Broncos are considering it now. The loan, not necessarily with us, I’m merely asking the forum if it would be a good idea.
Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion
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user118245
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Oh I thought this news was before Billy did his ACL. Bit of a risk by Bronx in a title window considering how old Reno and hunt are and Billy coming back from ACL, but could pay dividends
I would be happy with that.
Somehow I don’t think that will be agreed to.
Canadian Club
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Its also important to note that Bula is on the same timeline as our squad... We have the youngest team in the competition. Jahream is 3-4 years away from his peak. Another year or two with Api, Jahrome and Latu/Doueihi will only help him develop into an elite players. He's absolutely worth investing in.
Tiger Stripes
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Exactly.
Squeeze the piggy bank dry and leave too few $$$$ to strengthen other positions.
ie. Not enough $$$$$ to buy or attract the right players to fill the vulnerable positions.
Got to buy into the team culture, future plans, directions and your teammates.
Failing that; ---- you languish forever in in nowhere land. No finals.
Tiger Stripes
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A good investment is buying at the right price.
Rock Hopper Steve
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Only a fool would buy shares when they are too high, resist the temptation/angst.
Cost is very important as when paying players above 800k it means they are the ones that need to regularly be highly dominant match winners.
I would go as high as an upgrade to 800k for Jahream in 2026, providing he also signs for 800k in 2027 and 2028.
That would give him the loyalty and respect of a decent upgrade for 2026 and show of confidence in also being paid extremely well for 2027 and 2028.
It would also be a renegotiated contract that would give dopey Isaac his cut.
It would also give us that little bit of wiggle room to upgrade the likes of Terrell May who will also likely be looking for 800k to extend with us as well as hopefully extending all 3 Fainu brothers and potentially adding a little bit more quality to consolidate the overall strength of our squad.
Tiger_Yoshi
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If richo had no intention of signing Bula on, surely he wouldve gone hard for Kennedy with $600k offer
426Tlgerland
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You would have got Kennedy at $ 450 Going off reports he signed for $ 400 , and still had cash for upgrades or another player
People worry about the clubs money as if they're major shareholders or something...
To us Bula is worth the money. We have no other fullbacks at the club, there's not many top ones available to sign, and we are a much better team with him in it
The longer we keep our spine together the more success we will have. Bula is extremely fast, a try scorer and showed big improvements in his play making while still only like 22. No brainer to keep him imo
To us Bula is worth the money. We have no other fullbacks at the club, there's not many top ones available to sign, and we are a much better team with him in it
The longer we keep our spine together the more success we will have. Bula is extremely fast, a try scorer and showed big improvements in his play making while still only like 22. No brainer to keep him imo
Nonotmeagain
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Or selling at the right price.
GNR4LIFE
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Astute question from a club who have made the finals 3 times in 25 years.
You keep going on about Bula not activating his clause is a bad thing, yet you have zero idea if Bula and the club are in the middle of working through a revised contract which would be a good thing.
We know you aren’t the biggest fan of his but his clauses are short sighted and doubt the club is focusing on a 1yr addition for a key positional player.
Tito Santana
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Yeah fire up big Tits!
Tito Santana
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Yep i do agree. Hes probably not worth that money - yet. But the comment around the spine is valuable.
Tom Shines
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Bula’s situation has been complicated with the change of Agent ….and the new agent not receiving any compensation for two years due to the deal negotiated by the prior agent … assume the club is using this as leverage to get a new longer deal …eventually the ball is the clubs court , as they can choose to activate the deal to keep him here for 2027… I expect Richo to pull that lever if
he has to …
he has to …
He's not worth that money yet and has been overpaid the last few years for sure.
Problem is with paying on Potential, As soon as you start to get value for money
(That salary becomes the bottom line)
- The Agent starts looking for an increase and round again we go.
crazycat
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This is what sucks.
The Sharks got Kennedy for 400k (I heard 350k).
We would have had to spend at least 500k to get him here. At least.
My guess:
Moses or another agent had their client express interest at playing for Cronulla, Kennedy took massive unders to stay. I get it, he wants a ring and wants to stay with his mates.
