I can't see anyone taking him for more than 450k which means we'd have to pay ~400k.
Given he can't crack the team while Hunt and Talakai are out he is presumably a long way off.
Hard to say where to draw the line but I even feel like 400k per season (or even say 550k this year and 250k next year) could be worth it for the money that frees up on our books.
McInnes and contract extensions (Rudolf Talakai) aside if we covered 550k and 250k for Andrew that frees us 850k x 2 (Moylan and Dugan) and 600k x 2 (Fifita and Woods).
If we can extend Johnson for even 100k less that is 3 million or nearly a third of the cap we have to spend for next season. We can go full New England Patriots.
Obviously some of that money will be spent in some other retentions and contract upgrades but it is a huge amount of spending power to go after the players we want.
This is kind of the sad eventuality I've been dreading over last couple of years where we want ****ing Andrew Fifita to go to the Dragons or he just wallows in reserve grade because his knee is so cooked.
Hence why over last couple seasons I've been pushing for him to ideally retire or go to england sooner rather than later. I didn't want him to not be able to keep playing for us but I just couldn't see him making it through his contract.