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Does anyone know if there has been a reported number of what Tigers were looking at offering him?
Madge offered him immunity from whipping boy status on the Tigers forum for length of his stay
But when Nikora found out it was only valid while Madge remained head coach of the tigers he decided to stay at the Sharks and just pull his finger out on the field instead!
I hope there's a few boys who are looking to take a pay cut to stay. Their success is going to start driving up demand and prices.
Still, we have Fifita money waiting to be unlocked (surely we don't resign him*), so hopefully there's enough to spread around and keep everyone happy enough.
*love him, big dog, glad he's playing well, #leaveasalegend
if you go to a bad club with the short term view of earning more coin it often hurts their wallet a few years down the track when they are off contract, out of form, not getting selected for rep teams anymore and coming from a crap system.
Some players names are big enough or have enough previous reputation to overcome that and still demand a big contract at another club or the really good players manage to still have played well at the bad club but many players suffer for it
if your career is coming to a close and it's your last chance to score a good contract sure go for it - that isn't the case with Nikora, BHU ect they are arguably in their prime
having said all that a players career could end at any moment from a serious injury so there's that to consider
You wanna win the comp but as soon as you do pretty much everyone’s value in the 1-17 goes up, the trick is, when you win the comp you wanna hope there all locked in for another 2 yrs
I've never been a fan of how a team is punished for it's success but a club that has it together enough to win a comp usually has good enough management of their salary cap and front office to handle it's future roster post winning a comp.
Thinking Panthers, Storm, Roosters here they just replace quality players with new quality players / bring through the young talent and get on with things and don't let their standards or competitiveness drop
We were still a strong team post 2016 but I dunno if Flanno started to cut corners opening the wallet for big name expensive players (which we had no problems attracting) or was he just that confident he could make them work in our squad
Yes you have to spend the cap regardless but I think our team balance cap wise started to go in a bad direction instead of being more balanced like it had been in 2016 across the park. We now had multiple injury prone and incosistent form type players in key positions on $800k + the likes of Duges, Mozza, SJ
Another way to look at it though is did Flanno have other options or was his hand forced ?
2017 was a hangover year, we just couldn't get ourselves up for it although the attitudes of some of our 2016 alumni feel off a cliff - Prior, Bird, Maloney ect
2018 we had a strong year but from 2019 after losing Luke Lewis and Flanno the hard working professional gritty Cronulla style evaporated and the toxicity of certain players started to bleed through
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