AdelaideTiger
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Knew it was one of those two. Thanks for the correction
Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion
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The thing is, you have absolutely no idea if that's true or not. He missed a chunk of last season with mental health issues and some pretty frightening rumours about what might be behind those. When he did play last season, he scored once in 13 games (yes, that's not the only stat that matters but it's not nothing that his try scoring rate has gone from one in two or three games in 2020-21 to one in four then one in 13), he's been left out of the round one team by the Roosters and he's a small back rower in his late 20s with the accumulation of injuries that implies. Maybe he's still good but you absolutely cannot definitively say he is given there are more red flags flying than a military parade in the USSR.
What you mean is: Angus Crichton in 2021 was 3x Seyfarth. Now, he might still be but equally he could be 1.5x Seyfarth or 0.5x or 0x. You've no idea. What you can be 100% sure of is that he'd be 3x Seyfarth's salary. The idea that we might end up with Crichton and Bateman chewing up $1.5m a season between them for the next three years is frankly terrifying. Paying Bateman that amount of money for that long is why we have to play Seyfarth in the first place.
For the last time (ha ha): players are not who they were 3-5 years ago.
GNR4LIFE
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No way Bateman sees out the next 3 years. I’d go as far as saying this could be his last year before he goes back home.
Roar_Power
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Isn't he being paid $800k per season?
GNR4LIFE
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Not sure. But I’m sure a SL club will pay him whatever he’ on here
Tiger_Yoshi
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If he does get released, it only due to his poor attitude….it stinks
Tucker
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That’s what I thought when the Luai talk began in earnest.
“A bloke who has played in the past 4 GFs, won a SOO series, led a country to a World Cup final isn’t coming to this dump”…they are all realistic targets these days.
Roar_Power
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They have a much lower salary cap from memory.
WestsTigers4VR
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He was just named VC I highly doubt he would leave at the end of this year. Idk were the stigma came from the he loves leaving clubs early.
GNR4LIFE
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My gut tells me he won’t be here for 3 more years.
You're dreaming. He was widely understood to be cooked when we signed him, no way any club's paying him that much two years further down the line. If we're lucky we'll be able to shift him paying half his wages. He could easily be another Nofoaluma.
GNR4LIFE
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Ok
WesternSuburbsBoy
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The guy put in more effort last year then Nofoaluma has the last 3 years.
There cap is around 6 million Australian I believe
weststigerman
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He left Canberra because he was homesick, he's back in Oz because his partner is homesick, seems to go back to the UK in the middle and during our pre-season. He needs to decide where he wants to be.
not convinced yet as they made him Vice Captain so clearly Benji likes him
BAGNF05
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What are you basing that on?
BAGNF05
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One of our top 3 or 4 players.
Snidest 0
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His usual tea leaf reading...
Don't worry about it as his predictions historically have a general success rate of 0.00002%
This is just GNR being "Chicken Little" as usual...
(I vividly remember how certain he was that Farah was going to sign with Parra under Ricky!!)
