Hello, tell me something I don't know, how about shifting focus to the media, all they have done the last 3 days is bitch on about us being in Cap trouble whilst using fake numbers. At least I quoted the Zero Tackle salaries, without adding the odd $50k or $100k here or there to substantiate their biased BS.
Robbo has won 3 premierships, 2013, 2018 and 2019 and our cap gets called into question every farking year. Even today it's getting called into question when we have lost Cordner, Friend, JMorris, BMorris, Ikuvalu and Liu and gained Watson, Atoni and Momirovski. Our last "marquee" signing was Angus Critchon 3 years ago, but you can rest assured our cap will be questioned again, particularly if we are top 4 in 2022.
Of course it should be questioned when the Chooks have 7 out 30 players taking up way more than half of their Cap. Quick maths says the remaining 23 are on an average $170k, against a minimum of $130k next year. They have to have a lot of minimum contract players (on $130k) saving $40k each to pay for anything like decent back ups. That's why there is a huge gulf between the 1st 17 and the next 13, the Grand Canyon has nothing on that.
Roosters gloat about getting players for unders then in the next breath use losing those same players as reasons they are well under the cap and can afford another marquee player or 3.
Another one the NRL failed to investigate when the Warriors offered him around $1 million a season and yet he re-signs for significantly under market value
The West Tigers offered Fatrell Mitchell 1mill a season, yet he signed for the Scabbitohs for 800, what you're bitching about happens all the time with every other club.
There's third party and then third party....
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Knights in trouble now... no Pearce or Brailey. Clune and Randall (? maybe Mann) are massive downgrades.
Yeah Pearce & Brailey are massive losses. We should finish higher than them now.
Poor dude has no luck. He was the Knights best player last year after coming back from a previous ACL tear..
Doubt it. We don’t have a hooker or halfback either.
We will see. I think we finish higher than them for sure.
Surely we do now there hooker is down. That now minimises Saifitis impact, as they have formed a good partnership
Knights are a perfect example of recruitment of a bunch of players over an offseason doesn’t amount to overnight success, especially with Barrett coaching still. Good to have optimism but I’m tempering mine until we see how good our team actually plays together (and whether Barrett knows what to do with them).
