Come on. We will pay dearly? Really? He was a fringe first grader at Penrith, he was a fringe first grader with us and he will be behind Smith at the storm. He is and was a handy fill in during state of origin/injury but I don't think he'll be single handedly be winning games any time soon.
On the one hand people are blowing up when we lose a player like Romelo, then on the other hand people blow up when we lose young players and retain these fringe players. We can't keep them all.
Just trust Des and co