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Sivo is contracted for next year so he's not going to take any deal for 2024 only. Also he's not first grade standard anymore. Would be a complete waste of a roster spot.

Personally I'd rather sign players who, y'know, play football. If we want a standards setter and culture we could give another contract to Matt Ballin. The brutal truth is that the Sharks gave Finucane a three-year deal for which they're going to get 33 games. I don't care if the bloke is...

Yet another player various people on here were desperate to sign because they don't understand the concept of ageing.

Sivo is unplayable nowadays. Parra fans are absolutely desperate to see the back of him: slow, bad defender, lazy. He'd be a shocking signing.

Sorry it was so hard for you, "pal".

I'm not being argumentative, I'm engaging in a discussion. Don't take it personally. To be honest, though - and sorry to be blunt - you're not really making much of a point. I'm asking specifically how you think a team with an increasingly lousy roster is going to be catapaulted back into the...

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2024-wayne-bennett-where-will-he-coach-in-2025-off-contract-how-old-dolphins-queensland-cowboys-rabbitohs-bulldogs-raiders-anthony-seibold/news-story/3838181b251943175f97954b878fe5c8 "The Dolphins want him to stay in a coaching director...

Well, you said they're "a good coach and an attitude adjustment away from being a top 4 team" - that fairly strongly implies that you didn't think they needed any work done on the roster. Now you're talking about recruitment and juniors, in other words a rebuild job. Which is it? Because I...

I thought the reason Bennett was leaving the Dolphins is that he wants to be a coach not a director of football type? How's that going to work given we already have a head coach?

I'm sure Souths could improve with better coaching, but their roster is on the slide and that's not readily fixable. Cook is 32 and turns 33 this season, Walker is 34, Tom Burgess is about to turn 32 and is gone after this season - that's half the spine and their only impact prop. They don't...

I suspect the TDS situation will more or less take care of itself. What he mainly needs at the moment is minutes, which he'll get in reggies. He'll get some game time - split with Simpkin, I guess - during origin unless Maguire is as brain dead as Fittler was. Then when he's ready to play...

If memory serves he left because they only offered him a one year deal. If they'd offered two that would have taken him up to the exact point at which he was nearly winning the premiership with Brisbane. During this period it's possible Lachlan Ilias would have got tired of waiting for his...

Half his age but at least six inches taller ie five foot nine.

I've seen him on the piss at least three times in the Balmain/Rozelle area in the past couple of months... and I don't even live in the state.

You can call anything entitled if that's what you want to see. The bottom line is he's backed himself to do better elsewhere. I'm not calling him a hero for that - some might see it as greedy - but it's not what I think entitlement looks like. Besides, the Dragons didn't have to agree to release...

Yeah time will tell. I'll just say one more thing at this stage, though: I'd be extraordinarily suprised if a club that's desperate for a half prioritises squeezing another 100k out of the Tigers. I keep saying this: 500k is nothing for a first grade half. All it takes is one club to think...

It's the exact opposite of entitled: he's backing himself to do better elsewhere, abandoning the security of a guaranteed deal to get what he can based on his skills. Entitled would be staying there on 800k and demanding to play in his preferred position or cruising on the wing.

No they don't: he's been released. He would have to ask for that, though - the club can't just do it unilaterally without, as you say, paying him out. Lomax is basically backing himself to get a better deal (or at least one he prefers) elsewhere. It's certainly a gamble.

Dragons aren't going to contribute anything: they've released him from 2025, which means he's a free agent after this year and the Dragons have no obligations to him. In theory they might kick something in for 2024 but I can't imagine why they would - they have no incentive to do so.

I agree that four years was an overreach. I'll tell you what else is an overreach, though: suggesting we're "f-ed" if Sullivan doesn't play well. As I've said, 500k for a half is peanuts nowadays and it takes a long time for the whole comp to give up on promising young halves. Tyson Gamble is...