It's all about the club being professional in all areas of the business AHX including communication to members & fans. I follow other professional sports like the AFL & NFL and injury reports are standard to keep members/fans engaged & invested. Sure the high performance dept may not want certain info divulged but at the very least should inform which players are injured, what the injury is & an approx return-to-play timeframe.
What have you heard
Keeps the opposition guessing
I get that, my point being if we pay big money to our lock, what position do we have to take the money from, it's cap management like you said, it's all going to depend on what value Benji and Richo place on specific positions, they might value a good lock at 1 million, they might not and think we only need a reliable lock and use the rest of the money on other positions, we can only really have 3 big earners in one club. If the N.R.L get a bigger t.v deal then with a bigger grant we could have more, it's just a matter of what positions the guys running the joint value the most will determine where the cap is spent.
Has been asked already I think…
Gee Madge like experience doesn’t he. I can’t believe Godwowski is starting over Piakora and Shibasaki over Mariner. Considering Mariner’s trial form. Mind you though with Staggs injured Mariner would be a shoe in you would think.
Issac Moses could be trying to link Galvin up with Mitch at the Eels?
Gosiewski got his first grade debut under Madge at Souths and Shibasaki has been around for a long time he was the next big thing at the Warriors star fullback
All reports are that Galvins family are not happy with how he was treated at the Eels. Can’t see him ever going there.
Agree
The experts aren't wrong eh, the salary cap is a very precise science.
Not when you bring playing rosters into the equation.
Cleary won the 2023 GF with luai off the field. Luai is yet to lead an NRL team for a full season at halfback, let alone a 3 time wooden spoon team. He hasn't won a game with a field goal or a clutch play as a half yet. Sure he's excelled in an elite team and won 4 GFs, but on his own (not just without Cleary but all the other guns) it will be completely different, confidence aside. Off season hype will mean nothing until a losing streak of 3 becomes 4, then 5, then 8, etc. as it always does here, and then he regrets coming here and he's lost his competitive spirit that he's been so used to. The good thing is he has experience in a losing side with penrith in 2019 when they were coming last halfway through the season and he helped the comeback in that year with 7 wins in a row when he played in the halves.
I post this link which is an interview with Shane Richardson about Jerome Luai. Richardson is a man we all respect as WTs' supporters.
It will inflate his ego and put way too much pressure on the poor kid. He's already got Gus blowing up his tyres because Bulldogs will go after him. He's 19. 19! Yes he's extremely talented but what difference will it make to the overall side and Latu if he realises the cap can't be spent on him in the future and he's got to pack his bags. Luai is also on a million, is there an NRL club with two halves on a million? Storm maybe. But they've got depth and talent everywhere. It will totally disrupt the balance of the squad. A million dollar forward would be more highly valued or a million dollar fullback if Bula doesn't work out, maybe even galvin could play fullback down the track... When luai retires (maybe after the 5 year deal or sooner), galvin can earn the big bucks, but he has to bide his time, just like nathan cleary did. It took nathan 5 years in the NRL to stamp his claim on the game. He debuted at 19, older than Galvin was when he debuted. Development is what will make his value go up, but development and of course money will increase over time, so there's no need to rush until we know his motivation and full potential, under many different situations.
He said that to try and get him here. While mostly true, he hasn't proven himself as a tiger yet. All the off season hype and his past achievements will be in the past but in Round 1, the next chapter begins. Unpredictable to say the least
