If you were / if you ARE a betting man who would you bet $20 on to be the last 3 of our roster for 2021 ? (not 2022 remember).
We can check later if anyone gets all 3 right.
I'll go
1. Matt Burton
2. Brett Naden
3. Brandon Smith
Benji Marshall is out you would think. He's mad if he doesn't accept the 700K offer to go to the UK. I don't know if we were interested in him but if we were we should go even harder for Burton early now. Panthers CEO mentioned "compensation". It's only dollars outside the cap you would think (not players). I don't know why it's not done already. Hill said recently if the Panthers want to talk they should "contact him". Hope he's not sitting back waiting for the phone to ring. Get it done already. At what price though ? I'm sure the Panthers want to be compensated on "great potential" whereas we want to pay for a typical average fresh reserve.
Naden - seems the Panthers didn't really want him. The rehab issue might have scared us off though (and the Panthers). I think Barrett would take a risk on him. We need a replacement for Reimis at least.
Hopefully someone has a few inside tips (mine have dried up unfortunately)
For 2022 I think we'll get either JAC or Crichton (or both hopefully) and Lenui