Hopefully it shouldn’t as Raiders will still be paying some of his salary.If his signing will cost us anyone like Mitchell, Manu, Radradra or Fifita then we're f..king crazy and Pay is letting his friendship with Stuart spoil our team. Would rather pay an extra 200K for Manu or even an extra 400K for Mitchell and they're both young and fit. Radradra is probably out of our price now. If we could get Mitchell OR Manu AND David Fifita AND Leilua then that would be okay.
After doing those things with us...Pay'd have him in CCup....where's the value for the club? Dumb move if true cos not many at all could see him changing his whole playing style and work ethic.Anyone that watches NRL would know Leilua is hot & cold and very inconsistent & prone to regular brain explosion plays..
In some ways He cost the Raiders the GF with 2 big errors.. if he passed to Rapana 1 second earlier than he did Rapana scores and he was lazy at marker that the Rorter$ exploited to make the break & score the winning try..
Sure he can do some good things but that above is typical Leilua play..
Averillo, and Schoup as well...fast track them if possible.Value should go down for his grand final effort.. I would prefer we persist with with our youth policy. Harper went well in his nrl start. We have 2 more good centre prospects. Harper n hoppa, Smith is also a fill in chance.
Anyone else feel like this was a sneaky dig at the Rorters?"For me it's about looking after my family, doing what's best for them," Leilua said. "If they want us to leave, I'll have to settle something there. I will probably miss the boys and the club the most, the fans, if I do leave. You have to understand it's a business, how it works. You can't keep the best team always together, that's why Melbourne always let go of their players when they are performing at the club. That's the way it goes."
I am concered about this as well. He looked so out of shape during the finals series.I honestly don't think this is a good value for money signing but I get the feeling it's going to happen.
I hope it's not at the expense of the lower grade players, although they are unproven I think some of them will turn out to be good players.
No
GF showed he is more rocks then diamonds
Off the field he won’t be a good image for the club (I live in canberra)
I would rather develop then spend money on someone who won’t be around for a long time.
Raiders fans dont want him to leaveThe only players we are buying are the ones not wanted by their current club!