Rumours and Stuff

[hineyrulz]

Sanders might have been inclined to re sign for a couple more years if he could see an end to the current halves contracts.

Don't forget I said 'if'

It's not like sanders has landed in a better situation, fog and strange are going to be hard to get past. Infact sanders would have been playing FG now if he was at the Eels.

I'm sure the upper brass at the Eels are fuming they have lost three halves options they have developed in the last year.

Maybe you'd like to explain why the club isn't offering POs anymore??

Offering PO’s and losing talented juniors are what the smart clubs do.

 

[Pazza]

Offering PO’s and losing talented juniors are what the smart clubs do.

Development club

 

[Avenger]

Some realistic options:

 

[hineyrulz]

14mil bucks and the chance to be Ponga’s cubicle buddy was too good to refuse for Dylbags.

 

[Soto]

Don't underestimate BAs involvement in this. Coaches would of told management what players are must keeps. You're kidding yourselves if you think not.
BA would of said we must do absolute best to keep these guys and build around them long term/next 4yrs.

The sooky brigade aligned to him all need to go and go now...any of the players left who "would die for him" must be removed....the culture has been toxic for ages and needs to be rebuilt.
Full demolition job

 

[Soren Lorenson]

14mil bucks and the chance to be Ponga’s cubicle buddy was too good to refuse for Dylbags.

The Cubicle Brothers has a nice ring to it.

 

[King-Gutho94]

It's interesting that BA was desperate to sign leaders from the get go yet here we are, 11 years later still crying out for leaders.

BA wouldn't know what a leader look like if it bit him on the arse.

The same bloke who thought Corey Norman & Dylan Brown had quality leadership he gave them both the captaincy on game days when the skippers were missing.

Both of those Idiots got themselves suspended for 7-8 weeks for stupid off-field incidents at different stages while we paid a massive price as a club.

 

[Soto]

14mil bucks and the chance to be Ponga’s cubicle buddy was too good to refuse for Dylbags.

Get a double cubicle with the money they're on

 

[Soto]

Some realistic options:

Kaeo Weekes...gun. Super quick too.
Jamal maybe but he's really a 7.
Te Maire Martin NO..injury prone to the max
Wouldn't be against Douehi signing but he's also had 3 knee recos

 

[King-Gutho94]

The sooky brigade aligned to him all need to go and go now...any of the players left who "would die for him" must be removed....the culture has been toxic for ages and needs to be rebuilt.
Full demolition job

I noticed there was a dopey poster on the TCT that was whinging on Sunday that this is Ryles Roster for the debacle trying to defend BA.

Ryles is stuck in the middle atm stuck with the Arthur left overs and half trying to mould what he wants.

Its no where near the roster that Ryles might want right now.

He may have cut too deep into the forwards losing RCG. But RCG was the most expendable because he was more in demand. Short term pain for long term gain hopefully.

 

[hineyrulz]

The Cubicle Brothers has a nice ring to it.

We now know what the second part of Dylan’s nickname means.

 

[Soren Lorenson]

In other news, referee accountability has been deemed surplus to needs

MSN

 

[King-Gutho94]

In other news, referee accountability has been deemed surplus to needs

MSN

Were they ever accountable.

Annseley spoke every Monday and gave a million excuses on how they got the decision right.

 

[Soto]

Were they ever accountable.

Annseley spoke every Monday and gave a million excuses on how they got the decision right.

Well he was in politics for a while there

 

[EppingEel]

Will be interesting to see if Apa gets moved to 6 in today's team list. He played the first Flegg game at fullback, with Matt Hunter at 6 and Josh Lynn at 7.

 

[oldmancraigy]

I can see everyone is playing hypothetical this morning and if you intend to do that, you must also include the premise that if we didn't offer the POs to Moses and Brown, then they would have signed elsewhere.

That's an assumption, not a premise.
You can include that as a possibility, but it may not be so.

The flipside to that is, assuming that it is true, and we didn't offer Brown the extension, he would have finished with the club in 2023 per his previous extension ( https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/12/03/dylan-brown-agrees-to-new-deal-with-eels/ )
Would that have been so bad, not having him here last year??


Ifs/ buts/ maybes - reality is the timing sux, and we shot ourselves in the foot with that.

 

[jk13]

haha i'd piss off for 1.3 too. losing greenlaw is far far worse. needs perspective

 

[King-Gutho94]

That's an assumption, not a premise.
You can include that as a possibility, but it may not be so.

The flipside to that is, assuming that it is true, and we didn't offer Brown the extension, he would have finished with the club in 2023 per his previous extension ( https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/12/03/dylan-brown-agrees-to-new-deal-with-eels/ )
Would that have been so bad, not having him here last year??


Ifs/ buts/ maybes - reality is the timing sux, and we shot ourselves in the foot with that.

If Dylan said at end of 2022 he was finishing up with the club in 2023.

He would have been sacked in disgrace on the spot back in July of that year.

 

[Glenneel]

You need to sign quality players to attract other quality players. It's as simple as that UNLESS you throw stupid money just like Knoughts have done.
Quality attracts quality hence why I state we need to sign 4-5 quality players next yr whilst continuing to blood the young blokes through.
If you don't sign quality then ur at a big risk of missing out players because some and most players don't want to go to a team where the roster is gash and you will constantly be losing games.
Losing becomes a habit.
Winning needs to become the habit plus we need to sign leaders. Also players with footy smarts.
Easier said than done but we need to be very astute with the next signings as the cleanout and rebuild starts now

We also need players who might not be the best players in their position but have a tough mindset, particularly forwards. Those driven to succeed and have a bit of grub in them. A Ray Price clone or JWH or NAS type of player. For too long we've had prima donna players like Matto, all show and very little go, noted head droppers when things go bad. Clean the team out of those. Players who snarl at you when you make a mistake and get rid of those players giving high 5s when you make a mistake. Wtf is that these days?

 

[Glenneel]

Dylan Brown takes up $14 million, 10-year Knights deal as Eels turn to a replacement​

The Eels were told on Monday afternoon that their five-eighth would be departing the club at the end of the season, opting against triggering a lucrative option in his deal at Parramatta.

Instead, Brown will join the Knights on a contract worth around $14 million over 10 years. Brown, 24, will be 35 when he comes off contract.

His deal at the Eels is currently worth around $1.1 million a season, but the huge financial investment from the Knights proved too difficult to resist.
Under NRL rules, the Eels have 10 days to convince Brown to back out of the Newcastle deal now the offer has been submitted to the NRL.

The New Zealand international’s management had sought a bump up in Brown’s deal in return for removing the player options in his contract, but the Eels weren’t prepared to pay more than his current seven-figure salary.

Parramatta will now be armed with more than $1 million to hit the player market for an elite half themselves.
The two best and most logical five-eighth replacements for Brown are Lachlan Galvin and Tyran Wishart, whose deals with the Wests Tigers and Melbourne Storm respectively expire at the end of 2026.

But both clubs were adamant they would not be releasing their players early.
Galvin spent time at the Eels, and is managed by the same agent who looks after halfback and captain Mitchell Moses.

It has not been forgotten that Galvin was also cut loose by Parramatta, who deemed him too small just a few years ago. The 19-year-old has held fire on talks around a long-term extension with the Tigers this year but is happy with the direction of the club alongside new halves partner Jarome Luai.
Wishart grew up in Gerringong, the same south coast town as Eels legend Mick Cronin, and is stranded behind Cameron Munster at the Storm.

“We’d love to keep Tyran long-term,” Storm chairman Matt Tripp said on Monday night. “We understand we could have a fight on our hands to do so, but we’ll do all we can to keep him as a Storm player — he’s an incredibly valuable player to us, and not one we want to lose.”
Wishart and Galvin are seen as future NSW Origin players, and will command good money when they negotiate their next deals.


Concerns have been raised about the impact of the deal on the Knights’ salary cap given Ponga and Brown will take up around $2.7-2.8 million a year – roughly 23 per cent of a club’s allocated spending on its roster.

Newcastle are in the process of turning over several large contracts, however, with hooker Jayden Brailey (earning above $600,000 this season) deep in negotiations with Canberra for 2026.

Prop Leo Thompson is joining Canterbury after knocking back a Knights extension worth $800,000 and halfback Jackson Hastings won’t be re-signed beyond this year.

Dylan Brown takes up $14 million, 10-year Knights deal as Eels turn to a replacement

The Parramatta playmaker has informed teammates he will exit the club take up a 10-year deal to join Newcastle from next year.

www.smh.com.au

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Always laugh when posts like this exaggerate players salaries to emphasis a point. Now getting paid $1.1m according to them!