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What kind of car are we talking about here?

I think given everything I'd be comfortable with $650k, but damn it could bite us.
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My Mazda Astina, I'm about to sell it but would be happy to donate it to the club if it meant keeping Andrew for 450k.
 
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Cool.

Ok Deano, please park the car in the Leagues Club car park before lunch. We don't want this to fall through due to difficulties with 3rd party payments. Cheers.
 
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His bonuses in relation to rep footy etc. He is earning 500k already
 
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When his wife made the decision, didn't he say he no longer wanted to be a sharkie.Funny how he hurt his wrist this weekend and the cameras stayed glued on him while he was getting wrapped.Do they still have test for broken toys before they buy?
 
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Cool.

Ok Deano, please park the car in the Leagues Club car park before lunch. We don't want this to fall through due to difficulties with 3rd party payments. Cheers.
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I'd need confirmation from the club that he won't get more than 450k first haha.
 
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This is all Cronulla's fault of course...

The Sharks should have educated Andrew Fifita on how to handle himself publicly

Paul Kent The Daily Telegraph March 31, 2014


MOTIVATED by hate mail from trolls on Twitter, Andrew Fifita tried to be everyone’s friend last week. After walking away from Cronulla he tried to appease Sharks fans by saying that his heart was still in Cronulla.

After rejecting a start with the NSW Waratahs he tried to placate rugby fans by saying he loved the sport and planned to finish his career in the game.

He thought he already had the Bulldogs market cornered, having signed a four-year deal there beginning next year.
So the interview finished, everybody is happy, right?

Fifita couldn’t have been more wrong.

The Sharks should have better educated him on how to handle himself publicly.

They know he is immature and prone to silly statements.

Paul Gallen told Triple M on Saturday that Fifita’s comments were silly. He said that this week some of the older players like himself and Luke Lewis would pull Fifita aside and talk to him about saying dumb things in public.

Unfortunately, by then it was already too late. The Bulldogs had seen enough, and who could blame them?

Yesterday, the hammer dropped.

Fifita is now the second *casualty of Twitter trolls after Josh Dugan cost himself a contract with Brisbane last year, when he told one jerk to “end himself”. You could build a hospital wing with the money they blew.

And yet on top of the personal cost there is a greater cost here. Once again, rugby league looks foolish.

A hundred black headlines were created through Fifita’s $850,000-a-year deal with the Bulldogs. It gave the game a great migraine as the battling Sharks took another blow.

Just as the game has nursed its way through those headlines, more damage, all we ask is could it have been avoided?

Compare that to Buddy Franklin’s switch from Hawthorn to the Swans.

Franklin agreed to join the Swans in January last year, more than 10 months before the first whiff became public. The secret was kept an entire season for, as Franklin and the Swans knew, there was no benefit in releasing it earlier.

All it would do is tip off GWS, who were gearing to make a play for him when the AFL trade window opened, as well as give Hawthorn fair warning about what they were up against to keep him. And even though GWS were circling, Hawks fans knew nothing was confirmed, as nothing could be done until the trade window opened.

Their disappointment when Franklin left was the natural disappointment of any fan, but the timing couldn’t have been more perfect from the AFL’s point of view. The season was over, so no season was disrupted, no fans handed in their Buddy jerseys.

And the secret didn’t begin to leak until the AFL slowly, deliciously, slow-dripped the details to dominate media coverage in NRL grand final week. That included the prime real estate, the back page.

There was a time when the NRL resisted ideas like trade windows. It believed naturally breaking news was all good grist, part of the daily NRL conversation. But fans have grown tired of being disappointed, increasingly turned off by players signing away their futures with more than a year to run on contracts, of their season’s being sideswiped by sudden news. There are lessons on every level here.
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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...himself-publicly/story-fni3fh9n-1226870236716

It is nothing like the Dugan situation you dense "kent".
 
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Paul Kent has always been a dribbler. There are very few media people I take notice of in the Rugby League world.
 
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Kent has little man syndrome (apologies to all those "little" sharks fans out there). Classic case of a man with vertical challenges to try and make himself big. I actually used to think Kent was OK in the early days. But he is nothing more than journalistic scum. And that's putting it nicely.

They say that they write these things to sell more papers. Maybe I'm naive but don't you need to actually buy the paper first to read the stories? So how can people be motivated to buy the paper to read a scandal when they haven't got the paper yet to read the story? Hang on, does that make sense what I've said. Maybe I'm dribbling too HB. :)

My point is don't people buy the paper as a rule each day? Usually your morning routine might be to get up, have breakfast, read the paper that you've bought or have delivered. Do you suddenly get up one morning and think, "I wonder what **** they've written about the Sharks today? I know, let's buy a paper and find out!" Please tell me there aren't people in the world like that.

The media are so precious sometimes. They claim that they report on stories because they are in the public interest and we have a right to know. Balderdash. I reckon more than 90% of stuff they write is made up and nowhere near in the public interest.
 
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Kent has been whinging about the media not gettign enough out of the players i.e.. interviews, dressing room etc

Mason went on 360 the other day and grilled him about that whinging saying the players don't feel up to it or comfortable when they know if they say one thing out of context or in the wrong way they get hammered and taken to town by the papers.

He makes a very strong point.

Its exactly what has happened to fifita.
 
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sharkyboy said:
Kent has been whinging about the media not gettign enough out of the players i.e.. interviews, dressing room etc

Mason went on 360 the other day and grilled him about that whinging saying the players don't feel up to it or comfortable when they know if they say one thing out of context or in the wrong way they get hammered and taken to town by the papers.

He makes a very strong point.

Its exactly what has happened to fifita.
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I love big Willie.
 
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