Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

Go_You_Good_Things said:
Agree with much of what you're saying here, H. And you say it without being a smart arse !
My constant return to the demise of Balmain is for all those who kick start their HBG argument whenever something that is even 1% negative to WT happens. Just to remind them why HBG are in charge.
Are HBG perfect ? No, of course not.
They have done things that make me cringe, but at the end of the day:
1. They are our current owners.
2. They were the only ones who dipped their hands deep into their pockets to pay out Balmain's defaults on debts, and I would imagine that since then they have had to shoulder the financial burden without any $$ input from Balmain's half of the JV.
While all this happened years ago, it is still important to the issues today.
I really don't want to go down the Magpies vs Balmain road . . . but, how do I put it . . . it seems the old Magpies people are complaining much less about HBG than the old Balmain people.
And in reality anyone that is too young to have magpie or tiger loyalty, that is complaining about HBG's antics . . . needs to understand how HBG came to being in charge.
HBG's debenture system is of their own doing. It seems out of touch with modern ways . . . but it's the method used by the club that saved WT from going down the shitter when Balmain defaulted.
Same goes for their boardroom shenanigans.
Of course, they can't get a free ride forever, and burn us to the ground just because they saved us financially all those years ago.
I must have a romantic set of values that believes we owe them a degree of respect for what they did to save our club years ago, and are still doing.
The answer lies somewhere in between.
But every time this business rears it's ugly head, all I can think about is the Monty Python skit about the Judean People's Front.
"Ok . . . apart from roads, sanitation, law and order, education, irrigation, medicine, wine, and of course the aqueduct . . . what have the bloody Romans ever done for us ?
Or is it the People's Front of Judea ?
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What you’ve said is not entirely correct.
Wests Ashfield didn’t pay Balmains debts, they took up the option to buy Balmains share of the JV - for the price of the debt.
Which they’re entitled to, and have had majority control since.

If Ashfield didn’t buy Balmains share, someone else may well have - but then control would be once again shared, which wasn’t popular from either side of the JV.

They didn’t help Balmain out
- they bought them out.
 
Thinking a a bit more about the Luai departure and its ramifications in terms of other contract extensions, I reckon it's all been part of a carefully constructed jigsaw puzzle. Conversations between Jarome and Benji started some time a go, with cards laid on the table and agreements reached. 'I'll support and protect you if you go to the Chiefs but, in return, I want you to promise me that you won't take other Tigers players with you'. Once this was nutted out, the timing of the announcement was decided and, once the projected financial situation was clear, a sequence of contract extensions was triggered, starting with the Mays and then Bula. I think it was all part of a master plan and reflects excellent salary cap management by Benji and the club. Well done Tigers!
 
stevied said:
Thinking a a bit more about the Luai departure and its ramifications in terms of other contract extensions, I reckon it's all been part of a carefully constructed jigsaw puzzle. Conversations between Jarome and Benji started some time a go, with cards laid on the table and agreements reached. 'I'll support and protect you if you go to the Chiefs but, in return, I want you to promise me that you won't take other Tigers players with you'. Once this was nutted out, the timing of the announcement was decided and, once the projected financial situation was clear, a sequence of contract extensions was triggered, starting with the Mays and then Bula. I think it was all part of a master plan and reflects excellent salary cap management by Benji and the club. Well done Tigers!
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Sounds good, just hope it dosen't send us broke.
Luai was on $1.2 not $2.2.
Still got a lot more signings to go.
No idea what the May's and Bula settled on? But I agree it would have been in the pipeline for some time; And the other players we need were a part of that discussion.
They seem to have been very busy behind the scenes, so fingers crossed no one is left behind.
 
stevied said:
Thinking a a bit more about the Luai departure and its ramifications in terms of other contract extensions, I reckon it's all been part of a carefully constructed jigsaw puzzle. Conversations between Jarome and Benji started some time a go, with cards laid on the table and agreements reached. 'I'll support and protect you if you go to the Chiefs but, in return, I want you to promise me that you won't take other Tigers players with you'. Once this was nutted out, the timing of the announcement was decided and, once the projected financial situation was clear, a sequence of contract extensions was triggered, starting with the Mays and then Bula. I think it was all part of a master plan and reflects excellent salary cap management by Benji and the club. Well done Tigers!
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You are way overestimating WTs
Things sometimes just fall into place
 
stevied said:
Agree really. I like Bula but he's only worth 750 max. Just hope we don't lose Brookes as a result.
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Think we're committed..and we need to be.
If Brookes is an outstanding talent..and I havent seen him play ..maybe a centre or wing position..?
Still unhappy about losing Onitini Large to Manly..generational talent whom we shld have fitted in somewhere
Luais $1.2 mill prevented that..but both worthwhile investments
Cant keep em all
 
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