Happy to Let Hoppa walk early?

[Trafford10]

I’m hearing a whisper that TWO Sydney clubs may come a knocking in November with a longer term offer for Hopoate (certainly beyond 2020).

Thoughts, happy for him to leave a year early? BTW full freight, no subsidy required by the Dogs.

 

[Scoooby]

He has been great. Very consistent!! Lost a lot though but his experience is second to none.

I don’t have an opinion either way.

 

[The_Chimpster]

No, not until we sign a capable replacement.

He cops it one here regularly, with such smart nicknames like "floppa" but the fact remains he's one of our better backs, and consistently one of our best every week

 

[Scoooby]

No, not until we sign a capable replacement.

He cops it one here regularly, with such smart nicknames like "floppa" but the fact remains he's one of our better backs, and consistently one of our best every week

Chimpy !!!!

 

[CrittaMagic69]

I'm happy to pretty much let anyone walk early if it's what they want, chances are they're on overs anyway.

 

[GDR]

absolutely .. would be on ridiculous money next year at a guess.

he is far too slow and also is regularly dominated in tackles .. i dont care how silky his skills are.

 

[pisssst]

I don’t know what all the fuss about hoppa is, I’d be glad if he left.

 

[bulldog]

I'm still peeved that the club and he thought it was a good idea to skip Sundays, ancient history now but still makes my blood boil.

Solid performer, but hasn't formed any real combinations with the players around him in attack or defence. I wouldn't be happy to see him go, but it wouldn't be the end of the world.

We need more, for all his skills he lacks aggression with and without the ball.

 

[Flanagun]

Pfft he's one of our best and most consistent backs..... no way.

 

[Straight18]

Let him go. We need his money to get ruthless like the rorters.
Manu will come here on less than what where paying hoppa.

 

[Moedogg]

Would be a good player in a great team .. We need a strike centre.

 

[TABOO]

You'd want to be signing someone very good in his stead.
See what happened when we lost the wealth of experience in the Morris boys?
We have been decimated down their edge all year.
Yeah, he cops a lot of flak here but even with Hoppa we are demanding (Rightfully) a gun centre; letting him go means we need 2.

There are some advantages to letting him go but it must be handled better than the Klemmer/Napa situation.
He's been great for us depsite what some people will say but maybe we do need a full clean out.

 

[bcmf]

We should always go for trades.. dunno why we don’t do that more often

 

[the_insider]

No one will take him for full freight, no point letting him go if we're going to still pay part of his contract, he's not a bad player just on more money than he should be

 

[Raysie]

No more letting go of players unless they're actually being replaced by someone better. Fuck we've become a joke lately.

 

[c-b-b]

Can you imagine Montoya and Holland in the centres FMD.

But if we can get someone to pay full freight and we can find a suitable replacement then yes it might be to our caps benefit.

 

[Cosmo24]

absolutely .. would be on ridiculous money next year at a guess.

he is far too slow and also is regularly dominated in tackles .. i dont care how silky his skills are.

X2

 

[B-Train]

For sure. Hoppa has been pretty good but he'd be on 600k or more on a backended deal next year. Hoppa, Jackson, Tolman and Foran should all be shopped heading into the last years of their deals. Some teams will have interest in each as long as partial freight is paid for most of them.

That would still free up over $2 million and replacement players can be signed during this offseason for 2020, despite being under contract for longer. You see huge amounts of movement every offseason.

This would allow Holbrook or whoever else to put their stamp on the team right away.

 

[Dogs2004]

backended or not should not be let go unless there is a suitable replacement ...hows the manu rumour going

 

[GrogDog]

Not unless we have his replacement signed up already and someone better! At this stage we have released a lot and not replaced much. We keep downgrading in these player movements and look where we are. We need to start asking these clubs for players in return and not their scraps.