Poupou Escobar
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It definitely needs to come from our juniors. Going out and buying all the first graders we want isn't realistic. You need to be realistic otherwise you'll never compete and improve.
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It definitely needs to come from our juniors. Going out and buying all the first graders we want isn't realistic. You need to be realistic otherwise you'll never compete and improve.
His still won 3 Premierships, never lost a GF and was the first coach to go B2B in 26 years back in 2018 & 2019.
The head of recruitment has been doing a bang up job apparently………..
It appears that the fantastic 3 are a mutual admiration society.
We lost not only RCG ($700k) and Gutho ($900k) but Sivo ($600k) and a bunch of other players, most on little more than minimum wage and replaced them with nuffies, most on little more than minimum wage. Most came here to get a start in NRL, not for the money, with their pathway blocked at their clubs. We've since upgraded some of them but that wouldn't effect our 2025 salary cap you would expect or even 2026. Lomax would have taken RCGs salary plus Dylan Walker and TDS between them Sivo's salary. In my estimation Gutho's salary is still unspent for 2025 unless some contracts front loaded.
Realism means if we don’t have the best squad it’s because nobody at the club (except all these dumb fans) realises the team isn’t the best. The solution to not having the best squad is to go out and buy the players we don’t have, even if we’re competing against the other 15 clubs that also don’t have the best squad. How the f**k could Ryles and MON think we have the best squad in the NRL ffs?!? They are not being realistic!!!!
In 2022 we obviously had a lot of players on unders and now we don’t. To get a significant number of players on unders you need to develop them yourself, and then hope they don’t chase the money as soon as there’s outside interest.
I think some of your numbers are way off but I like them. Brown was definitely on $1.2m and Sivo $600k and Walker & TDS average $300k between them
Nobody changes clubs for ‘little more than minimum wage’. They all want big upgrades.
A pay increase goes hand in hand with an improved squad status. If a player is expected to play first grade every week, he will expect to be paid accordingly. From the club’s perspective, they need to spend their entire cap (97.5% of it at least) on thirty players, so there’s no reason to try to screw players on their salary.
Definitely 2026, especially for the mid-season signings (Walker and TDS), who might’ve had to sign on the cheap for 2025 when most of our cap was already committed.
Drown left because the Knights offered a significant upgrade. Now you’re suggesting he was on nearly as much at our club?
Nah because I think Jason Ryles is one of the best young coaches in the game.
I thought TDS was like $600k. Last year, he came mid-year so only $300k last year
yup. he would want too much and would probably want the 1 spot.
