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Does anyone know if there has been a reported number of what Tigers were looking at offering him?

Madge offered him immunity from whipping boy status on the Tigers forum for length of his stay

But when Nikora found out it was only valid while Madge remained head coach of the tigers he decided to stay at the Sharks and just pull his finger out on the field instead!

I hope there's a few boys who are looking to take a pay cut to stay. Their success is going to start driving up demand and prices.
Still, we have Fifita money waiting to be unlocked (surely we don't resign him*), so hopefully there's enough to spread around and keep everyone happy enough.

*love him, big dog, glad he's playing well, #leaveasalegend

if you go to a bad club with the short term view of earning more coin it often hurts their wallet a few years down the track when they are off contract, out of form, not getting selected for rep teams anymore and coming from a crap system.

Some players names are big enough or have enough previous reputation to overcome that and still demand a big contract at another club or the really good players manage to still have played well at the bad club but many players suffer for it

if your career is coming to a close and it's your last chance to score a good contract sure go for it - that isn't the case with Nikora, BHU ect they are arguably in their prime

having said all that a players career could end at any moment from a serious injury so there's that to consider


You wanna win the comp but as soon as you do pretty much everyone’s value in the 1-17 goes up, the trick is, when you win the comp you wanna hope there all locked in for another 2 yrs

I've never been a fan of how a team is punished for it's success but a club that has it together enough to win a comp usually has good enough management of their salary cap and front office to handle it's future roster post winning a comp.

Thinking Panthers, Storm, Roosters here they just replace quality players with new quality players / bring through the young talent and get on with things and don't let their standards or competitiveness drop

We were still a strong team post 2016 but I dunno if Flanno started to cut corners opening the wallet for big name expensive players (which we had no problems attracting) or was he just that confident he could make them work in our squad

Yes you have to spend the cap regardless but I think our team balance cap wise started to go in a bad direction instead of being more balanced like it had been in 2016 across the park. We now had multiple injury prone and incosistent form type players in key positions on $800k + the likes of Duges, Mozza, SJ

Another way to look at it though is did Flanno have other options or was his hand forced ?

2017 was a hangover year, we just couldn't get ourselves up for it although the attitudes of some of our 2016 alumni feel off a cliff - Prior, Bird, Maloney ect

2018 we had a strong year but from 2019 after losing Luke Lewis and Flanno the hard working professional gritty Cronulla style evaporated and the toxicity of certain players started to bleed through
 
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Dugan had his weird stay down a lot two but were any of those players really known as injury prone before coming to us?
Arguably Dugan but a lot of it wasn’t true injuries
 

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Haven't remember too that Flannos hand was forced with a couple of players. Barba drugs, Holmes NFL comes to mind.

This resulted in having to quickly find replacements such as SJ and Dugan (if my memory serves me correctly).
 

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Interesting correction because he certainly didn’t ‘have to’

But you’re right many of these were reactions to other roster moves —throw in Moylan/Maloney

Dugan more Burd related than Barba.

But we definitely went away from what had been working
 

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Interesting correction because he certainly didn’t ‘have to’

But you’re right many of these were reactions to other roster moves —throw in Moylan/Maloney

Dugan more Burd related than Barba.

But we definitely went away from what had been working
Fair call. Reaction is a better phrase of wording.
 

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actually missed this bloke tonight, our second row was a bit disappointing though they tried hard

he's still not worth getting into a bidding war over though with Wade, Tieg around and whatever is on the open market. I trust the figure put forward by the Sharks is fair and meets the needs of the Sharks cap

it's just that Nikora has been seduced by Tigers currency setting unrealistic expectations
 

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They lose both their starting edges. His manager smart to milk them for all they are worth… and smarter to stick with sharks if we decide to get close
 

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Nikora playing consistently at what we saw last week I'd value around $525-625k. Bit less to stay, bit more to move for a struggler.
 

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Nikora playing consistently at what we saw last week I'd value around $525-625k. Bit less to stay, bit more to move for a struggler.
Don’t see how he is worth that much. He isn’t that far better then a slew of other second rowers worth 250k. If they are offering more then 500k hoping we miss out.
 

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He really isnt very involved in comparison to other big dollar second rowers who are involved consistently in both attack and defence
 

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People have definitely undervalued his defense. It's incredible

Can't value a second rower on just how many linebreaks he makes or tries he scores
 

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Don’t see how he is worth that much. He isn’t that far better then a slew of other second rowers worth 250k. If they are offering more then 500k hoping we miss out.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Tigers offer is around $600k . Is he worth that to us or several other clubs? Most would definitely say no.

But his form in a couple games this year has earnt him in the top 3 performers on the field, a young NZ international rep, probably expecting his best footy to come, Tigers have lost both starting back rowers one was on big money and Tigers can’t recruit anyone these days.

I’m just guessing these numbers but if Bird wants $550k to stay at the Dragons and the best back rowers on upwards of $800k-$1m then I think Tigers offer for Nikora would have to be close to starting at $600k.
We might be the ones at that $500k mark if we want him to stay.
 
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