Cos some people are still mesmerised by the memory of his sideway running and decided its a good idea to go sideway with our recruitment too.
Can you tell me what games he’s won for us by himself? I can only think of 1 or 2 where he was the difference for us. Money poorly spent
Don't forget his best attribute: the trip
Of course it's money poorly spent but he's elite tier when he can play and actually get on the ball and as a result was averaging as many try contributions himself as the entire team.
Whats the best site to view these stats?
Foxsports Stats is probably the most detailed you’ll find without paying for them.
All good Teddy, it's a democracy after all.
Cogger isn't the liability people make him out to be. As for Wakeham, if Soward can make a fist of NRL with his size I think Wakeham can handle it also.
He gets us playing over the advantage line that's the key attribute he brings imo. Not many halfs we have have shown they can do that. Cogger was doing it but got dropped for Lewis
Foxsports had them but they wipe them at the start of every season.
They both defend like typical halves and get their body in front you can't ask for much more then that.
Yep that's exactly right, if they aren't arm grabbing then I can't fault them. Always putting his body Infront and chasing to cover centres errors aswell.
I can't see it happening either, but it's not completely out of the question. It's simple maths, the Tuggers are reportedly contracted to pay Grub $850k a season for the next 2 seasons (ignoring any Cap reduction effects). If they can offload him and only pay $400k, to the team getting him, it frees up $450k in Cap space for them. If they have a bit left over already in their Cap it might be enough to get whoever it is that they want. Of course paying nothing to the team getting him is a better deal for them, but realistically who's going to pay $850k? So the answer as to how much they contribute lies somewhere between nothing and $850k, and the bargaining continues.
So it may come down to who is the bigger fool...and fools and their money are soon parted... I know it was a previous administration at Concord, but they offered Grub the deal of a lifetime and the value was always questionable. In my view they can live with it, just as we’ve had to live with Foz and his bang for buck.
If someone was willing to contribute enough for Foran I'd like to think we would of moved him on too (this was rumoured either last year or the year before). We just weren't going to find anyone willing to pay ~700k to get Foran (with us paying ~500k, what he's probably worth). Not really sure how much it would of helped us either tbh. It just looks like we're trying to get top players for value (good luck).
Value in recent seasons, yes - we had no choice. Next year, no - but we won’t know the outcome of that until after 30 June. Grub and Foz are both examples of risks clubs take on long and expensive contracts. I’m more in favour of doing two years at a time and pay upgrades when they are earned. Too much can go wrong otherwise as we’ve seen. Of course you also risk losing players with a policy like that - what hurts more?
I agree, but offering someone three years instead of two can help with recruitment (someone like Cotric for e.g. I wouldn't have a problem doing it with). We definitely don't want to put injury prone players on big contracts for three years tho.
Yep. The club is clearly OK with 3 years where they believe they’ll get value: reliability, character etc - DWZ, Thompson, Jackson, Stimson as recent examples.