Why is there a requirement that you give back to lesser clubs in the twilight of your career ? Those clubs would cut you just as quickly as glamour clubs if someone else came along. They are professional sportsmen.
He won't be at the Tigers "If I want to go to a different team, I’d be wanting to go to a good team where I test myself and get the best out of myself " SMH today.
Why would Fifita come to an underperforming club like the Tigers - he's been part of one for years and is probably sick of it ?. He wants to win a premiership and that's not going to happen here not even if he joins. Penrith are in that window now and will probably do it again within the next 3...
Lifestyle and opportunity at Brisbane will more than offset whatever we can offer him at the moment. Bashing your head against a brick wall isn't the greatest incentive although finishing your season in August for the foreseeable future could be a selling point.
You can package them all you like but 1) if they don't want to leave you can't force them and (2) there are plenty of other players in the same positions that Penrith could get so why would they want both of them ?