Rock Hopper Steve
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If he wants to leave, I'd spring the option to give Attard another year to develop, if he's as good a guy as everyone thinks, during his remaining time we would expect him to perform.
Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion
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It’s OK Mrs Lestronge, we get it now, you’re just here to wind up your husband. 🤣
Tom Shines
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I got no issue with Bula doing his best in 2026 if he is signed elsewhere
Attard might be a bit young for 2027…
I got no issue with Bula doing his best in 2026 if he is signed elsewhere
Attard might be a bit young for 2027…
innsaneink
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That would be everywhere 6 times a day
Rock Hopper Steve
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Bula's club option is for 27 that gives Attard 2 more seasons to develop.
Tom Shines
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Whens the option due to be taken up? I heard April
Rock Hopper Steve
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Not sure on the deadline it was mentioned on here recently but April rings a bell.
Tiger_claws
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Has there been any further talk of Josh Curran leaving Dogs. I think he would be a good buy also Ray Stone. Would like either one of those. Both can negotiate now for 27
Tom Shines
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My gut feel is Richo isn’t picking it up
GNR4LIFE
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Could be an element of who blinks first with the 27 option. Why would Bula take up the option, when for an extra 100k, the club could pick it up.
Tom Shines
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I don’t know enough about the wording of the option … what’s the deadline … is he in the open market now for 2027?
Rock Hopper Steve
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Well, if contract extension talks are going favourably, you'd expect not, like everyone on here I just wish the F it gets done sooner rather than later so we can just concentrate on pre-season and dream that we are in for a big year as we do every summer.
Snidest 0
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FALSE - there has been ONE story in which he was interviewed by Tyson Otto for the Teleghraph that was first published today!
He's been in NYC with his wife for the past fornight and has given no interviews since he was in Fiji camp prior to his holiday!
He does not state anything about seeing how he goes this season before making a decision in the Otto interview either - so you did misread it.
The only other media has been Richo confirming that we are working on a significant extension for Jahream...
Stop jumping at shadows and confusing social media posts as "news articles" FFS!
Feel free to apologise anytime you want @GNR4LIFE for making it about you and accusing me of homophobia when I don't even know if your a male or female.. or maybe you're both.. or maybe you identify as a cis trans bisexual... I assume the narcism just comes naturally..
Snidest 0
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He isn't because he has confirmed the following:
Wests Tigers have opened talks with Jahream Bula over a long-term extension at the club, confident the fullback will now take up a new multi-year deal for beyond 2026.
Bula remains the highest-profile fullback available to sign for 2027, with a mutual clause in his current Tigers contract effectively making him a free agent.
The 23-year-old's current deal expires at the end of 2026, but the Tigers have an option in their favour to extend it for a further year at close to $900,000.
Bula also has an option in his favour to extend the deal into 2027, on a salary of around $800,000.
There had been questions over Bula's future at the Tigers, particularly after he switched management companies to Isaac Moses' Cove Agency.
Moses had overseen Lachlan Galvin's controversial exit from the Tigers earlier this year.
But those clauses would effectively become redundant if a new longer deal was struck, with the Tigers having met with Bula's management in recent weeks.
"I don't want to do a pick-up of the option, I want to do an extension long term," Tigers CEO Shane Richardson told AAP.
"He wants to be here. Unlike Galvin, who didn't want to be here, he wants to be here.
"You never count your chickens until they hatch, but I am pretty confident we will get it done."
Tigers confident Bula will stay on long-term extension
Wests Tigers CEO Shane Richardson is confident Jahream Bula will sign a multi-year deal at the NRL club, with talks moving beyond a one-year option for 2026.
aapnews.aap.com.au
Nonotmeagain
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Even the "news articles" aren't truthful especially from the Telegraph
Come on Snidest... Stop using reason.
There are a subset of WT supporters who have psychological damage as a result of our shambles of a club; we can't blame, all of us true fans have been scarred..
There is a bigger issue in the world at the moment with social media now becoming a "reliable news source"...
Going off on a tangent here, but theres a page I somehow started following on insta called "the noticer news"... There were a few interesting posts that caught my interest... But over time I have become convinced that it's actually a page being run by neo-nazis who have an agenda - they post things from overseas and make it look like it's in Australia.. or post "news" that happened 18 months ago and portray it as recent events..
It's a genuine concern for the future as there is a generation who is buying this BS without fact checking and validating.
GNR4LIFE
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I’d say he doesn’t have permission to negotiate with anyone else, otherwise clubs would falling out of the sky to try and sign him.
Snidest 0
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Again - learn the difference between opinion pieces masquerading as news that quote unnamed sources - & news articles that directly verbatim quote their primary sources (in this case the two supplied articles that quote Jahream and Richo directly) and work out what is credible!
It's not that hard!
