Benji? Yes or no?

[CrazyMatt]

Yes but your yearly wage would carry on until you retire. If you stay within that job.

League players careers aren't that long. And unless they set themselves up with degree etc it may be harder to gain suitable employment.

Also, let's say you are on a 50k a year wage. You leave for more coin and a new challenge, but that doesn't work out. So you want to go back to the former industry, then you have 2 offers, 1 offering considerably more money per year than the other... Seriously, which would you take?

Playing football opens plenty of lucrative doors post career because of your profile, like coaching and media. I don't buy the short career arguement. Also the players earn enough money during their careers to either invest in something or get the education they need to get themselves a good trade. Just need to be smart with their money.

Of course I would take the higher wage. But I didn't earn the sort of money Benji did while he was at the Tigers, that's my point. Two completely different circumstances.

I'm not naive, I know this is what the game has turned into, doesn't mean I have to agree with it.

 

[A.Snowden]

Well you have your fantastic super league to thank for that. Ridiculous amounts of money thrown around to players. Well above the time

 

[Western Sharkie]

But didn't we up our offer (more than the reported queens $1.1 offer) in the end?

 

[Western Sharkie]

Point is, if the reported offers are true, then Bunji never wanted to come to us unless it was his only option!

 

[SharksMichael]

seriously benji.. you get to choose between the sharks or dragons... its like choosing tracey grimshaw when you could have had miranda kerr, silly silly boy!!!

We may see ourselves as Miranda Kerr but Tracy Grimshaw has won a premiership! Now that is sentence I never thought I'd type...

 

[JimBob]

So who did the Dragons have to release?

It'll be complete bull**** if the NRL gave them an exemption.

 

[thedarkshark]

mods...can we now close this thread?

 

[egg]

Love to see A Fifita run over the top of him numerous times , when we play the Dragqueens in June.

PS : Please leave this thread open until we see which player/s Dragons offloaded to sign Benchi

 

[Catapultluch]

mods...can we now close this thread?

Yes Please!!!!!!!

 

[Cesare6t9]

Good on benchy joining a team where he is in the spotlight. Ignorant ****