Fifita is only 19. He's definitely a class above Stimson and Britt and will be for a long time. Don't want to see Parra get him. Would rather him than Jake Turbo for a million a season. As Jake and Tom apparently aren't interested in even talking to us I think for our rebuild we should focus on 3 players. Api Koroisau, Latrell Mitchell and Fifita and forget about Jesse Ramien. I'm a bit concerned about Ramien's attitude anyway. He reportedly put his price up. If he wanted to play for the Dogs you would think he would have already signed by now. If we got all this money to spend for 2021 we might as well get one of the very best forwards and backs of the NRL plus the best available long needed hooker. This would give us so much added attacking strike power in both the forwards and backs - potential line breaks from nothing. As all the other decent hooker options are already signed Koroisau is the best option left available. According to recent media reports looks like we could get Koroisau for 500-600K, Mitchell for 900 - $1m and Fifita for 900 - $1m. I'd also keep Foran if he gets through more games next year than he misses at somewhere around 600-700K and definitely re-sign DWZ at whatever his market value is at the time (probably around 500-600K) Looks like we have a good couple of young centres coming through (one of them to replace Hopa in near future) so whatever is left over I'd throw it at the best next up and coming young five eight on the market to replace Foran in near future.
Imagine our 2021 team looking something like this
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak
Nick Meaney
Latrell Mitchell
Will Hopoate
Reimis Smith
Kieran Foran
Lachlan Lewis / Jack Cogger / Brandon Wakeham
Dylan Napa
Api Koroisau
Aiden Tolman
CHN
Josh Jackson
David Fifita
RESERVES
Joe Stimson
Renouf Toomoga
RFM
Jesse Sue / Britt / Ogden / JMK
Surplus: Michael Lichaa, Adam Elliott, Marcela Montoya, Kerrod Holland - although might keep Holland as a low cost back up. Also can we teach Okunbur how to catch and defend by then as a back up winger.