Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[jadtiger]

This NAS situation needs to be looked into IMO..

I'm sorry if I'm on 850k for 2 more years and the current club has been shopping me around with NO takers why on earth would you walk away and look for other opportunities????

He is not going to get 850k for 2 years elsewhere so something fishy is happening.
So, if he signed with Dragons for say 600k does the storm have to take 250k each year for 2 years like we have to??

NAS has thanked them and said he is going to consider his options so he must have got some kind of pay out..

The NRL will not look into it very closely but give it a clean bill of health.The NRL under Turdberg always claimed that clubs are treated fairly but never stated they were treated equally,nothing has changed since then.
It all comed down to their definition of "fairly".

 

[Ecto-1]

And that's my point Tiger_Yoshi ... No one walks away from 1.7mil over 2 years = MADNESS

They must have paid him out with the condition he makes it sound he is happy to leave.

It just doesn't pass the Pub test

He did walk away from it most likely to a higher payday in Rugby.

 

[tigahhh]

He did walk away from it most likely to a higher payday in Rugby.

SEN said he most likely got a $1m payout of the remaining $1.7m deal he still had

 

[Spartan117]

If you dont cheat, you cant compete

 

[hsvjones]

SEN said he most likely got a $1m payout of the remaining $1.7m deal he still had

That's should come off the cap then as well just like us with Bateman / Klemmer etc..

 

[BlackWhiteGold]

Lindsay Smith, Scott Sorensen and Liam Henry are all set to test the open market. Richo PLEASE look at Henry or Smith

Liam Henry is the type we should go after, young, worthy of a starting prop opportunity, not a rep player yet so more value.

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PANTHER SET TO HIT FREE AGENCY

Penrith premiership forward Liam Henry looks set to hit the open market on November 1. Henry, a fixture in the Panthers forward pack in recent seasons, is yet to field an offer from the Panthers with the clock ticking down until he enters the final year of his deal.

The 24-year-old is set to be in hot demand if the Panthers can’t lock him up in the next three weeks. He isn’t the only Panthers premiership winner set to be up for grabs on November 1.

Lindsay Smith, Luke Garner and Scott Sorensen are also about to enter the final year of their deals. Sorensen has been linked with a move to Perth and the Bears are also likely to take an interest in Henry should he be available.

 

[hank37w]

he was on a ridiculous $800k contract, they would’ve had to pay something

Of course, unless he is quitting rugby league to take up a career in boxing. 🤣

 

[boonboon]

That's should come off the cap then as well just like us with Bateman / Klemmer etc..

And it will. Of course he was paid out a d of course it will come off the cap.

 

[Wiz]

NAS "released" from final 2 years of his contract....How is it the big clubs seem to be able to easily release players from their contracts, yet the WT have to pay them out to go...???

There are ways around it when you have a billionaire owner.

 

[Tiger_Yoshi]

SEN said he most likely got a $1m payout of the remaining $1.7m deal he still had

If true that $1m comes out of their cap?...

 

[tigahhh]

If true that $1m comes out of their cap?...

yeah, caryiannas said $500k a year.

 

[Odessa]

And that's my point Tiger_Yoshi ... No one walks away from 1.7mil over 2 years = MADNESS

They must have paid him out with the condition he makes it sound he is happy to leave.

It just doesn't pass the Pub test

Maybe he's been a naughty boy and the choice of released or sacked

 

[Buttface]

Very good question,
If anyone has the answer can they please let us know ?

It’s an easy answer. The “big clubs” have a better average calibre of talent, and when they have used up the very good ones they can easily get rid of them knowing the smaller clubs will fall over themselves with rose coloured glasses hoping to get a few years of something the player hasn’t produced in 2 seasons.
That doesn’t sound familiar?

 

[Tcat]

With NAS leaving the storm, watch them make a play for Pole

Pole wasn't great for us this year so I'm on the fence.

 

[tiger_one]

Jack Bird<> Nathan Brown swap deal?....WTF....one has been for another...don't do it Richo

 

[Odessa]

Brown was good for manly and plays a roll we don’t have anyone doing , Pole should be but isn’t , Bird become a passenger in our top 20 players so a swap is well and truly best for us , brown off the bench does add some punch and he can play Lock , back row , prop , it’s not a bad deal

And 5/8 in his junior days

 

[Fainu Brothers]

There deadset needs to be an investigation into the NAS sunset deal

 

[Fainu Brothers]

Bubba kennedy taking 350k to stay at Sharks 👀

 

[Needaname]

TITANS NEWS!

- Battle looms for rookie Cooper Bai to stay with Storm and Roosters set to launch bids from Nov 1

i told ya’ll !!!!!!!! should be all over it 😢

Just saw that

 

[crazycat]

yeah, caryiannas said $500k a year.

So riddle me this...
Your the Melbourne storm. You have
NAS on 850k per year.

You pay NAS 500k, per year to break contract.

That leaves 350k of cap remaining. But wait, you still have NAS's spot and the least you can pay someone is 120k.

So the Storm have saved a total of: 230k to punt NAS.

Either they have a total gun ready to step in OR a cap crunch (i.e. warbrick and co they want to keep) OR NAS has pissed people off that much they just want him gone!

I don't get it.