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I thought It was $450k but then someone on here thought it was $650k!

You wouldn’t believe it, Gus has just been visiting Manase in gaol. Just to check on his wellbeing of course.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Latu’s manager has said during the contract negotiations that Latu needs more time in the halves next year or he’s out of here. Hence moving Romey on.

The silly thing is I believe we could have gotten rid of Luai for nothing next season. When he signed with the Chiefs we had to allow him to take up his option for 2027 because the time to execute it per his contract had passed. 8 weeks later we are asking him to leave and will no doubt have to...

He had a good series. Good on him.

This has been true for the last 15 years.

If Dearden is currently on 12% of the cap and after the increase in the salary cap will still be on 12% of the cap, what’s the issue? He is being paid the same proportion of the cap. The dollar number is irrelevant. People will need to get used to and accept these higher salaries.

It’s far from first grade standard if you watch how the top tier of dummy halves pass.

One of the elephants in the room at WT is API’s pass out of dummy half is poor. It’s slow, loopy and often not on target. This deprives the first receiver of valuable split seconds which can make or break a wide block play. Lanyon is worse. You watch Brailey, Joey Lussick, even Robson, they have...

Do you think Benji can pick Latu in first grade? If he does, and Latu plays well, it will make Benji look very silly.

Like Newcastle dropped a ball every second set last week? It’s the same story every week. We dominate the first half but our red zone attack is so woeful we score no points and then lose.

Yes. When we were on a bye.

Agree. If his form continues he will be a must for 14 to 17 next year covering the back row and middle. I actually wonder if we need Blore the way Tony is progressing.

The new rules favour attack, getting momentum and using the ball/speed when the opposition is under pressure/fatigue. The pendulum has swung a bit from defence to attack being more important now. It’s very hard to consistently defend yourself to a victory. You fatigue Doing that week after week...

Thoughts on moving Douhie to centre to cover May’s spot and Latu into halfback?

Api has made some bad, game changing errors the last two weeks due to fatigue. I believe Lanyon would have spelled him today had it not been for May’s injury forcing us to use Maka as one of our 4 interchange players.

Exactly it. The effort was excellent and has been all year. I haven’t been able to say that about a tigers team for over a decade. The fact is, our red zone attack is the worst in the competition. It’s a been a problem for us all year. We have dominated so many first halves this year only to not...

Maya’s walk off looks reminiscent of Dwyer’s all those years ago! I hope not.

May gone for the season.

The fact is, Tupou (or LL) is a fourth choice winger. Tupou also will be a fourth choice centre. We are talking about someone taking up roster spot 24 to 28. Any player we could sign for roster spot 24 to 28 will have something wrong with them given what they get paid.