Official May signs with Tigers

Tigers and Dragons have more cap than us ?. Don't think so. Gus said we were 700K under the cap this year plus we paid 900K to former players playing for other clubs. JAC freed another 550K. That's over 2.1M
 
bradtalo said:
Tigers and Dragons have more cap than us ?. Don't think so. Gus said we were 700K under the cap this year plus we paid 900K to former players playing for other clubs. JAC freed another 550K. That's over 2.1M
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Yep that's correct don't stress it
 
bradtalo said:
Tigers and Dragons have more cap than us ?. Don't think so. Gus said we were 700K under the cap this year plus we paid 900K to former players playing for other clubs. JAC freed another 550K. That's over 2.1M
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We're a better club and team compared to both those teams. If they want him you'd think they'd have to pay a significant difference to what we offer. I think he's worth 700k. Collins is on reportedly 650k at Rooster, I know he has rep and finals experience over May (also been doing it for a while), but May's shown more ability and was Rooster best middle last year (last year was his 1st full proper year in NRL too, and was still underutilised).
 
bradyk said:
We're a better club and team compared to both those teams. If they want him you'd think they'd have to pay a significant difference to what we offer. I think he's worth 700k. Collins is on reportedly 650k at Rooster, I know he has rep and finals experience over May (also been doing it for a while), but May's shown more ability and was Rooster best middle last year (last year was his 1st full proper year in NRL too, and was still underutilised).
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I agree with part of your post but not sure May was their best middle. Collins seems to be one of those players who just gets involved in everything. He’s a machine at club and origin. I guess you could argue it though. May still has plenty of potential whereas I don’t see Collins improving from where he’s at. Just my opinion.
 
Wonder what Robinson means when he says this..


“He has been a value add to our group and there are just some small bits there around how we want to play and also the longevity of Terrell."
 
bradyk said:
We're a better club and team compared to both those teams. If they want him you'd think they'd have to pay a significant difference to what we offer. I think he's worth 700k. Collins is on reportedly 650k at Rooster, I know he has rep and finals experience over May (also been doing it for a while), but May's shown more ability and was Rooster best middle last year (last year was his 1st full proper year in NRL too, and was still underutilised).
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I doubt Gus would be prepared to pay 700K for May though. More around 500-550K (first offer) as he was on at the Roosters reportedly. If the Tigers offer 700K I hope we're prepared to go to at least 600-650K as he'd make a bigger difference to us than the Tigers. More valuable to us
 
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LucasFitzo said:
Just listened to the Bye Round Podcast with Cheese and Jammer on the way to work.
Cheese mentioned Terell said Dogs or Eels, and made a joke to tell Jimmy he’ll go to the dogs because “that’s his guy”. How good haha, 17:12 in.
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The Tigers Culture Change, Kick Off Rule Changes & The Next Face Of The NRL!

The Bye Round With James Graham · Episode
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Jimmy is a legend. Forget his on-field leadership, the bloke goes in to bat for our best interests every single podcast and we might land May because of him lol
 
bradtalo said:
I doubt Gus would be prepared to pay 700K for May though. More around 500K as he was on at the Roosters reportedly. If the Tigers offer 700K I hope we're prepared to go to at least 600-650K as he'd make a bigger difference to us than the Tigers. More valuable to us
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The offers should be May = 3 years at 550k-600k per year... Thompson 4 years at 700k a year.. that's fair value..
as a back up maybe offer Oregon Kaufusi 3 years at 500k a year or Hazelton 3 years at 400k a year,..
 
Dogs4EVA-1 said:
The offers should be May = 3 years at 550k-600k per year... Thompson 4 years at 700k a year.. that's fair value..
as a back up maybe offer Oregon Kaufusi 3 years at 500k a year or Hazelton 3 years at 400k a year,..
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May has proven himself more than Thompson at this stage so will get the bigger offer. Bigger body too. May 650K then I hope we sign Paps at 900K + TPAs then Hazelton or Thompson if we have enough cap left over which I'm confident we will if we don't re-sign Sutton etc. Many players are off contract at the end of 2025.

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"May enjoyed a career-best season in 2024 and outperformed Waerea-Hargreaves and fellow Roosters props Lindsay Collins and Spencer Leniu in nearly every statistical category".
 
bradtalo said:
May has proven himself more than Thompson at this stage so will get the bigger offer. Bigger body too. May 650K then I hope we sign Paps at 900K + TPAs then Hazelton or Thompson if we have enough cap left over which I'm confident we will if we don't re-sign Sutton etc. Many players are off contract at the end of 2025.

Media report quote
"May enjoyed a career-best season in 2024 and outperformed Waerea-Hargreaves and fellow Roosters props Lindsay Collins and Spencer Leniu in nearly every statistical category".
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Agree with everything you say, the only push back with May is off-field.. Normally the Chooks tolerate bad characters or poor behavior with elite players like Jennings, Blake Fergo, Jake Friend (when he was young) etc.. if they help them win... they don't want to keep May... and hes an elite middle...
 
bradtalo said:
May has proven himself more than Thompson at this stage so will get the bigger offer. Bigger body too. May 650K then I hope we sign Paps at 900K + TPAs then Hazelton or Thompson if we have enough cap left over which I'm confident we will if we don't re-sign Sutton etc. Many players are off contract at the end of 2025.

Media report quote
"May enjoyed a career-best season in 2024 and outperformed Waerea-Hargreaves and fellow Roosters props Lindsay Collins and Spencer Leniu in nearly every statistical category".
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Agree with you mate
 
I fully expect a video of him doing lines to drop as soon as a club signs him, it's the roosters way.
 
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