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Agree that surplus halves is definitely not an issue in the current halves (or lack of) market. Offers great depth (especially with a few young halves who will have ups and downs in form and miss games to injury). Offers terrific leverage for trades as there will always be clubs looking for...

I guess you could make an offer to 3 brothers that doesn’t include top 40 spots for all. 1 could be signed to a cup seal. Still allows them to “play together” (in the same club) if they were happy with that contract arrangement.

That scenario would be a fantastic deal for the Tigers in terms of salary cap hit. Would be surprised the Panthers couldn’t offer something similar though with TPDs if they can afford $850k on their cap and keep him though. Not sure why people would complain about the Luai deal. Pretty accepted...

Does Finicune’s contract finish in 2024? That money would help the Sharks cover most of AFB’s contract from 2025 and give them a massive upgrade.

I’d say this would be an awesome problem to have. Can’t see any downside in having too many gun halves. You would have no problem trading a gun half as they are always in super high demand. Pick the ones you want to keep / who want to stay, and trade the other(s) for good recruits in other...

Not saying I necessarily want Olam (well not for 3 years, 1-2 would be ok), just that the Tigers seem to have a willingness to consider a swap and that a deal may be done. Both sides just holding firm at the moment. I like that we aren’t being a pushover. Hopefully that is the new normal for us.

Still might be done if Melbourne really want Olam off their books for the last few years of his contract. If so they may well revisit step 1.

Just thinking about what side the halves potentially play on as well and how the different combinations could fit. Sullivan I think plays right. Luai and Fainu play left. Sezer is left footed and I think prefers the left but has played right. Not sure if this factors into Benji’s thinking or if...

Can’t see a problem with locking in too many quality halves on contracts. Especially when we have been crying out for years for just 1. If it ever gets to the stage where you have too many contracted quality 6s and 7s, they are an easy position to trade. Most teams are always after upgrades in...

My mistake, sorry

How do we use Blore as a player swap? He isn’t signed up next year and we have our full 30 positions filled don’t we? Melbourne could just sign him direct. We’d need to swap someone else for Olam.

If Benji is shaping up as a good man manager (a fantastic trait for a head coach) then I think a big part of his success or not will be on who his assistants are and what they can bring to the style, structures and skills.

I’m taking the glass half full approach and thinking on the back of some of the recent signings we must be pretty certain we are offloading sone others in the top 30 to make room for targeting weak areas in the squad.

Would take that.

Couldn’t the wallabies say the same thing about us and raid our ranks 🤔