(Archived) THE RUMOUR MILL - Player Movement

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Tim Simona to make his boxing debut tomorrow night. And believes he’s paid his dues and is now ready for a NRL return.
 

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Hunt will be worth more then a minimum deal if he stays relatively injury free. Pele too if he ends up having his much anticipated breakout year.
If they do have break-out years, absolutely agree but was basing that thought on where they are currently situated in the squad.
Honestly hope to see them both on the bench for most of the year.

Picking our bench for next year is going to be a mission
 

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Depends at what age a junior is a junior
Personally think this is one area we can look at stealing an idea from the NBA with rookie scale contracts. When a junior graduates to the seniors they sign a four year rookie scale contract which depending on what they achieve in that first 4 years mandates what they can earn on their next contract. Would curb alot of these ridiculous contracts young players are having thrown at them.
 

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Personally think this is one area we can look at stealing an idea from the NBA with rookie scale contracts. When a junior graduates to the seniors they sign a four year rookie scale contract which depending on what they achieve in that first 4 years mandates what they can earn on their next contract. Would curb alot of these ridiculous contracts young players are having thrown at them.
yeh that only works as the rookie wage is more than what best player in the nrl recieves

imagine the knights got away with paying ponga 80k for 3 years? those rookie deals would have to start when they are what, 14? 15? and even then a talented 18 year old like suuli should be able to earn more
 

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yeh that only works as the rookie wage is more than what best player in the nrl recieves

imagine the knights got away with paying ponga 80k for 3 years? those rookie deals would have to start when they are what, 14? 15? and even then a talented 18 year old like suuli should be able to earn more
They wouldn't all be locked in on base wage, if you compare rookie contracts to the stars the rookies earn about 10% compared to them but they still don't all earn the same amount, the better rookies still get much higher amounts, also the whole point of a scale contract is that when you have someone like suuli and walker achieving things at young age that performance is rewarded and the contract scaled up to match it.
 

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Zac Cini who I was told signed with Newtown has now secured a spot with us.
Apparently has been training the house down and is right in the mix.
 
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