He hasn’t signed a contract and doesn’t need to under the 10 day last right of negotiation rules.
Because he hasn't? Once the 10 day cooling off period is over is when he can officially put pen to paper & become a WT's player for 2025. Only Penrith (not Bulldogs) can come back with a revised offer during that period which they won't do.
Gould, Laundy, Crichton, Ciraldo and Kikau will be calling him multiple times thru the week in an effort to get him to wait out the 10 days and cop an upgraded offer from them. they won't sit on their hands and they certainly don't play ball from an ethical standpoint. I'm not sure if they'll go to $1.2m and I think Luai will stick by his decision, but 10 days is a very long time where plenty can happen.
It's against the rules mate they can't.
Because it’s not his place to announce it.
Mate foxs sports saying this morning bulldogs can still sign him.
they can't put forward a formal offer, but there's no rules against dialogue with other clubs. Gould will 1000% give him a ring.
Yeh, unfortunately. I’ve read the rules and there’s nothing there to rule out an additional rival club. Gould and Ciraldo promised Cleary and Penrith they would not poach. Any Penrith player needs to declare they want out of Penrith before Dogs would make them an offer. Hence the late offer.
And when he backflips on us and signs with them, we’ll have the chance to sign him again. NBD.
Burton is a centre. Nothing ive seen so far shows me he has it for a 5/8th. Hes young though so never know. Hes big enough for a ball playing lock tbh.
the whole "we won't poach unless we know they're leaving" is horseshit. they were desperate for both Crichton and Leniu and were in the background well before 1 November 2022.
Thing is he would have decided this a week ago or longer. And he would have known what the Dogs verbal offer was, as well as what our formal offer was when he made up his mind.
I think Gould would have waited to get an estimate of what we were prepared to offer after already having an advantage with Ciraldo and ex Panther mates. Have no doubt there will be lots of twoing and froing with Luai's manager in the coming days.
I don't think Crichton, Burton, Kikau or Ciraldo will. I would be shocked if they did. They are his mates. No doubt they would have spoken to him over the past few months and shared their thoughts, tried to persuade him, but if he's now made his decision I am sure they would accept it and congratulate their mate on setting up his family.
This would have been before Lai took our offer
