It all depends on the bigger picture and what are the club's plans.
True. I was at Belmore in 2018 when Canberra ran us down and Sezer played a big part in that. It sucked to watch, especially when Leilua scored the match winner and gave a gobful to the Morris boys who missed the tackle. Ouch.
Agree. But I think Canberra won't be better for letting him go... Williams is ok but both he and Wighton play similar and prefer left edge.
Crazy but surely we can find a centre that can play in the Halves Instead.. wink wink.
Let’s hope so and half the price of Latrell
Would prefer Sezer on one year as a stop gap for Foran and see which young half steps up. But realistically that won’t happen when Sezer has a 3 year deal waiting in England. I’m just not confident we can go close to a premiership this year with our young and inexperienced halves.
As long as we aren’t short of backup if injuries occur
Not when their spot in the top 30 has to be filled by a minimum wage player (can't remember what the base limit is) this shackles alot of teams, especially when paying other players to play elsewhere
Minimum wage was $55k PA - it might be going up for 2020. I agree re: shackles - it's not as easy to manage a cap as some think.
Really? I thought the minimum wage for Top 30 players was somewhere around the 100K-115K mark
You're right - I screwed up, looking at old data. There was a big jump in the minimum wage from $55-75k around 2013 and last year it went to min $100k for players 1-26 and $70k for players 27-30 (obviously many earn much more than this, particularly 1-26). Amazing that in just 5 years the cap has gone up 40% - $5.5m (2014) to $9.1m (2019) - most of that coming from broadcast and digital rights I guess. It's all here for anyone interested: https://www.nrl.com/operations/integrity/salary-cap/
Does he come with croutons?
Haha. He used to hate being called salad when he was with us
Mate we are not competing for a title until 2022 if the club plays its cards right... Adding Sezer to the line-up is only going to hamper further progress of 3 young halves who will be capable of wining a title in a few years. We seriously need to find out which one or two of those 3 will make it asap.
