Official Valentine Holmes

[Capital_Shark]

If you can put a bloke like Val in your side you do. Figure the rest out later.

 

[HITMAN]

Like Stone Cold said, "Oh Hell no!"

I'm petty as ****, the only reason I'd resign him is to work him that hard in training to break his body down so the Cowboys get a Daddo 200b instead of a Lambo

 

[Thresher]

The Gasnier clause.

Ha ha, yep. Knowing how much the NRL love the Sharks, they'd probably expand our salary cap and give us a 5 mill bonus if we could lure him back after he's failed in a 'rival code'.

 

[HaroldBishop]

Ha ha, yep. Knowing how much the NRL love the Sharks, they'd probably expand our salary cap and give us a 5 mill bonus if we could lure him back after he's failed in a 'rival code'.

VAL OMG

 

[Western Sharkie]

Ha ha, yep. Knowing how much the NRL love the Sharks, they'd probably expand our salary cap and give us a 5 mill bonus if we could lure him back after he's failed in a 'rival code'.

And then breach us for being over the cap!

 

[Tiger Shark]

Would depend on a few things
- How is the team going as a whole
- How is SJ going with Chad, any reason to drop Chad ?
- How is Moylan going at FB
- How bad/good are our wingers going ?
- Is he going to be a Cowboy in 2020 ?

I'm leaning towards a no, but if we're in finals contention and we have the cap space then it would be silly to not strengthen your team more.

 

[vicsharkfan]

Don’t we still need to keep a roster spot open?

 

[Thresher]

Don’t we still need to keep a rooster spot open?

fixed lol

 

[vicsharkfan]

Cok a doodle do

 

[Gumby]

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...m/news-story/1d0dc62274ad8e79dd7e0a1c98f3c15c

Read the last bit.

 

[Western Sharkie]

Valentine Holmes opens up on shock Sharks exit to chase NFL dream

Former NRL player Valentine Holmes says he regrets the way his exit from Cronulla panned out, but believes he got out at the right time given the current situation at the club.

January 30, 2019 5:04pmby Staff writersSource: FOX SPORTS

Holmes stunned the Sharks last November when he asked for an immediate release to chase an NFL dream in the United States.

The 23-year-old has since been named in the NFL International Player Pathway Program and is currently training in Florida with other athletes who are also hoping to land a contract.

Holmes is currently two weeks into the three-month intensive program where he trains and studies the game up to 16 hours a day.

“It didn’t really come out the way I had planned it to, and I did want to go on and do a media release properly and tell the boys properly before it got leaked,” Holmes told Channel 7 of his Sharks departure.

Following his release from the Sharks, the club were fined $800,000 and coach Shane Flanagan deregistered after revelations the mentor breached the terms of his 2014 suspension over the infamous supplements scandal
The evidence was uncovered during the NRL Integrity Unit’s investigation into the Sharks’ 2015 salary cap breaches, something which is still hanging over the club.

Flanagan has since resigned with the club currently interviewing interim coach John Morris and Penrith assistant Cameron Ciraldo for the top job.

“The club has been hit with a lot. Not only the club but the NRL,” Holmes said.

“Probably, in a way, it was a good time I got out.”

Holmes’ NFL dream is a huge gamble considering the Sharks were willing to table him a $5 million offer over five years which would’ve made him one of the highest paid players in the club’s history.

But even if he hadn’t decided to jet off to the States, Holmes, who hails from Townsville, said the 2019 NRL season would’ve been his last in the black, white and blue.

When asked if he’d like to join the Cowboys if his NFL plans didn’t work out, he replied: “Yeah, I think so.

“If I didn’t make this decision, it was probably going to be my last year at the Sharks.”

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...m/news-story/1d0dc62274ad8e79dd7e0a1c98f3c15c

Well that ends that mystery!

 

[HITMAN]

Could be context but this explanation missed the mark. Comes off as a selfish and entitled IMO.

 

[snowman]

look his interview was raw and honest, but we all knew this would be his last year with us

 

[HaroldBishop]

“It didn’t really come out the way I had planned it to, and I did want to go on and do a media release properly and tell the boys properly before it got leaked,” Holmes told Channel 7 of his Sharks departure.

Bull****.

 

[gando2230]

what no Danny Weilder scoop for Ch9 ???

 

[Mark^Bastard]

Could be context but this explanation missed the mark. Comes off as a selfish and entitled IMO.

Yeah agreed.

I actually didn't have any ill will towards him until reading that.

Now I hope he goes the way of Hayne, fails at NFL and comes back never being the same player he was before.

 

[gando2230]

Hahahaha

 

[Addy]

Happy Valentine's Day y'all

 

[CrazyMatt]

Has apparently signed with the New York Jets for one year. Forget for a minute the circumstances around his departure and realise that this is actually a massive achievement. Good on him I say.

 

[Thresher]

Has apparently signed with the New York Jets for one year. Forget for a minute the circumstances around his departure and realise that this is actually a massive achievement. Good on him I say.

If he gets some special interest story airtime over there it could give our club some good exposure around the world.