Lawerence was one of our best yesterday should offer a new contract but no where near the amount we are paying him now!
Mose Moase needs to be our 1 target exactly like Taupau very strong runs and makes some good hits another and apparently keen on a return to NRL
Jamal Idris is a risk but if we can get him for a decent price i would take him any day 24 years old still got another 7-8 years in him with heaps of experience
Docker and Grevsmuhl are a big yes
PUNT
As much as i love Farah i think its time for him to go 900k on a player who worries more about Origin than his own club Cherrington is a much more cheap version of Farah, Richards too old, too slow Nofo is a much better winger, Lovett, Galloway, Halatua, Santi, Moltzen, buchanan and Decrease Lawerence money should give us money for the players above and possibly even Bellyamy
OH AND DID I FORGET PUNT TAYLOR!
Farah can't win with some on here, if he hadn't played( which would have better for him,)
)and saved himself for the Origin game, he would have been blasted by half the supporters,
Instead he played with a separated collar bone and risked missing the origin game , and we still have people here saying that he puts Origin before the club. It was bad luck that the hand problem happened, but he was prepared to take the risk for the club just as he did for NSW.
As for his and Lawrences' ,contracts, the club can't make them take less money,( same applied with Sheens) the only thing they can do is get another club to take them , and pay what the other clubs won't.
We can't expect them to say " that's ok we'll just write off one or two hundred thousand dollars" so we look like SAnta."
Most here were overjoyed when both signed here, when other clubs were falling over themselves to sign them, and they've given good service to the Tigers, injuries happen and we all get older , and it may be a lesson to the club about 5 yr contracts.
But remember that we will probably struggle to get any top players if we are going to offer shorter terms than the other clubs
One other thing to remember about Farah, usually he's at the top , or near , as our top defender in most games. Without him, who do you want to step up and take on the extra defence that will be needed. We don't have any of our young blokes who will take on that extra load( as we saw yesterday)
Cherrington is still a long way off taking that job on, as his defence has been ok so far but still has a long way to go, but in the future could be the long term answer, unless he decides he wants to go where the grass ( and Coaching) looks greener
Which may become a big problem for before much longer, in a lot of ways.
Agree with everything you have written GCT.
Should do everything to keep young Mania though.