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Offering Galvin 650k a season is just a waste of everyone's time. His manager would laugh in your face and if anything you'd have slightly increased his chances of leaving by offering such an insultingly low deal. The bidding for Galvin starts at 800-900k and that's for the two seasons he's...

I didn't say we hold all the trumps. Quite the reverse: I said we have one bit of leverage so we really have to try to use it. I know it sounds dramatic but if Galvin doesn't extend by the start of the season, or at least by an informal deadline set by the club that isn't far into it, I think...

Yeah I certainly have some faith that Richardson knows what he's doing. I was really addressing my comments to the people on here who think waiting till mid-season or offering a ludicrously lowball number is the way to go. The only point I'd maybe clarify is that while I agree it doesn't have to...

I've said this before but people still don't seem to have grasped it so I'll repeat it: saying there's "no rush" with Galvin or we can wait till mid-season or whatever misses an absolutely fundamental point. That is that the Tigers have one massive bit of leverage in this situation: the ability...

I think the reason why people don't think we should sign Molo or Lodge - and the reason why the club has shown no interest in either of them - is that we already have enough cap room tied up in middles and it's not really a position of need. I mean, they could blow up the strategy just in order...

Sullivan is on $500k a year. If you think a fourth or fifth choice half is a worthwhile use of that cap room I honestly don't know what to say to you. If we was on minimum salary I suspect we'd have kept him but we clearly had better things to do with the money - specifically, re-signing Sione...

This is a ridiculous comment. Yes, we do need back ups. Every club does. Falls is a 5/8 - a position at which we are absolutely stacked at present. But what happens if Luai is playing origin and Galvin gets injured? You've got to have third, fourth and fifth choices even if all the last ones do...

This is missing a really important point. He'll be on peanuts for 2025 and the Tigers are the only club that can improve that. If he's prepared to play all season for maybe a quarter of what he'd get on an upgraded contract that says one thing and one thing only: he wants to test his value at...

The drama is that the only real advantage the Tigers have in talks with Galvin is that they can increase his salary now. He'll be on peanuts for 2025 and 2026 as it's the same contract he signed before he played first grade, but if the Tigers extend him they'll (presumably) tear up that contract...

Bird at lock also introduces an interesting question about the bench. I think we'd all assume a four prop rotation is May, Klemmer, Pole and Hunt in some order, and that Koroisau is no longer an 80 minute hooker except in emergency so Da Silva likely takes the third bench spot (or Latu Fainu as...

I also think this is what it'll be and TBH at this stage I more or less hope it is, barring someone taking a leap forward in training and trials that we aren't aware of yet. Sam Fainu is already an attacking weapon and could become a genuinely elite attacking edge. On the other hand, his...

But how am I meant to know who is Training the House Down?

I'm only going to respond to comments/questions that are based on things I actually said, sorry.

The accusation is that HBG commissioned the review then didn't like at least some of its conclusions, specifically the ones relating to the idea that the whole joint was being run by a bunch of clowns, and therefore proceeded to selectively implement the review. The pretty clear implication is...

To stretch the analogy to breaking point, the half a mil is to turn up every day and keep the bike maintained. Doesn't matter if it gets used.

We could argue all day about whether 2025 John Bateman is a first grade standard player. But we don't have to: we both know, or at least we should know, that he had no intention of playing for the Tigers again and the head coach had no intention of picking him even if he did. Saying "but we...

100%. People who are happily spending Klemmer's money are off the mark, I'm afraid - as I said yesterday, if we're spending the Klemmer salary on a free agent it's because Galvin has signed elsewhere.

"International back rower". Dear god the semantic lengths people will go to to make it sound like Bateman is anything other than dead weight on a roster are hilarious.

Hold on, hold on. Blore was in our squad and he was bog average. He's playing in a better team now, which makes the fairly limited job he does look better. But we literally know what he could do for the Tigers because we've seen it, and it's not a great deal.

If we've got money to spend after Klemmer leaves it basically means we've lost Galvin.