Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

GNR4LIFE said:
Maybe Luai is so on the nose, not even his own club can stand him and couldn’t be bothered endorsing him. Wouldn’t be much of a stretch imo.
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Could be something like this.

Maybe Ivan thinks he's a bad influence on his son & wants him gone 😆

Critta, Bizza and Romey are all very close... and Critta is leaving.

Could be more to the story.
Fun to speculate.
 
In the end it's all about the money.
The money is how they all measure their self worth. Luai won't play next to a guy he thinks he's as good as for less money. It would be humiliating for him.
Those of you who think well there's no difference really between 1 million and 1.4 million, you can still live the same lifestyle , that ain't how these guys' minds work.
There are NFL players on 35 million who want 40 million because some other guy got 37 million.

The money is all that matters to them. Their egos won't allow them to not make it about the money.
 
Todd Packer said:
In the end it's all about the money.
The money is how they all measure their self worth. Luai won't play next to a guy he thinks he's as good as for less money. It would be humiliating for him.
Those of you who think well there's no difference really between 1 million and 1.4 million, you can still live the same lifestyle , that ain't how these guys' minds work.
There are NFL players on 35 million who want 40 million because some other guy got 37 million.

The money is all that matters to them. Their egos won't allow them to not make it about the money.
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Neither will their managers
 
KingRobbie said:
Even more, I reckon.

Don't think you get a quality, NRL-level starting prop for anything less than $600k these days.
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Exactly. It's like everyone has forgotten the players Salary cap has increased 33% in 2 years. $600k now is $450k in what people are thinking. It's why it's ridiculous that people are saying Luai is only worth about $800k in today's market. He's definitely worth more than that.
 
2041 said:
Fair enough, though I should note that it's at least interesting that when people disagree with attempts to do objective analysis of players it always comes down to "intangibles" and the like - things that can't be objectively measured and thus can't be argued against. My personal view is that while I have no reason to think Papali'i isn't a great guy and a model professional, (a) it's pretty obvious that he didn't deliver much by way of outcomes on the field, (b) the fact that he plays in a secondary position and isn't an absolute freak physical impact machine like David Fifita means he didn't really have much chance of delivering a great deal, and (c) whatever the benefit of these leadership abilities it has to be mentioned that they weren't sufficient to raise anyone else's game to the extent that we didn't finish dead last again.

As I say, my point here isn't to bag Papali'i. It's just to note that we're one year into a three year deal for a guy who we signed as an 8/10 player but didn't give much opportunity to be anything more than a 5/10 player. That's not his fault, but it's also not money well spent - so far.
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I think you would struggle to find any club to not take on Ice at $600k a year, we got in early for once and got him at that price, if we didn't he would be playing for another club on $700k plus a year.
So you get the good players when you can, which we did for a good price, then target your other weaknesses, which in our case was many.
We bought new halves, we need outside backs, but I just can't see how Ice is a bad buy for us at that price.
 
851 said:
I think you would struggle to find any club to not take on Ice at $600k a year, we got in early for once and got him at that price, if we didn't he would be playing for another club on $700k plus a year.
So you get the good players when you can, which we did for a good price, then target your other weaknesses, which in our case was many.
We bought new halves, we need outside backs, but I just can't see how Ice is a bad buy for us at that price.
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Our halves aren‘t that highly regarded.
 
Camel2281 said:
Liddle is not a solid first grader. And he got dropped during the year for Moses Mbye so that tells you all you need to know. Are you Russell in disguise?
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Wonder what happened to that bloke he was staunch on Liddle, i wondered whether he was a relo or something. He def had the rose coloured glasses on with him.
 
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