News Harawira-Naera reportedly released

[Nasheed]

Do you know that a brick layer earns 50% more than a degree qualified engineer with 20 years experience?

Whee can I apply?

 

[JayBee]

If this is indeed true... who are we getting in return? What player are we landing mid-season to accommodate this?

So help me God if it is no one .... i'm going to write a letter!

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

At least in Canberra schools are more isolated for him

 

[Kempsey Dog]

Seriously punishing players for indiscretions by clubs is becoming a joke and only benefits other clubs.

All player indiscretions should be handled directly by the NRL integrity unit to stop this bullshit happening again

But then how would Souffs be able to conduct their own corrupt independent investigations

 

[Chris Harding]

If the dogs let him go then seriously they are pathetic!

No point keeping him if he doesn't want to commit to the club. We'd just be tying up good money on a waste of space - and we have enough of them already.

 

[TwinTurbo]

Exactly . We get zero benefit by releasing him this year . Zero zero fuckin zero

We do actually get something, we free up his Cap space, say, $300k to $400K and this year that is our single biggest problem. So now we have until 3 August to spend that freed up cap space. The bonus is we can spend that $300k to $400K on a player for 6 months so it's effectively an $800k per year player, or 2 x $400k players etc.

Obviously having Cap space is only worth something if we can recruit the player/s, but there are a few pommies with itchy feet looking for an NRL gig. And we can offer them the rest of the year plus a 3 year contract , which worked for securing Thompson.


Go Dogs

 

[maroondog72]

Its absurd!

Tallis sat out a year at the Dragons and coped it on the chin, yet this clown is kicking stones for a monumental fuck up he created.

Goes to show how today's generation is "very special" and soft as butter

that’s why the poms do so well here most of them still have some integrity

 

[TwinTurbo]

Do you know that a brick layer earns 50% more than a degree qualified engineer with 20 years experience?

Yes I do, but they don't have very long working lives and they are often physically farked at an early age.

Go Dogs

 

[Dingo]

He never really liked the club and didn't want to be here. Plus he's a kiddie fiddler so fuck him we can get someone better.

 

[Kempsey Dog]

Interestingly Corey has actually unfollowed the raiders on his instagram and still follows the bulldogs, however I’m not sure that means anything.

Everyone got wind of it before an official announcement. So I'd say his manager got on the blower and told him to change it to salvage some rep.

 

[Howie B]

We do actually get something, we free up his Cap space, say, $300k to $400K and this year that is our single biggest problem. So now we have until 3 August to spend that freed up cap space. The bonus is we can spend that $300k to $400K on a player for 6 months so it's effectively an $800k per year player, or 2 x $400k players etc.

Obviously having Cap space is only worth something if we can recruit the player/s, but there are a few pommies with itchy feet looking for an NRL gig. And we can offer them the rest of the year plus a 3 year contract , which worked for securing Thompson.


Go Dogs

No no no

Who are we going to get of similar ability within the next 2 weeks ????

Players get paid from November 1 so it’s not $400k at all . More like $100k

Unless there was a player swap we got fucked (again)

Not sure how you can’t see that

 

[Donkey Slayer]

Taumalolo and Fifita or Taumalolo and TPJ haha

I cant take anymore elliot

 

[Sword]

End of the day, if he stayed his attitude would weigh on the the playing group. He fucked up, we fucked him, he'll likely fuck us ...

Wait, where am I going with this??

 

[CrittaMagic69]

The Raiders are also signing the young Brisbane backrower (starts with B?) on load for the rest of the season.

 

[Gubanaculum]

If this is indeed true... who are we getting in return? What player are we landing mid-season to accommodate this?

So help me God if it is no one .... i'm going to write a letter!

NO NO not the letter somebody please stop him!!!!

 

[TwinTurbo]

No no no
Who are we going to get of similar ability within the next 2 weeks ????
Players get paid from November 1 so it’s not $400k at all . More like $100k
Unless there was a player swap we got fucked (again)
Not sure how you can’t see that

No no no back.
From what I have heard Canbra are paying his full year's contract. Part of the deal releasing him immediately.

Go Dogs

 

[bulldogsmyte]

I think you may be missing the fact that a lawyer, doctor, accountant etc has ~40 years after they graduate to earn $big, an NRL player has maybe ~10 years after they "graduate". So they have to maximise their earnings for that short period of time, because after that the vast majority of them have nothing much to earn an income from. A %couple end up in the media somewhere, a %couple end up coaching, in administration etc and the rest may have used their "education" payments to actually set themselves up for a career after football. The 90% end up driving trucks, cleaning up garbage, laying bricks or digging ditches. I don't begrudge a professional sportsperson earning while they can, because it doesn't last that long.

Go Dogs

You're obviously not aware that this country has the highest labour cost of the developed world. That's why manufacturing is virtually dead in this country. Do you know why Toyota, Ford and Holden closed down? I left engineering 20 years ago because I saw the trend. A brick layer working full time earns 170k per year. My engineer friend was the Principal Engineer for the largest engineering firm in this country and he had to manage a team of 12 engineers including 3 PhD's and win tenders to bring money in for the company. He worked on multi billion dollar projects and his salary was less then 120k per year. You ignore the fact that rugby players of the past pre 1990 were earning order of magnitudes less than today's players even taking into account inflation and most of them had trade qualifications plumbers, sparky etc.
Most of them didn't behave like spoilt brats like today's NRL players and very few of them went around getting wasted or smashing guys in clubs, bars or bashing their wives/gf, molesting women like some very high profile players of today's era. There is NOTHING to stop today's players earning trade qualifications but too many of them spend their spare time on playstation and instagram. A large number of them are a bunch of lazy, big babies compared to the players of the 70's and 80's.

 

[Grechy21]

Fuck right off CHN!! Over rated clumsy ****

 

[yearofthedogs2018]

According to NRL.com, part of the deal will have him missing the match against us in Round 16.

 

[DogsOfWar1704]

Just put okunbor in the back row, that was his position before he randomly filled in on the wing. Runs hard, good speed could be a gun back rower