benny that might be the case if they were weighing it up...but they are not...they are actively gunning for Dugan and have more space than Broncos in the cap for this year at very least and I dare say would pay overs. We don't have a couch - ceo or recruitment manager that can sway top class players. Bennett was an apparition - he took over all recruitment. Either side of his tenure we have bought budget or relied on juniors. That don't win premierships.
I disagree with them paying 'overs' despite what the media had said. Simply put, we dont pay overs! Even Gasnier's 'massively back-ended contract' when he came back would have ended up at no more than $350,000 for his last season. With Bennett, we never attracted huge-named first graders - Boyd was on the outer at Broncos, Smith/Scott were hugely underrated at their current clubs, and so on. It may not be a perfect system, but its the way the club operates, and we are not the only ones.
What I'm saying is that given the factors (his son, his desire to play in a big city with only 1 team) means that Dugan WANTS to be in Brisbane, so would require a bigger paycheque to be convinced to come here...and I dont think our management saw the investment as worth it (and TBH, as much as he would have been nice to have, I can see where they are coming from). So they capped their offer, it wasnt enough for Dugan, he goes to Broncos. It's hardly incompetent management, it's just a realisation that there are more important things than money for Josh and there are other fish in the sea for us.
