This !Honestly, i have a weird feeling that he will join the Bulldogs.
I heard this morning, from an informed insider, that we are prepared to offload Hodkinson and Halatau, with the retirement of Payne, to sure up Reynolds contract and to make a serious play for thurston.According to SMH this morning the Dogs are his preferred Sydney club as he sees us as his best chance of winning a comp.
Sounds like he read the article and made a few obvious assumptions tbhI heard this morning, from an informed insider, that we are prepared to offload Hodkinson and Halatau, with the retirement of Payne, to sure up Reynolds contract and to make a serious play for thurston.
Not sure how true, but this guys usualy on the money.
do you realise what 200k is?1.2mil is alot of coin. Though it's with the Panthers.
1mil with the Dogs and a chance of winning a few more titles where you started might be more to him?
I can't imagine JT being the type of bloke to take 200k over a genuine threat to no threat.
Don't worry, we'll toss him a free boat and some Harvey Norman vouchers.do you realise what 200k is?
Yeah, our excellent relationship with the rugby league media would make him a shoe-in for a post-football media career...........A lot of players now are signing their last contracts with negotiations with what clubs can offer life after football.
Up at petrolsniffersville, Thurston is a legend and he will get a lot of community work and mentoring roles, however the money in that is not super great.
We are a rich club with plenty to offer and being in Sydney and involved in the media (especially being one of the best halfbacks there has ever been) he will have no problems making ends meet.
If I was in his shoes, I would want a premiership where I was the starting seven to end my career, one day I will be gone however my name in the record books will never disappear.
I don't see any problem with that. Hodkinson wouldn't re-sign here if we got Thurston anyway. That's 270K off the cap from Hodko alone.I heard this morning, from an informed insider, that we are prepared to offload Hodkinson and Halatau, with the retirement of Payne, to sure up Reynolds contract and to make a serious play for thurston.
Not sure how true, but this guys usualy on the money.
He didn't say thurston had made a decision, he said we were freeing up money to make a serious play at him.Sounds like he read the article and made a few obvious assumptions tbh
I doubt thurston has made any sort of decision yet himself