It’d be an easy way to circumvent the cap. We could effectively offer an experienced, elite player minimum wage in 2019-20 with an agreement for $500k a year from 2021-23 to be an ambassador or whatever else.
Thus we have Mr Elite on the books for nothing whilst we chase a premiership, when his...
I believe the timeline is as follows:
1\. Club negotiates to have Farah released at the back end of 2016\. An ambassadorial role is openly discussed.
2\. Farah is released and joins Souths, who are reportedly only paying $250k of his ~$950k contract, with the Tigers responsible for the rest.
3\...
The punishment seems excessive for the reported ‘crime’ - there has to be more to this than the reported circumvention attempt, especially given that discussion was all in the public space at the time.
I think the best team won in 2010\. We were a close second, but the Dragons deserved to win the comp that year.
We win that roosters game 99 times out of 100, and had a few other things go against us (Payten going down), but still came up only a few cm short.
I thought we were the best team...
He looked nervy and anxious first half, grew into the game a bit as it went on and finished well. Thought he got lucky for the Lawrence try, but did well for Nofo's try - had a similar opp in the first half and didn't engage his man at all.
He's still too inconsistent IMO, but is our best option...
No doubting those two plays were costly*, though he's been one of our best otherwise throughout the first part of the season.
Grant is very poor defensively - no linespeed, no lateral movement. Good with ball in hand today.
* Matulino should never have got the ball in that situation, gotta give...
Some poor reads today, but we were our own worst enemy in terms of gifting them opportunities.
Additionally, we're missing our three best ruck defenders in Twal, Packer and ET - Parra took advantage of the space behind the ruck today.
We’ve played the 2017 top four over five weeks, and been a chance to win all of them.
We beat the Storm twice, neither of them in Sydney.
Today we won after a 5 day turnaround (Melbourne had an 8 day turnaround), and did so whilst being off our best, as Benji and Lawrence said post match.
Our...
His defensive workrate around the ruck is sorely missed - they got a bit of momentum around there in the second half.
I think our guys were just a little flat in the second half. They wore their disappointment all over their faces at the end there, no chance of complacency going into next week.