Not an unknown fullback. A fullback that everyone could see had a lot of potential and they were not the only club chasing Ponga. It would be like us signing Harry Grant now but on a smaller scale (similar to when we signed Lichaa). Sometimes they work out, sometimes they don't. Now we look at it and they got Ponga for cheap. A top five fullback on that money for a few years before getting an upgrade. Hodkinson was great for us but obviously wasn't the man to carry a whole team of shitters on his back (this is before they recruited all the names I mentioned). I was really upset when we lost Hodkinson and I want to make other teams feel that way about their players. Other clubs were in for Pearce. Lets say the salary cap did go down to 6m. All that changes is Pearce being on 1m goes to ~600k (and this is across the league for every player). Players recruited in the future will be in accordance to the new salary cap.
