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These are players i think worth looking at: FORWARDS Davvy Moale - PROP. Think he missed a lot of time injured. but thats prob kept is reputation and price down. Could be worth a contract to give us some depth and punch off bench? Daniel Suluka-Fafita - PROP. Provides some presence but still...

yeah thats was just a guess. Figure not reported anywhere. it might be way off. Personally i think he would be on more than $425k. So maybe somewhere between 425-600 is where he prob lies.

But they all left before the deadline, presumably to take up top 30-contracts at other teams. They can't be counted in two teams top-30! If its not about having top-30 contracted players by the deadline, then the deadline makes no sense.

What i cant figure out, is that my understanding is that all clubs need to have had a Top 30 in place by June 30. But at no point did we ever have a Top 30 confirmed and we never at any point had 30 players confirmed in Top 30 this whole year! Only thing i can think of is that they either are...

RLPA seem to have an issue with this for some reason. I cant understand why they cant make it transparent.

you have to spend 95% of the cap each year. Cant save it up. so prob some front loading happening which might create 'room' in future years caps.

yes teams have to spend 95% of cap. So there would def be some additional payments for Sullivan and Bateman. But also i believe match payments for non-top 30 players also count in the cap, which I havent tried to estimate.

yeah i heard that, other sites reporting $550k per year but i front loaded with reducing over the years for KPP. But yeah, with having no visibility of the structure of contracts, we're never going to get it 100%

Any thoughts/corrections? Never going to be able to get it 100% - because dont have visibility of contracts we are still paying for or how much game payments for non-top30 players are included in cap etc. Blue text are salaries reported. Red are guesses/estimates.

Anyone else seriously worried about our fullback depth. With Staines not signed, if anything happens to Bula we are looking at Toa filling in. I don’t even see who we have to play fullback in cup. Massive risk going into the season unless we have something up our sleeve.

Suspect Galvin will end up in backrow as he grows into himself.

7. Brad Scneider (2024) 1. Tyrell Sloane (2025) / Kaeo Weeks (2024) Also realistic options and potentially available in nearish future. Joey Manu for 2025 to play anywhere would be game changing marquee signing.

Another strong game on weekend. Stood out over Ofa in my opinion. Reckon he will get a shot late this year.

Might need to start practicing 200 catches each day in addition to the 200 passes :p

By my count we only have 28 officially signed in the top 30 unless I’m missing someone? Zero tackle have Will Smith and Josh Feledy as signed but neither have officially been included in too 30 as far as I’m aware.