Wille Mason Thread

[mattc78]

save money and dont contract either buy some quality props next year thats what I recon

 

[The_Tooth]

Yep. Do you know how may years he has remaining on his contract. 2010 + ?

60K is only the first year, from then on WT would shoulder the full load.

Is it worth it and to risk losing young players….

I am Mixed about Lote and Willie

 

[clontarfkid]

Everything Ive read points to 2010 being the final year of Willies $450k/yr contract with Easts..a contract which was heavily back-end loaded….which means this yr is gotta be worth plus or minus around $600k to Willie.Big bickies.
Easts have(again allegedly)offered him $100k to "go way"this season,but Willie is rightfully saying wheres the rest
I doubt very much whether Easts wld pick up the difference between the supposed $60 k hes being offered for,& the $600k or so hes owed this yr.
Think you'll see Willie playing jim Beam Cup in 2010

 

[AmericanHistoryX]

i dont believe it. Tim Sheens aint that stoopid is he?

 

[hammertime]

At that price, we should definitely pick him up for the year! For only $60k, we could leave him running around in State Cup and still get our moneys worth.

 

[westTAHger]

on field performances gets the end results. two points.
off field performances give you bad press and image.
the club has a good image, and I would not like to see it go back to the dark times of early wests-tigers.
do i know for sure by having willie mason at the club, this will occur, I don't.
if the club see value in having Willie Mason at the club, then its their decision, to be honest, its not going to stop anyone going to the games and suport the team they adore being wests-tigers.

 

[Guest]

At that price, we should definitely pick him up for the year! For only $60k, we could leave him running around in State Cup and still get our moneys worth.

At that price I still wouldn't want him at the Tigers.

 

[Muffstar]

Maybe Folkes and Mason need to have a sit down meeting and go through any issues that they may have. Get Benny, Sheens, Humphries together to sort things out. 60K a bargin, we are probably paying more for Fitzhenry who is useless.

 

[Danos]

You could flush 60K down the toilet and get more in return than what Willie could offer us.

 

[quintus]

Ask yourself this question,"Who would be the biggest asset to our team", Folkes or Mason? Because there is only room for one and in my opinion that man is already employed by us.

 

[nyx]

So if a team pays Willie 60k and the Roosters pay the rest, how does that work with the salary cap?

Does only the 60K apply to the new team's cap?

 

[T-REXX]

i think the tigers should pay mason 60k to piss off to uk or france

 

[AJ1]

If Mason was to cost us nothing, the club should not sign him. His negative attitude and behaviour would do more worse then good.

 

[red_dogg]

too slow, cant tackle, bad influence on our up and coming youth, has always bagged our pack every yr, selfish,
not what our club needs….

 

[Geo]

Smith not a factor in Willie decision
* By Andrew Webster
Source: The Daily Telegraph
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THE decision to cut Willie Mason adrift was made before Brian Smith was appointed coach. It is a directive that won't change. Mason won't play in the Tricolours again.
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"I seriously doubt he will be playing first grade for the Roosters," captain Braith Anasta said in an exclusive blog for The Daily Telegraph yesterday. "But I'm sure he'll play first grade somewhere and I wish him all the best."
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Smith won't comment on the situation and chief executive Steve Noyce would only offer: "Willie and I have had a number of chats about his involvement here and the opportunities that may have been elsewhere. How that plays out, I'm not sure."
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Behind the scenes, those who matter steadfastly believe that Mason has no place at their club. It is a belief held firm by chairman Nick Politis and the board, and was in place long before Smith was announced as Brad Fittler's replacement. Smith has merely stayed out of it.
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The decision to sign Mason in late 2007 had a whiff of getting one up on the Bulldogs, the side that beat them in the 2004 Grand Final.
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Now Mason has the Roosters over a barrel. The Roosters won't pay out the final year of his contract - reportedly worth about $400,000 - so another NRL side can snap him up in the second-tier salary cap.
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That they are prepared to sacrifice that amount as they cultivate a new culture is significant.
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The perception at the top is that Mason has been a toxic influence on the younger players. Many felt he undermined Fittler during the year.
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Whether he relocates to Japan, France, another NRL club or the Roosters' feeder club Newtown is of little consequence to the powers that be.

Rorters over a barrell…........Awesome........ :smiley:

 

[samtiger]

I'd think about taking him if the price were right.
I think the Roosters are using Willy as a scape goat for the rotten year they had in 2009.
Willy has been around a long time and in that time in most successful teams.
All the incidents @ the Roosters can't be blamed on the influence of Willy.
If he is a bad influence on the younger players he should have been told to stick his head in long ago.
It's says alot about the Roosters as a club. Noyce must wish he stayed at the Tigers.

 

[Balmain_Bug]

Im starting to think that we should give this bloke a crack.

 

[simonthetiger]

Im starting to think that we should give this bloke a crack.

Omigod…....I agree with you???? 😱pen_mouth:
:astonished:

 

[Guest]

He's most likely off to Manly.

 

[Juro]

How many clubs is he going to play for now???