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Trade Ivan to Penrith for 2019

gordsy

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You;ve got to look at it from a salary cap situation. Cleary signs for a million per season. Penrith will have to shed players to stay under the cap.

The Tigers need to get players as compensation. Cash is not adequate because the club struggles to attract talent as it is. Luai +Tamou/Merrin would together be worth about the same as Nathan's upgrade.
If any of those 3 hit the market we aren't the 1st club that comes to mind. We'd be lucky to be in the top 5. So to get them we'd have to pay overs, which this makes us stupid. Buying one or two guys and expecting them to change the world for you is dumb and has been proven for years on end in sports all over the world. Besides we did that with packer and matulino this year. Didn't work wonders for us.
 

Front-Rower

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Besides we did that with packer and matulino this year. Didn't work wonders for us.

In fairness to these guys, they improved our defence ten-fold.

We need an organiser really badly. Our halfback isn’t up to it. The really good, consistent sides have one or two players who are 2-3 plays ahead of everyone else and basically make ordinary players look like world beaters.
 

Tiger05

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You;ve got to look at it from a salary cap situation. Cleary signs for a million per season. Penrith will have to shed players to stay under the cap.

The Tigers need to get players as compensation. Cash is not adequate because the club struggles to attract talent as it is. Luai +Tamou/Merrin would together be worth about the same as Nathan's upgrade.

The people going on about cash as compensation have no idea. This isn't a game about getting the most profitable team. It's a game to get the team that wins the most games. Cash unless it's in the form of extra TPA's to attract players is worthless.

There are deals done all the time for players. We got Farah and Mbye last year during the season. Mbye was a marquee player for the Dogs. He was probably their best player.

We need to make deals that suit us. It's a business. We should be more than happy to get rid of Cleary if it improves our squad. It's not a bad thing. It's a bargaining chip in our favour.
 

Tiger Ted

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In fairness to these guys, they improved our defence ten-fold.

We need an organiser really badly. Our halfback isn’t up to it. The really good, consistent sides have one or two players who are 2-3 plays ahead of everyone else and basically make ordinary players look like world beaters.
I agree about the halfback.We will get an opportunity to search for a quality game-managing halfback when Isaac the swindler moses finally completes his vengeful plan of removing his ‘small’ 4 from concord by finding brooks another employer from season ‘19.
 

Mario chalmers

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The people going on about cash as compensation have no idea. This isn't a game about getting the most profitable team. It's a game to get the team that wins the most games. Cash unless it's in the form of extra TPA's to attract players is worthless.

There are deals done all the time for players. We got Farah and Mbye last year during the season. Mbye was a marquee player for the Dogs. He was probably their best player.

We need to make deals that suit us. It's a business. We should be more than happy to get rid of Cleary if it improves our squad. It's not a bad thing. It's a bargaining chip in our favour.

Totally agree. If we can gain something out of it then we should part ways. There are so many different ways you can look at the situation:

- If Ivan stays then his reputation is dragged further through the mud. Brooks has said that the players would struggle to find the motivation to play for him. It would potentially be a couple of bad seasons for WT but equally bad for IC
- we could relegate Ivan to assistant coach. Bring in someone above him but this is dangerous territory from a legal perspective. His contract im sure lists "head coach" as job description. Whether he'd accept that as a compromise (in exchange for him signing to join penrith from 2021) is another matter
- Penrith and Gus look really desperate right now. Social media "experts" are saying that Nathan is not worth all the trouble and that he's not that good a player. Gus needs to follow through on his rather desperate strategy because he's gone to all the effort of punting Griffin, disrupting the 2018 season etc


I think if Ivan refuses the extension then he should be prepared to accept being relegated to assistant coach. He's not acting in the best interests of his employer by agreeing to terms with another club while he has 2 years remaining on his WT deal. In a way, Ivan would be happy to be sacked now but WT know that he gets off lightly if that happens and the club surely loses a bargaining chip
 

magpie_man

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My 2 cents:

No amount of compensation - either monetary or in terms of playing talent - could fill the chasm that would left in Ivan Cleary's wake.
Many of his recruits have come to the club primarily to play under him and, furthermore, it's untenable for the players to be coached by him for the next 1-2 years knowing that he's already committed to shifting up the Northern Road immediately afterwards.
The club has had an incredibly tumultuous near-decade and, even if we manage to secure the services of Madge, it's still going to be a case of hitting the reset button. Yet again.
 

Das Hassler

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The people going on about cash as compensation have no idea. This isn't a game about getting the most profitable team. It's a game to get the team that wins the most games. Cash unless it's in the form of extra TPA's to attract players is worthless.

There are deals done all the time for players. We got Farah and Mbye last year during the season. Mbye was a marquee player for the Dogs. He was probably their best player.

We need to make deals that suit us. It's a business. We should be more than happy to get rid of Cleary if it improves our squad. It's not a bad thing. It's a bargaining chip in our favour.

Its very simple....it's not about losing a marquee player....its about being compensated for losing our coach who we will probably need to replace with a better one at least....how do you think we might entice one over? With as much as we can throw at him that's how! And it may not help our cause in landing him if we load the salary cap up with penrith castoffs that perhaps he didnt want and Guss DEFINITELY didnt want ! The incoming coach should be the one signing the players HE wants...no one else...orherwise you just have more wasted seasons waiting for the "wrong fit" signings to filter out. (Quote) " This is about getting a team that wins the most games"..EXACTLY!!!

Just to add....who do you think would select the player or players to come over as compensation for us and to hopefully weaken penrith?....Ivan ??
The problem we've had with the rapid turnover of coaches and previous backended deals has been that no one coach has had the squad HE needed....we've been a drunk getting dressed in the dark for too long....a longterm former premiership winning coach first and foremost. ..take a million off Guss and top the right guy's 4 year coaching contract offer up by 250k a year to make sure we get the guy we need.
 
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Pilot house

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Ivan doesn’t want to be at wt, so ffs comrades, send him on his way.

Maybe make a surprise play for Bennett and his blue chip coaching staff.

Queensland up a bit. I know it would be painful, but sacrifices need to be made.

Moses is an impossible player, top shelf he drips with talent, superb acquisition.

Good call getting rid of dud woods. I will skul draino if he makes the kangaroos. You can buy him back at 10% and put in a bid for Oates.

Actually, a lot of broncos are being moved on. Package deal with Bennett!

“The Balmain magpies maroon experiment”
 
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Aliceinwonderland

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You;ve got to look at it from a salary cap situation. Cleary signs for a million per season. Penrith will have to shed players to stay under the cap.

The Tigers need to get players as compensation. Cash is not adequate because the club struggles to attract talent as it is. Luai +Tamou/Merrin would together be worth about the same as Nathan's upgrade.



Or Penrith will play the long game *which I think is their strategy. Sign Ivan for 2021 onwards, (he's off contract then, so no players nor compensation for W/T. Go with the same coaching structure for next year as the end of this year for Penrith.

Penrith then will sit back and wait for the fall out. W/T will struggle with all of this. He will be released by W/T *with a pay-out from the club. Penrith will then have no players to send over, and no compensation.

In the extreme case of W/T not unravelling they will have a coach who is making decisions about onward planning, and contracts doing this for a club that no-longer he wants to be at.

Remember when IC first arrived he fought hard to get the sole owership of what players, staff he hired and fired. That would be in his contract. W/T will find themselves in a big legal mess if they attempt to change this. Also with making IC an assistant coach.


My thoughts are that W/T will be forced to payout Ivan if he signs with Penrith for 2021.
 

Tiger Woody

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Or Penrith will play the long game *which I think is their strategy. Sign Ivan for 2021 onwards, (he's off contract then, so no players nor compensation for W/T. Go with the same coaching structure for next year as the end of this year for Penrith.

Penrith then will sit back and wait for the fall out. W/T will struggle with all of this. He will be released by W/T *with a pay-out from the club. Penrith will then have no players to send over, and no compensation.

In the extreme case of W/T not unravelling they will have a coach who is making decisions about onward planning, and contracts doing this for a club that no-longer he wants to be at.

Remember when IC first arrived he fought hard to get the sole owership of what players, staff he hired and fired. That would be in his contract. W/T will find themselves in a big legal mess if they attempt to change this. Also with making IC an assistant coach.


My thoughts are that W/T will be forced to payout Ivan if he signs with Penrith for 2021.
His contract. Ends in 2020,so why do we have to “pay him out”??
 

Tiger Woody

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Ivan doesn’t want to be at wt, so ffs comrades, send him on his way.

Maybe make a surprise play for Bennett and his blue chip coaching staff.

Queensland up a bit. I know it would be painful, but sacrifices need to be made.

Moses is an impossible player, top shelf he drips with talent, superb acquisition.

Good call getting rid of dud woods. I will skul draino if he makes the kangaroos. You can buy him back at 10% and put in a bid for Oates.

Actually, a lot of broncos are being moved on. Package deal with Bennett!

“The Balmain magpies maroon experiment”
Welcome Pilot,love your work son:thumbsup_tone2::thumbsup_tone2:
 

Tiger05

First Grade
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You'd think that the best option would be to do a deal. Surely the Panthers want to get rid of some players to ease pressure on their cap.
 

Roosters rule

Juniors
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Piss him off and do a deal. his mind is already elsewhere.
You don't want to wait 12 months and then move him on.
Get a deal now and then get a better coach.
 

Pilot house

Juniors
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But the panthers these days, they speak with the forked tongue.

“ we never approached Ivan”

No you didn’t gus, the chubby red nosed agent sounded him out.

Gus would sign over rcg or maloney and you’d end up with timmy grant, a st Clair comets player or a one of the girls from their league.

That fend from that chick was awesome last week. Saints don’t have wingers, they should sign her up.
 

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