You are dead right. There are a rurally very few things with a value not determined by what someone is prepared to pay.
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stormshark
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mmmm,what someone pays is not necessarily, what the "Market value" is.Anyway we move on, time will tell, wish him the best whilst with us, wish him not, when not.
Bundy Shark
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Summed up nicely Storm, he has my loyalty till his last game for us, then the media can bag the crap out of him after that.
If the media or other people think he was weak for dropping us for the little extra he's getting from the dogs or that we in all likelihood gave his brother a gig just to keep him happy who in return we would have hoped that would be looked upon favourably or not forgotten when it came time to re sign with us who am I to disagree with that.
Sharkii Fr3ak
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So now the Bulldogs are saying that Fifita was offered between 500-600k please ....
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Whatever you do, don't win a Carney Jersey
BlackWhiteBlue
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the Jigsaw curse!
But seriously, it sounds like Fifita has let the money that he hasnt even got yet go to his head. The Sharks didnt think he was worth 850,000? Read the Sharks Forever forum Fifita, or even the Dogs forums…..nobody except for Raelene Castle thing you are worth that much.
If i had a game hanging in the balance, i would want Cooper Cronk or Greg Inglis in my team before i had Fifita.
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YOU know the story of LeBron James, right? He’s the American basketball star who switched from the perennially hapless Cleveland Cavaliers to the Miami Heat because, as he said in the grotesque 75 minute national TV special entitled The Decision:
“I’m going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat. I feel like it’s going to give me the best opportunity to win and to win for multiple years, and not only just to win in the regular season or just to win five games in a row… I want to be able to win championships.”
It was the day loyalty officially died in sport. The day we were reminded there is no “I” in team but there sure as hell is the word “me”.
Me, me, me, me, me
Something similar happened in rugby league this week, with the midweek announcement by rugby league superstar Andrew Fifita that he would switch from the Sharks to the Bulldogs in 2015.
Players move all the time, we know that. Sometimes for money, sometimes because they need a new challenge and sometimes, as was the case with the AFL’s Gary Ablett, for both.
It’s no different in the professional world beyond sport. If you or I were offered an extra $150,000 to change workplaces, we’d do it without blinking.
But this Fifita thing had a LeBron whiff to it. It smelled like a guy thinking not just of his financial future, but his sporting future too.
The Bulldogs offered Fifita a whopping $850,000 a year to leave his beachside club and play in Sydney’s rugby league and geographical heartland. The best the Sharks could table was said to be in the neighbourhood of $700,000.
For those not well-versed in rugby league salaries, this is huge - especially because the big bucks are usually reserved for creative playmakers, not human battering rams like Fifita, who plays in a position with a much shorter shelf life.
Good luck to 24-year-old Fifita, a former housing commission kid who can now afford some rather more upmarket housing. He seems a likeable, genuine, disciplined guy. Plenty of his mates have gone the other way in life.
All the same, Fifita appears to have done a LeBron. Not with the fanfare and certainly not with the presumptuousness and ego, but the subtext is the same.
In short, Fifita has made it clear he wants to go somewhere he can win.
No less a respected rugby league figure than Peter Sterling said the following in today’s Daily Telegraph:
“The money difference between the two offers apparently wasn’t that much so I can only assume the Bulldogs offered more stability and you have to wonder if he felt he had a better chance to win a premiership.”
Much has been made of the fact Fifita broke down when telling his teammates of his intention to leave. Perhaps a little too much. The news was broken in a private moment, yet somehow we’ve all been informed just how incredibly cut up Fifita was in that moment.
If Fifita’s feeling cut up, the Sharks players must be feeling plain old cut.
Here’s a guy in whom the club invested after his previous club, the Tigers, effectively lost patience with him. Here’s a guy who rose to a Blues jersey and a green-and gold jersey while at the Sharks.
And now here’s a guy who no longer wants to play for that club. That might well be a smart move, given Cronulla has never won a premiership and – despite boasting two genuine current superstars in Todd Carney and Paul Gallen in its squad – appearing to lack the depth to seriously challenge this year.
And that’s not to mention the havoc further ASADA revelations could wreak on this already drug-tainted club.
Again, this is not to bag Fifita. But if you boil this thing down, you can easily read it as the big guy saying, ‘Sorry fellas, youse just aren’t good enough for me anymore’.
Just like Lebron said to the Cavs.
As stated though, you or I would no doubt do the same.
http://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/sha...-1226854133118
YOU know the story of LeBron James, right? He’s the American basketball star who switched from the perennially hapless Cleveland Cavaliers to the Miami Heat because, as he said in the grotesque 75 minute national TV special entitled The Decision:
“I’m going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat. I feel like it’s going to give me the best opportunity to win and to win for multiple years, and not only just to win in the regular season or just to win five games in a row… I want to be able to win championships.”
It was the day loyalty officially died in sport. The day we were reminded there is no “I” in team but there sure as hell is the word “me”.
Me, me, me, me, me
Something similar happened in rugby league this week, with the midweek announcement by rugby league superstar Andrew Fifita that he would switch from the Sharks to the Bulldogs in 2015.
Players move all the time, we know that. Sometimes for money, sometimes because they need a new challenge and sometimes, as was the case with the AFL’s Gary Ablett, for both.
It’s no different in the professional world beyond sport. If you or I were offered an extra $150,000 to change workplaces, we’d do it without blinking.
But this Fifita thing had a LeBron whiff to it. It smelled like a guy thinking not just of his financial future, but his sporting future too.
The Bulldogs offered Fifita a whopping $850,000 a year to leave his beachside club and play in Sydney’s rugby league and geographical heartland. The best the Sharks could table was said to be in the neighbourhood of $700,000.
For those not well-versed in rugby league salaries, this is huge - especially because the big bucks are usually reserved for creative playmakers, not human battering rams like Fifita, who plays in a position with a much shorter shelf life.
Good luck to 24-year-old Fifita, a former housing commission kid who can now afford some rather more upmarket housing. He seems a likeable, genuine, disciplined guy. Plenty of his mates have gone the other way in life.
All the same, Fifita appears to have done a LeBron. Not with the fanfare and certainly not with the presumptuousness and ego, but the subtext is the same.
In short, Fifita has made it clear he wants to go somewhere he can win.
No less a respected rugby league figure than Peter Sterling said the following in today’s Daily Telegraph:
“The money difference between the two offers apparently wasn’t that much so I can only assume the Bulldogs offered more stability and you have to wonder if he felt he had a better chance to win a premiership.”
Much has been made of the fact Fifita broke down when telling his teammates of his intention to leave. Perhaps a little too much. The news was broken in a private moment, yet somehow we’ve all been informed just how incredibly cut up Fifita was in that moment.
If Fifita’s feeling cut up, the Sharks players must be feeling plain old cut.
Here’s a guy in whom the club invested after his previous club, the Tigers, effectively lost patience with him. Here’s a guy who rose to a Blues jersey and a green-and gold jersey while at the Sharks.
And now here’s a guy who no longer wants to play for that club. That might well be a smart move, given Cronulla has never won a premiership and – despite boasting two genuine current superstars in Todd Carney and Paul Gallen in its squad – appearing to lack the depth to seriously challenge this year.
And that’s not to mention the havoc further ASADA revelations could wreak on this already drug-tainted club.
Again, this is not to bag Fifita. But if you boil this thing down, you can easily read it as the big guy saying, ‘Sorry fellas, youse just aren’t good enough for me anymore’.
Just like Lebron said to the Cavs.
As stated though, you or I would no doubt do the same.
http://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/sha...-1226854133118
CrazyMatt
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Nah Lebron is the prince. There's only one king and his name is Jordan.
BlackWhiteBlue
Jaws
The difference is in the NBA teams are built around a player. Kobe, Lebron, jordan, carmelo. They get support players to win championships. Carmelo aint getting that so will bail. The difference is.....the players are bigger than their teams. Thats fact. U take lebron away or durant......team dies
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Time to make a new sig pic with the flash gal and carney also hear we're linked to kasiano
sharkboy18
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Fifita was just being interviewed on the Footy show & he said that his wife told him to join the Bulldogs lol
Sharkii Fr3ak
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haha! Love Beau Ryan least he gave it to him about the $$$
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yea gave him heaps "4 years at 850k and 5th year Chinese restraunt at doggies leaguies"
Bizzy029
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They call him Burrito.. now he is joining the doggies can we call him Kebab??? Too soon?