Inglis gone to Broncos
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Yeah but they are also keeping Slater, Smith & Cronk along with the remainder of their player group. Manu, Blair etc are all named in their finalised squad.
Nothing suss about that
Nothing suss about that
IronTiger
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Not bad is it, lose Falou and gain Inglis…a nice headache for a coach.
tiger_tigers
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inglis on around 600 k . locky on 500 k ….hannant say 300 k ,,,thaiday ..280.....thats say 1.7 give or take a couple hundred thou ...and thats only 4 players...the game is a joke ... theyve moved one player to another club and all is cool .....do the sums ....the other 21 players are on 100k or less .. thats why the passion for the game is leaving pretty quickly .....
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@tiger tigers said:
Brisbane were only going to offer him Inglis $400,000 max per year.
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<big>Inglis to join Broncos next season</big>
By Wayne Heming, AAP August 10, 2010, 6:44 pm
In the end, Greg Inglis made the final play.
While Melbourne revealed they could have kept their superstar and still got back under the NRL salary cap next year, Inglis is heading to Brisbane to play for the Broncos and be closer to fiancee Sally Robinson.
"If we were purely cold and clinical and commercial then we probably would have kept him," said recently appointed Storm boss Ron Gauci.
"But it's not about being cold and clinical.
"We're looking at players' livelihoods here and their own personal circumstances.
"… This would have had an impact on other players and other players' careers."
Shattered coach Craig Bellamy desperately wanted Inglis to stay in Storm colours and the club did everything in its power to make it happen - everything except change his mind and, more importantly, his heart.
Once all the cards were put on the table, Inglis wanted to play for the Broncos and spend more time with Robinson, who lives and works in Brisbane.
Like an edge-of-your-seat game, Inglis produced the big play, forcing Melbourne to grant him a release from the final two years of his contract.
The upside for the Storm is, after releasing Inglis and prop Brett White who will join Canberra, the club will now be able to sign new players and still be salary cap-compliant in 2011, allowing them to again accrue competition points.
Bellamy made no secret of his desire to hold onto his Fab Four of skipper Cameron Smith, Billy Slater, Cooper Cronk and Inglis.
"(Bellamy's) preferred option was he wanted Greg in the side," said Gauci.
"Having said that, for us to continue to be competitive down the track and to retain an onfield balance, he also knew that if we were going to secure some ongoing success that maybe there was an opportunity to bring in new blood.
"The buffer we now have in the salary cap allows us to go back into the market and acquire new players and (Bellamy) is excited by that opportunity.
"(If we had retained Inglis) we would either have lost quite a number of players or some high-value players in small numbers.
"Either way it was going to seriously impact the team and we didn't want to do that to Melbourne Storm going forward."
Brisbane sent contracts to Inglis on Tuesday afternoon after receiving an e-mail from Melbourne at 1.41pm notifying them of his release.
"We immediately got in touch with his manager (Allan Gainey) who confirmed back to us by e-mail that Greg had accepted our terms," said Broncos chief executive Bruno Cullen.
"He hasn't signed yet but he's definitely agreed to terms."
Changes to salary cap conditions to be introduced in 2011 played a part in Brisbane being able to offer Inglis more money on Monday without actually changing their original base offer of around $400,000.
Contrary to some reports, Inglis may not topple skipper Darren Lockyer as Brisbane's highest paid player.
However, if his agent is good at his job, he could attract some hefty third party deals which would ensure he remains one of the game's biggest earners.
Cullen would not go into specifics but conceded the landscape covering players' earnings under the salary cap had changed dramatically, which worked in Brisbane's favour.
Cullen denied Inglis's signing would infuriate Storm fans and further strain relations which soured after Brisbane upset Melbourne in the 2006 grand final.
"Fans always get angry, particularly the Melbourne mob," said Cullen.
"They're down there, they're isolated, they're Mexicans and everyone hates them, which is not true.
"We love Melbourne and we love them in the competition and we want them to be strong.
"Players change clubs and there shouldn't be any anger towards the Broncos.
"We never chased him or hunted him up or targeted him, he came to us."
http://au.sports.yahoo.com/nrl/news/article/-/7739153/inglis-join-broncos-season" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
By Wayne Heming, AAP August 10, 2010, 6:44 pm
In the end, Greg Inglis made the final play.
While Melbourne revealed they could have kept their superstar and still got back under the NRL salary cap next year, Inglis is heading to Brisbane to play for the Broncos and be closer to fiancee Sally Robinson.
"If we were purely cold and clinical and commercial then we probably would have kept him," said recently appointed Storm boss Ron Gauci.
"But it's not about being cold and clinical.
"We're looking at players' livelihoods here and their own personal circumstances.
"… This would have had an impact on other players and other players' careers."
Shattered coach Craig Bellamy desperately wanted Inglis to stay in Storm colours and the club did everything in its power to make it happen - everything except change his mind and, more importantly, his heart.
Once all the cards were put on the table, Inglis wanted to play for the Broncos and spend more time with Robinson, who lives and works in Brisbane.
Like an edge-of-your-seat game, Inglis produced the big play, forcing Melbourne to grant him a release from the final two years of his contract.
The upside for the Storm is, after releasing Inglis and prop Brett White who will join Canberra, the club will now be able to sign new players and still be salary cap-compliant in 2011, allowing them to again accrue competition points.
Bellamy made no secret of his desire to hold onto his Fab Four of skipper Cameron Smith, Billy Slater, Cooper Cronk and Inglis.
"(Bellamy's) preferred option was he wanted Greg in the side," said Gauci.
"Having said that, for us to continue to be competitive down the track and to retain an onfield balance, he also knew that if we were going to secure some ongoing success that maybe there was an opportunity to bring in new blood.
"The buffer we now have in the salary cap allows us to go back into the market and acquire new players and (Bellamy) is excited by that opportunity.
"(If we had retained Inglis) we would either have lost quite a number of players or some high-value players in small numbers.
"Either way it was going to seriously impact the team and we didn't want to do that to Melbourne Storm going forward."
Brisbane sent contracts to Inglis on Tuesday afternoon after receiving an e-mail from Melbourne at 1.41pm notifying them of his release.
"We immediately got in touch with his manager (Allan Gainey) who confirmed back to us by e-mail that Greg had accepted our terms," said Broncos chief executive Bruno Cullen.
"He hasn't signed yet but he's definitely agreed to terms."
Changes to salary cap conditions to be introduced in 2011 played a part in Brisbane being able to offer Inglis more money on Monday without actually changing their original base offer of around $400,000.
Contrary to some reports, Inglis may not topple skipper Darren Lockyer as Brisbane's highest paid player.
However, if his agent is good at his job, he could attract some hefty third party deals which would ensure he remains one of the game's biggest earners.
Cullen would not go into specifics but conceded the landscape covering players' earnings under the salary cap had changed dramatically, which worked in Brisbane's favour.
Cullen denied Inglis's signing would infuriate Storm fans and further strain relations which soured after Brisbane upset Melbourne in the 2006 grand final.
"Fans always get angry, particularly the Melbourne mob," said Cullen.
"They're down there, they're isolated, they're Mexicans and everyone hates them, which is not true.
"We love Melbourne and we love them in the competition and we want them to be strong.
"Players change clubs and there shouldn't be any anger towards the Broncos.
"We never chased him or hunted him up or targeted him, he came to us."
http://au.sports.yahoo.com/nrl/news/article/-/7739153/inglis-join-broncos-season" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Tiger_Watto
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@alien said:
They up'd it Alien by a good number.
400k was never going to 'allow' Melbourne to release him…
Tiger_Watto
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@tiger tigers said:
Payments aren't as structured as that. Your talking about average payments over X amount of years including 3rd party and exemptions. The Salary Cap variable for Inglis could be as low as $320k in 2011 and around $540k in 2012\. (Meaning only $430k of his reported $570k per year is apart of the Top 25 Cap)
You are correct about a lot of players not being on much. But I suppose plenty of players would prefer to put Career Results on their Resume before fielding offers from other clubs to source better incomes. You only need to point to Brisbane's On-field Results & the number of Rep Players they have Produced over the last 20 years to realize why players will go there for little money, say over a club like the Tigers.
@Tiger Watto said:
I still think they would be squeezing the cap Watto.
Locky, Thaiday, Hodges, Parker. Hannant returning on top dollar, and now Inglis. McCullough, Tronc, Norman, Hoffman, Yow Yeh & Gillett would all be looking to upgrade contracts and sign longer. They're only releasing Winterstein, Sims and Folau. They would only have a window of a couple of years to win a premiership with all those players before the cap starts pushing some of them out.
Can't argue with your comment on signing for less to guarantee success. Brisbane has a proven record and the move always seems to benefit a players career. You don't see many players going there and coming out worse off. Why come to the Tigers or Sharks for $300,000 a year, when you can play for Melbourne or Brisbane for a year or two for half that, improve vastly, get noticed and then shop yourself to the NRL or ESL for $400,000 a season.
Tiger_Watto
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It all comes down to interpretation and how a club makes it become Legal…
A 1 team town also helps with finding clever investment opportunities for your players!!!
A 1 team town also helps with finding clever investment opportunities for your players!!!
KingOvKingz09
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@Chris said:
:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
If you guys think the Brisbane Broncos were payin unders to their players for the last 20 years you are kidding yourselves…. :laughing:
They were giving Unce' Wayne a Million bucks under the counter....And he's was just the Coach
Inglis is another in a long line of mercinaries to benefit from Ribot's vision.....
They were giving Unce' Wayne a Million bucks under the counter....And he's was just the Coach
Inglis is another in a long line of mercinaries to benefit from Ribot's vision.....
jirskyr
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@Geo. said:
A lot of it is legal too right, like the Thoroughbreds? You can give whatever you want to a club if you are not a sponsor. It's just that most clubs (Sydney especially) don't have non-sponsor benefactors putting in that kind of money.
Marshall_magic
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Brisbane wouldn't be over the cap. Not even close.
Apart from Lockyer (who would have a long term player concession), Inglis, Hodges, Hannant, Parker, Thaiday and Wallace they'd be lucky to have another player on more than 150k a year. Some of the guys above wouldn't be on much more than 150k anyway.
Apart from Lockyer (who would have a long term player concession), Inglis, Hodges, Hannant, Parker, Thaiday and Wallace they'd be lucky to have another player on more than 150k a year. Some of the guys above wouldn't be on much more than 150k anyway.
Tiger_Watto
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@Geo. said:
Uncle Wayne STILL gets a nice slice of the pie…
I wonder if any "free" boats are included in his deal?
tiger_tigers
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@Tiger Watto said:
brisbane have 20 players on third party agreements according to bruno cullen,, so its a legal loophole .. as i said no wonder the passion is fading away …..
TigersFan4Life
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Excellent Phil Gould article on the issue…
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/why-brisbane-deal-stinks-20100814-1240d.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/why-brisbane-deal-stinks-20100814-1240d.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
