(Archived) THE RUMOUR MILL - Player Movement

[Mr Wright]

Merrin - incredibly over rated.

Disagree. He's a very good workhorse backrower at club level when motivated. Seems to not play as well for NSW

 

[HaroldBishop]

I wouldn't say incredibly overrated. I'd have him at the Sharks but not for $800K.

My thoughts as well.

 

[hamsy44]

He got $750k according to the tele - that is more then I would pay for him.

 

[HaroldBishop]

He got $750k according to the tele - that is more then I would pay for him.

Same. Good luck to him although he may need to start looking for a new girlfriend.

 

[skeksis]

Vaughan should be a target imo

 

[Gow's Scissors]

Sorry Egg

From CB4

If there is anything we have learnt from this saga, player managers manipulate the media.

- Only a select few Sharks employee's knew if the DCE meeting. All have been cleared of informing the media.
- He left our meeting satisfied with our offer and our vision of the future.
- We were leading the race from there.
- A meeting was had between Forans management and DCE's management with the Eagles to discuss the future, with the outcome unsuccessful for Manly.
- DCE all but agreed to terms until the NRL stepped in.
- Despite Greenburgs tweets about not helping with recruitment, they have guaranteed his deal and informed him of the role he will play in marketing the GC area.
- His deal will more than double from outside income and promotion if he joins the GC which has left us and Manly furious.
- The medias report of our offer is completely wrong. We have offered him more than is reported but is a manipulation to get us to break our silence or offer more coin.
Does anyone think we would offer the best half in the game 50k more than Trent Merrin per annum?
- We have a third party backer who has now upped his investment after the NRL moved the goal posts to try and get him to the Shire but it seems to have been unsuccessful.
- The media also forgot to report our offer to Trent Merrin.

Don't believe the papers, the mole or the lurker. They are puppets for managers to get the best deal going.

 

[XGinga]

Vaughan should be a target imo

He is worth a look, only problem is i am pretty sure he is not off contract until 2017.

I think i remember him re-signing late last year.

 

[sharks2010]

Hahahaha **** the nrl if that's true, bunch of ****s

 

[Tiger Shark]

Sorry Egg

From CB4

If there is anything we have learnt from this saga, player managers manipulate the media.

- Only a select few Sharks employee's knew if the DCE meeting. All have been cleared of informing the media.
- He left our meeting satisfied with our offer and our vision of the future.
- We were leading the race from there.
- A meeting was had between Forans management and DCE's management with the Eagles to discuss the future, with the outcome unsuccessful for Manly.
- DCE all but agreed to terms until the NRL stepped in.
- Despite Greenburgs tweets about not helping with recruitment, they have guaranteed his deal and informed him of the role he will play in marketing the GC area.
- His deal will more than double from outside income and promotion if he joins the GC which has left us and Manly furious.
- The medias report of our offer is completely wrong. We have offered him more than is reported but is a manipulation to get us to break our silence or offer more coin.
Does anyone think we would offer the best half in the game 50k more than Trent Merrin per annum?
- We have a third party backer who has now upped his investment after the NRL moved the goal posts to try and get him to the Shire but it seems to have been unsuccessful.
- The media also forgot to report our offer to Trent Merrin.

Don't believe the papers, the mole or the lurker. They are puppets for managers to get the best deal going.

None of this comes as a surprise and seems to be what most of us have picked over the course of the week. I like that we have a third party backer who is willing to put his money where it matters, if we're unsuccessful with DCE hopefully he sticks around for another crack at a marquee player.

 

[HaroldBishop]

Sorry Egg

From CB4

If there is anything we have learnt from this saga, player managers manipulate the media.

- Only a select few Sharks employee's knew if the DCE meeting. All have been cleared of informing the media.
- He left our meeting satisfied with our offer and our vision of the future.
- We were leading the race from there.
- A meeting was had between Forans management and DCE's management with the Eagles to discuss the future, with the outcome unsuccessful for Manly.
- DCE all but agreed to terms until the NRL stepped in.
- Despite Greenburgs tweets about not helping with recruitment, they have guaranteed his deal and informed him of the role he will play in marketing the GC area.
- His deal will more than double from outside income and promotion if he joins the GC which has left us and Manly furious.
- The medias report of our offer is completely wrong. We have offered him more than is reported but is a manipulation to get us to break our silence or offer more coin.
Does anyone think we would offer the best half in the game 50k more than Trent Merrin per annum?
- We have a third party backer who has now upped his investment after the NRL moved the goal posts to try and get him to the Shire but it seems to have been unsuccessful.
- The media also forgot to report our offer to Trent Merrin.

Don't believe the papers, the mole or the lurker. They are puppets for managers to get the best deal going.

Learnt that a long time ago as I thought most people did?

 

[sharks2010]

Rothfield should do something useful for once and expose this ****

 

[hamsy44]

Remember putting on here that the DCE saga was going to get to bigger than the Todd saga. Won't surprise me if there are another couple of twist before the final curtain.

 

[HaroldBishop]

I tell you what, I've never had any bad feelings towards the GC in the past but if DCE ends up there and it's true what the NRL are doing I hope they get the spoon every year and their crowds drop to 5k per home game. **** 'em.

 

[sharks2010]

I tell you what, I've never had any bad feelings towards the GC in the past but if DCE ends up there and it's true what the NRL are doing I hope they get the spoon every year and their crowds drop to 5k per home game. **** 'em.

i blame the nrl, I'm furious, it's a out right joke, we were in a good position to land him until those pricks stepped in

 

[Bundy Shark]

Well I dislike Manly but he he's not @ the Sharks I hope he does some sort of backflip & stays @ the eagles, I'll be death riding the GC from now on.

 

[SharkShocked]

I tell you what, I've never had any bad feelings towards the GC in the past but if DCE ends up there and it's true what the NRL are doing I hope they get the spoon every year and their crowds drop to 5k per home game. **** 'em.

This will more than likely happen anyway, if history is any barometer, the club will indeed fold and the area will be lost.

 

[hamsy44]

I tell you what, I've never had any bad feelings towards the GC in the past but if DCE ends up there and it's true what the NRL are doing I hope they get the spoon every year and their crowds drop to 5k per home game. **** 'em.

I don't buy it. Telling DCE that your payments will be made is one thing. To go out against their own rules to source and guarantee additional funding - nah I don't think so, there is no such thing as a secret in rugby league Todd and Shaneo know this.

As if Slothfield and co at the daily tele would just accept that - Smith would know that they will dig till they get the story so they can heap **** on the NRL again.

That bad publicity would overshadow any good publicity DCE would be bring.

 

[SharkShocked]

Isn't GI on some sort of allowances for promotion of the game? Kicked in by the NRL?

Wouldn't surprise me what the NRL are capable of, within their own 'ruleset'

 

[Tiger Shark]

I don't buy it. Telling DCE that your payments will be made is one thing. To go out against their own rules to source and guarantee additional funding - nah I don't think so, there is no such thing as a secret in rugby league Todd and Shaneo know this.

As if Slothfield and co at the daily tele would just accept that - Smith would know that they will dig till they get the story so they can heap **** on the NRL again.

That bad publicity would overshadow any good publicity DCE would be bring.

Well one thing we can guarantee would be that Slothfield and Co would certainly dig deeper, they love to give the NRL a bad name and you're right it would hard for this to stay quiet.

 

[Gards]

Perhaps but this is the same NRL that allowed Gasnier to return to the dragons on a ridiculously back ended salary deal making a laugh stock of what the salary cap is suppose to do in the process
Then there's Bunji ect..