Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

batboy said:
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I love the insinuation that Players on a million dollars pay anything close to 50% tax...
on any money...
Their taxable income would be lucky to be 200k a year over their career....
If not, They probably need a new FA....
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You can say that about anybody earnings big bucks. At the end of the day its a salary thats taxable. What the person does to reduce that tax is up to them and their advisers.
 
Todd Packer said:
That's pretty much what he said today.
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Didn’t even see it - good to hear Richo admit that openly then.

Dogs coming in late for Luai would be a very Gus thing to do - I was told they were out and had full focus on AFB. Didn’t Ciraldo come out a couple of days ago and even state he wouldn’t take anyone from Penrith when asked about Luai.

Geez they play this recruitment game dirty - if they get there man though can you blame them?
 
Conbat07 said:
Nothing like a 5 year deal and shares in a pub!! Bye romey
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Deadset how do they keep buying top line players on OVERS..
Surely the NRL needs to look at this and the way they just offload players ever year.
Why would a player want to go there when every year they offload and buy new ones.

Of course they market the club as a development club and main focus on there juniors which is laughable considering all they do is buy external
 
jrtiger said:
nothing changes in regards to Luai.

Pascoe had some involvement but it’s nothing Richo can’t sort out with a phone call with Luai and his manager to smooth it over. the bloke wants a paycheck and the chance to play halfback. yesterday’s events do not affect that in the slightest.

in regards to AFB, there’s some interesting comments made by Richo in his interview with James Graham about how there’s no need to sign middle forwards on upwards of $800k when you can sign someone who will do a similar job for less and have some cash left over for depth. don’t be surprised if our offer is rescinded in the next week or two.
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I think for Luai we need to break the bank whatever it takes.
For AFB he is good but he is not Payne Haas, I wouldn't go past 850k for him, so I hope we don't match Dragons offer and pay overs
 
What I don’t believe hasn’t been mentioned is Lee said on SEN this morning that Pascoe had recently secured $41m of government funding for a new WT Centre of Excellence next to Campbelltown Stadium. A nice parting gift from Pascoe.

Although, why the government continues to give our tax payer money away to elite sporting organisations is beyond me.
 
Jedi_Tiger said:
I think for Luai we need to break the bank whatever it takes.
For AFB he is good but he is not Payne Haas, I wouldn't go past 850k for him, so I hope we don't match Dragons offer and pay overs
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I don't think we should break the bank for Luai at all. $1.2m for four years + an option for the fifth is as high as I'd go, and even then I'd prefer we didn't have the option in there. unsurprisingly the Dogs have come to the table late and will rattle the cage.

as for AFB I agree. Klemmer and potentially a Terrell May or Jesse Colqhoun will do us just fine. I would also anticipate Fa'agutu starts pressing for first grade selection next year and beyond. upwards of $1m for a front rower is just far too much, even with the salary cap going up.
 
I will say that what's different this time around about us chasing Luai is that if we don't end up getting him we have 3 long term halves signed (albeit unexperienced.) Last year we were heavily relying on Moses to come because they only half we had signed up for next season was Doueihi so it's not the end of the world if he doesn't end up coming.
 
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Luai and Afb.
Instantly a better side. Remember when alot of fans said Latrell would be a bad signing because of his attitude. Souths even with a useless 7 are always a fav for the comp every year since LM signed there.
We need winners. Get a cheque and say name your price and years. Cap will only increase under Vlandys. Me as a fan has enough of just trying to avoid the spoon. Pathways are great for the future but we need success NOW. Get these two and we will get it now and later
 
Todd Packer said:
Andrew Voss just made the point that any player who was considering signing with us will probably look elsewhere due to the upheaval and instability. There's just too much uncertainty for any manger to point his players our way.
It's hard to argue he's wrong.
I feel sorry for Benji. The events of yesterday probably mean the squad he has now is the squad he'll have to make work.
I like having Shane Richardson running the show, but it's at the expense of the '24 and 25 seasons.
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You could easily argue the exact opposite
 
teddy23 said:
Didn’t even see it - good to hear Richo admit that openly then.

Dogs coming in late for Luai would be a very Gus thing to do - I was told they were out and had full focus on AFB. Didn’t Ciraldo come out a couple of days ago and even state he wouldn’t take anyone from Penrith when asked about Luai.

Geez they play this recruitment game dirty - if they get there man though can you blame them?
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The second Ciraldo said nope you knew something was going on.
 
Mighty_Tiger said:
The second Ciraldo said nope you knew something was going on.
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I could imagine Gus would keep Ciraldo in the total dark on this: "oh by the way we blew our cap on Luai... You, make it work".

Ofcourse Ciraldo would lie, I have heard from so many sources that Gus is worse off air then he is on. On air he is a bad enough nightmare...
 
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