OFFICIAL Sione Fainu #284

finnzo said:
I imagine he will be resigned maby just freeing up a top 30 spot for him
the club probably knows he really wants to stay so instead of using a top 30 spot on him they may sign him to a train and trial or nsw contract until a top 30 spot is free for him and use our current available top 30 spots to bring in players from outside while they are available
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I like this reasoning
 
just old magpie said:
Anybody got any idea why hes not resigned with 2 brothers hare for 3 more years doesnt make sense unless he wants too much money.If he stays i think he can replace Stef quite easily
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I’ve been asking the same question for weeks now….surely Benji wants to keep him, and it’s only a matter of when not if…I hope Sione is not concerned, as it’s clear he wants to stay…Sione, like Samuela will be a gun forward, and he is only young.
 
innsaneink said:
Why does every topic on a certain player have to be in that players thread... Sometimes the dialogue gets stale and I skip those threads but maybe something interesting has occured
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that was what the previous moderator decided … the one that moved on because they were getting teased
 
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innsaneink said:
I like it.

Why does every topic on a certain player have to be in that players thread... Sometimes the dialogue gets stale and I skip those threads but maybe something interesting has occured

A bit messy is good
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KAOS, it doesn’t surprise me you’d like a bit of organised kaos Ink.
Yeah, I’m just taking the puss before the mods get in. I couldn’t give a rats really. 😎
And I hope @just old magpie gets that too. 👍🏻
 
It will be hard to negotiate with Sione because his brothers will be better paid.

I wonder if the Tigers are having to get him to test his value in the market to manage expectations.
 
Or thinking he won’t wanna ditch brothers and will take a lower scale offer, or maybe just saving the announcement
 
Many will be surprised but IMO Sione has the highest ceiling of all our middles, Pole included. His footwork at the line is Fonua Blake like, he holds his feet in contact and gets offloads away. His attack is as promising as anyone. Defensively I was concerned early on. The first part of the season you couldn't have him and Pole on at the same time, but Sione's defence improved significantly as the season went on. It really impressed me.

We have to sign this guy, he could be anything. If we can get the same improvement on Pole's defence, we have the makings of a dynamic front row pairing.
 
king_sirro said:
Many will be surprised but IMO Sione has the highest ceiling of all our middles, Pole included. His footwork at the line is Fonua Blake like, he holds his feet in contact and gets offloads away. His attack is as promising as anyone. Defensively I was concerned early on. The first part of the season you couldn't have him and Pole on at the same time, but Sione's defence improved significantly as the season went on. It really impressed me.

We have to sign this guy, he could be anything. If we can get the same improvement on Pole's defence, we have the makings of a dynamic front row pairing.
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Agree but we have had all season to sign him?
 
My suspicion is we will keep trying to free up spots over the next 3/4 months into January and that Sione will take one.

Barring that though, I don't think it's a huge cause for concern, we could always sign him to a T&T for 25 and top 30 for '26 and/or' 27. Any shortfall in salary could be made up over the rest of the contract (not that it would be much, I think his next contract would and should be quite modest).

That would be worst case, but, given that he's an NRL rookie, fringe first grader and has a fair incentive to stay, that could be an option we look at, given the lack of space in the squad for next year right now.
 
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