Samoans.
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