Chammas doesn't get his info from Isaac. he has plenty of mutual friends but not from Isaac directly. he also has a lot of close connections to WT from his time being close to Pascoe during the Madge era. those lines of contact don't just disappear.
Bula can activate his own extension with us at 800k per season if he really loves the club and wants to stay.
no i know, but weilder is. just because it’s coming from chammas’ mouth doesn’t mean it’s not from isaac if you get me. tin foil hat stuff but driving bula’s value down like he was gets the dogs a cheap deal.
i could say the same about us not activating his option. shows him where we stand.
I would assume so and if could mean the club sees him as a 800k per season player, not a 900k per season player just yet.
He's not worth losing over 100k.
Negotiation tactics. Richo isn’t going to hand Moses the deal he wants on a platter.
when do we/him need to activate it by, at the latest?
Why would he activate it if teams like Perth and R360 come in with bigger, longer term offers?
Thats what I think too, 900K gets you some very solid fullbacks, I also think that the club could be looking at saving money and bringing in someone like Sua from the storm or one of the titans 50 fullback they have
If we got kini omg
You cannot just pay players an extra 100k above what you believe their true value is.
I dare say the Tigers might be proposing an extension beyond the option and he's been allowed to test the market to see if the price is right.
Richo is what we need, a leader to ensure we value players correctly and stands their ground with managers.
Why would R360 know who Bula is ? They will have enough RU players from Europe, Japan, South Africa, Fiji etc and Australia/NZ not to have to worry about a fullback from a team that has run no better than 13th in the last 4 years in the NRL. Most NRL fullbacks do not have the kicking, defensive skill set that RU requires. Bula is untried in professional RU. They can pick better fullbacks from all those places mentioned above that a background in the game. Same goes for Perth - if they want to make a splash they aren't going to come after a one-trick pony from the 13th best side.
tbf r360 are looking at Jye gray & Will Kennedy so lol it’s not that far fetched. we already know he’s on perths radar.
How would you define "true value"?
Totally! It would seem to me that R360 would have little to no interest in most NRL players. They will look at players who have a union background.
