Hopoate signing with Eels

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Anybody else find this story, just two days after the grand final, pretty inappropriate? I hate Manly as much as anyone on here but if we had been the team that won the grand final and it was one of our players in the same situation, I'd be seriously pi$$ed off hearing this news.
 
better now than 2 days before the GF.

Big call on Parra, holding out for 2 years. Alot can happen in that time.
 
I wonder how much the Sea Eagles offered him. Obviously it wasn't close to what the Eels did, because if it was surely he would have stayed with them.
 
I'd say this deal was done a long long time ago and Parra had to wait until he was a free agent to release the news…

Its just business from a Parra perspective as the Clubs start up thier Membership Packages for 2011...
 
Yes TW the deal was done long before the semis.Will is great mates with Hayne so theres the connection.The coin is pretty good for a guy who will be 21 when he returns to football.
 
I find this quite astonishing. You're all of 18 or 19, you've spent your entire career to playing and living on the peninsular, as do your similarly talented brothers and you'd leave a very successful club with a winning culture, to go and join Parramatta, a club conceivably destined to perpetual mediocrity?

Part of the deal is taking his father, who'll be appointed in some sort of coaching capacity? Coaching what, you'd be inclined to ask?
 
is that confirmed with John doing some coaching as part of the package

and no, I dont think he is overated, he is outstanding, to think he is only 18 with less than 20 games, it is astonishing.
 
@Citizen Tiger said:
I find this quite astonishing. You're all of 18 or 19, you've spent your entire career to playing and living on the peninsular, as do your similarly talented brothers and you'd leave a very successful club with a winning culture, to go and join Parramatta, a club conceivably destined to perpetual mediocrity?

Part of the deal is taking his father, who'll be appointed in some sort of coaching capacity? Coaching what, you'd be inclined to ask?
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I think his father will be coaching the 'responsible service of alcohol' team, as that is what he is employed as at various nightclubs around kings cross…..
 
Pretty funny, they're signing a guy for a season 2 and a half years away, who in that time probably won't play a single game of football. Idiotic move by an idiotic club.
 
Perhaps Dad will be the Proctology advisor? I'm sure that he'd love to keep his hand in in some capacity. I'd hate to be the Parramatta lock forward if John's coaching anywhere near the scrum.
Apart from those terible puns I thought that the boy was overawed by the occasion and that the wonderful reverse pass was maybe trying to get rid of the ball before he was buried by three tacklers. But then as far as I'm concerned there's nothing good that Manly can do anytime.
 
Personally think the Hopoate signing is a big mistake Two years out of the game at that age will have a big effect
It will probably take him 6 months to get back to full fitness and match fitness
Only time will tell
 
I just heard that they paid $800k a season for him on the news…..Im assuming this is an error, but that is HUUUGE if even in the ball park.

I was undecided whether it was worth the risk, I thought it was a bold move, if they paid even half the reported figure, it is stupid, assuming they doubled it, and he is "only: on $400k, that is still top dollar, for a bloke who is not playing for 2 years, that is crazy.

If, and it is a big if, cause I assume it is an error, they paid $800k, well that is too dumb for words, you could almost get the Slater, Cronk package i always joke about!
 
@Goose said:
I just heard that they paid $800k a season for him on the news…..Im assuming this is an error, but that is HUUUGE if even in the ball park.

I was undecided whether it was worth the risk, I thought it was a bold move, if they paid even half the reported figure, it is stupid, assuming they doubled it, and he is "only: on $400k, that is still top dollar, for a bloke who is not playing for 2 years, that is crazy.

If, and it is a big if, cause I assume it is an error, they paid $800k, well that is too dumb for words, you could almost get the Slater, Cronk package i always joke about!
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Goose that can't be possibly right can it 800 k They would have to be absolutely :crazy to pay that sort of money
I wouldn't pay that for Slater I wouldn't pay that for Cam Smith I wouldn't pay that for Benji …..
 
lol we are talking about the same club who payed 400K apiece for Daniel Mortimer and Justin Poore. When it comes to recruitment/retention, there hasn't been a more boneheaded club in the competition in the last 15 yrs then Parra. 800K for a guy whose played less then 50 games and who won't play his first game for you for another 2 and a half yrs would be pretty typical of something only Parra would do
 
lol… While the Cap might incease to $6M by then ( :laughing: ), thats still 13% of thier Cap on 1 player. :crazy

Not bad for a Club the NRL want to know how they are gona meet thier current debts :roll
 
@Tiger Watto said:
lol… While the Cap might incease to $6M by then ( :laughing: ), thats still 13% of thier Cap on 1 player. :crazy

Not bad for a Club the NRL want to know how they are gona meet thier current debts :roll
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They probably have an arrangement where if the cap is x in 2014, they'll pay him y. 800k is probably the max amount they'd pay (if the cap jumps to like 8 million by then). I doubt they've locked him in at that price with no knowledge of what the cap will be in 2014.
 
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