Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[GNR4LIFE]

Well, he’s gone. An endorsement from Gus is as good as having the full support of the board.

 

[BAGNF05]

WTs management dont have to tie shoelaces....thats why they wear slip ons...takes out the complications of how to tie laces !!!!hahaha...

If WT management were a shoe they’d be a croc, but the Wish version.

 

[Buttface]

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He’s a liar.

 

[Demps]

He’s a liar.

100%

 

[innsaneink]

I usually skip 20-40 pages at a time... Great thread and very popar as numbers don't lie

 

[Telltails]

The thread is aptly named - rumours and suggestions - we excel at and that's about a sx far as it goes.

 

[diedpretty]

Have been researching this and haven’t found a thing. Did you find out anything more?

I only put it out there to see if anyone had heard this may happen. I'm thinking it was just pie in the sky thinking by Roy.

 

[Fingers83]

The biggest indictment on us is that deep down we can't wait for rugby league to be played again, even if it means watching our team lose 20 of 24 games.

We are all masochists, and that's why we come here. We need daily doses of hope, and it builds as the season gets closer, only for us to realise after 1 game, we are gone again for another year.

 

[mikey]

There's not a chance in hell that we would have given him anywhere near that much. As a last minute, short term coach that hadn't coached in a decade he would have been the lowest, or almost the lowest paid coach in the league. We wouldn't have doubled his salary just because we were paying him out. Same with mcdonnell, he would have been on relative peanuts, so paying him out wouldn't have cost much either.

Probably a cold shitty day in Melbourne where Masters lives. Needed to dump on something

 

[twentyforty]

What’s the latest on Okalau’atu? Are we considering a player swap with Twal? Is that why Twal was extended?

 

[twentyforty]

There's not a chance in hell that we would have given him anywhere near that much. As a last minute, short term coach that hadn't coached in a decade he would have been the lowest, or almost the lowest paid coach in the league. We wouldn't have doubled his salary just because we were paying him out. Same with mcdonnell, he would have been on relative peanuts, so paying him out wouldn't have cost much either.

Sheens has gone very quiet, which indicates he wants to hang onto that $1m 😂

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Probably a cold shitty day in Melbourne where Masters lives. Needed to dump on something

Assuming you are in Sydney. Have you looked out the window today?

 

[BlackWhiteGold]

What’s the latest on Okalau’atu? Are we considering a player swap with Twal? Is that why Twal was extended?

Yeah maybe Manly offering him a ridiculous 8 years or so is them knowing he wants to leave so putting media pressure on him to stay because other clubs wouldn't offer that duration. Can only hope!

 

[Leck]

The Manly Sea Eagles have offered rising star Haumole Olakau’atu the equal-longest deal in the club’s history, worth almost $7 million in a bid to keep the back-rower away from rival clubs.

It is understood the Sea Eagles have upped their deal to re-sign Olakau’atu by tabling a bumper eight year offer worth about $850,000 a season.

The contract length matches the club’s longest ever deal which was given to skipper Daly Cherry-Evans. Cherry-Evans just completed the final year of that mega contract before re-signing with the club for another two years.

Olakau’atu is still not off-contract until the end of 2025, but the Sea Eagles know that other clubs are preparing to entice the Tongan international on deals worth more than $900,000 a season.

The new contract will take Olakau’atu through until the end of the 2031 season where he will be 33. Should he sign he will become the only Sea Eagles player contracted beyond 2027 when the current deals of Josh Schuster, Luke Brooks and Tolutau Koula expire. (DT)

We made the right decision

 

[twentyforty]

We made the right decision

I realise we’re clocking up some serious numbers of right decisions, but which one was that again?

 

[tony soprano]

The Manly Sea Eagles have offered rising star Haumole Olakau’atu the equal-longest deal in the club’s history, worth almost $7 million in a bid to keep the back-rower away from rival clubs.

It is understood the Sea Eagles have upped their deal to re-sign Olakau’atu by tabling a bumper eight year offer worth about $850,000 a season.

The contract length matches the club’s longest ever deal which was given to skipper Daly Cherry-Evans. Cherry-Evans just completed the final year of that mega contract before re-signing with the club for another two years.

Olakau’atu is still not off-contract until the end of 2025, but the Sea Eagles know that other clubs are preparing to entice the Tongan international on deals worth more than $900,000 a season.

The new contract will take Olakau’atu through until the end of the 2031 season where he will be 33. Should he sign he will become the only Sea Eagles player contracted beyond 2027 when the current deals of Josh Schuster, Luke Brooks and Tolutau Koula expire. (DT)

What a silly contract

 

[twentyforty]

What a silly contract

The only closing argument is the dollar figure. Reminds me of an old lotto ad…would seven million dollars make a difference? Think about it? 😁

 

[twentyforty]

The thread is aptly named - rumours and suggestions - we excel at and that's about a sx far as it goes.

Anyone who has posted reasonably accurate information (smoking gun, nugg Nikoms, The Pom) has been abused when they get it wrong.

 

[Juice]

What a silly contract

So you wouldn’t be happy if he was signed here for the same contract? I would think most people would be lol

 

[gregjm87]

My reputation will be in tatters if that’s the case 🤡

I stick by what I’ve heard

Who knows? Luai probably does I guess

Feels like the Penrith notional increase leak is pushing this to a quick conclusion so hopefully we know soon

Hey Curly, when you first got your Luai to Tigers mail was it for 24 or 25?

I heard something similar last night about tabling him a massive 2 year contract (his management wanted a 3rd) but it is conditional on him starting in 2024. Was additionally told highly unlikely to get approval from Penrith and would need a whole lot of negotiations, moreso between the clubs than between Tigers and Luai to get off the ground.