Re: Mike Danson : Wed Aug 26, 2020 12:25 pm  

Grimmy wrote:

Because Bateman took one of them. Next year's marquee players are G.Burgess and Bateman

I'm sure the club never confirmed his marquee status, but I'm probably wrong.

Re: Mike Danson : Wed Aug 26, 2020 12:31 pm  

Grimmy wrote:

1. How do we just clear a marquee spot? They're both taken by players under contract for 2021 and 2022.
2. Why on earth would Wade Graham give up playing Origin and for the Australian national side to fly round the world and play in a second rate competition? It's not like he will be on a low wage in the NRL

All that is aside from the fact we have quite clearly spent a lot of money securing Lockers' replacement on a marquee contract.

I was just using Wade Graham as an example,there is a massive list of players coming off contract in the NRL

Re: Mike Danson : Wed Aug 26, 2020 12:59 pm  

warrior1872 wrote:

I was just using Wade Graham as an example,there is a massive list of players coming off contract in the NRL

A very good example IMO and a good replacement if/when Lockers retires, Graham is a proper old school 13, a big stand off/second rower.

Re: Mike Danson : Thu Aug 27, 2020 7:50 am  

Grimmy wrote:

Because Bateman took one of them. Next year's marquee players are G.Burgess and Bateman

Are we that desperate to have a player past his best and possibly injury problems as one of the marquee players?

Re: Mike Danson : Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:25 am  

Ruddy Duck wrote:

Are we that desperate to have a player past his best and possibly injury problems as one of the marquee players?

Maybe not
But if he's got a 3 year contract and is one of the 2 highest earners then what do you do?

You seem to have a very simplistic logic and I've seen lots of people with this thought pattern, hes no good get rid.
Very simple when your not the one dealing with the contracts etc.

Grimmy was asked a question why we couldnt just go and sign a half million pound a year player just because we have a multi millionaire backer.
Hes given everyone a perfectly 100% reason.
Nest year the top 2 earners will be Bateman and Burgess (rightly or wrongly).

Buying anyone else will have a massive impact on the salary cap and squad numbers if we are to offer them the type of money it would need to sign an origin level player, assuming theyd want to come here when they can get that and more and still be eligible to play origin and OZ back in Australia.

Unless we get rid of 5 players to gain 1
And at that point I would say in a salary cap sport it would be suicide to do so.

Re: Mike Danson : Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:33 am  

Jukesays wrote:

Unless we get rid of 5 players to gain 1
And at that point I would say in a salary cap sport it would be suicide to do so.

And we are suddenly into Uncle Mo territory again

Re: Mike Danson : Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:56 am  

Egg Chasing wrote:

And we are suddenly into Uncle Mo territory again

Yes paying four or five players over half the salary cap and having player(s) in the same team on £8.5K per year. Sounds like a plan, a bloody bad one!!!

Re: Mike Danson : Fri Aug 28, 2020 6:17 am  

Jukesays wrote:

Maybe not
But if he's got a 3 year contract and is one of the 2 highest earners then what do you do?

You seem to have a very simplistic logic and I've seen lots of people with this thought pattern, hes no good get rid.
Very simple when your not the one dealing with the contracts etc.

Grimmy was asked a question why we couldnt just go and sign a half million pound a year player just because we have a multi millionaire backer.
Hes given everyone a perfectly 100% reason.
Nest year the top 2 earners will be Bateman and Burgess (rightly or wrongly).

Buying anyone else will have a massive impact on the salary cap and squad numbers if we are to offer them the type of money it would need to sign an origin level player, assuming theyd want to come here when they can get that and more and still be eligible to play origin and OZ back in Australia.

Unless we get rid of 5 players to gain 1
And at that point I would say in a salary cap sport it would be suicide to do so.

Get rid of him as he only signed for Wigan for easy money and Wigan only signed him for the publicity of signing a Burgess brother who is in fact no longer in the same class as his twin brother Tom and more so retired brother Sam.

A shame as when they were younger, he was the better of the twins.

Re: Mike Danson : Fri Aug 28, 2020 7:13 am  

Ruddy Duck wrote:

Get rid of him as he only signed for Wigan for easy money and Wigan only signed him for the publicity of signing a Burgess brother who is in fact no longer in the same class as his twin brother Tom and more so retired brother Sam.

A shame as when they were younger, he was the better of the twins.

How?

Re: Mike Danson : Fri Aug 28, 2020 7:15 am  

Ruddy Duck wrote:

Get rid of him as he only signed for Wigan for easy money and Wigan only signed him for the publicity of signing a Burgess brother who is in fact no longer in the same class as his twin brother Tom and more so retired brother Sam.

A shame as when they were younger, he was the better of the twins.

You're either a troll, or slow.

How do you get rid of someone on a 3 year deal?