Green contract mistake.

[EOL now nesting on the GC]

Hindsight is a powerful tool but given we have just signed Trent on a 2 year deal wouldn't have been more prudent to have just locked up green last year on a longer deal?

Have a feeling we wouldn't be this low on the ladder had we pushed on from last year with the same spine.

TB's experiment with Croker didn't work at all and probably went a long way to causing the whole Hastings drama. You could imagine it from Hastings point. TB sticks with a player that's not really cutting it week in week out. That's always going to cause issue and problems.

So really other than the cap drama a lot of what's happened is all linked to letting green go.

People will say that he's hardly setting the world on fire at the Warriors but that team without Johnson is pretty thin. When they were going earlier this season it looked the best buy ever. A bit like when he was with DCE.

 

[mave]

In other breaking news, water has been undeniably proven to be, in fact, wet.

 

[sheridanstand78]

The club were blindsided by Mitchell Pearce not signing and let Green go as a result. End of the day you want players who want to be here for our cause.

 

[Dan]

Green and his manager forced the issue, we didn't really have the choice to keep him. That decision was not ours. He had the option of a long term contract to see out his playing career and in the end we had to let him take it

 

[Clay]

I will never know for sure but I reckon Hastings called out a couple of players for their poor performances and it didn't go down well.

 

[40 years an eagle]

Even Greenturd said we would have been over the cap if we paid Green the 600k for 3 years needed to make him stay.
It was impossible to keep him, no hindsight needed, but yeah, we would be a lot better off now if we could have kept him.

 

[Cliffy's Ciggy]

Green for another couple of years was going to cost more than Trent H for 18months. The proof will be who, if anyone we sign for the halves next year.

 

[EOL now nesting on the GC]

We would have been over the cap.if we paid Green the 600k for 3 years needed to make him stay.
It was impossible to keep him, no hindsight needed,

You Sure? It seems like The team doesn't even know where we stand on the cap. pretty sure we don't either. Has it actually ever been said that green was released for the cap by anyone other than a fox sports or Daily Telegraph reporter????

Green and his manager forced the issue, we didn't really have the choice to keep him. That decision was not ours. He had the option of a long term contract to see out his playing career and in the end we had to let him take it

The issue was only forced when we made it clear we didn't want to extend his contract.

I find it funny when comments are made about 'player x ' didn't want to be part of our thing.... To the majority of players its just a JOB. If someone comes to you at your desk and says 'hey Harry, come over here and i will pay you more for longer' most on here would jump faster than Peter Rabbit. Sure you will always get the marters that say 'oh i wouldn't do it' blah blah blah but thats the reality. These guys have a limited time to make their money so good luck to them.

 

[EOL now nesting on the GC]

The club were blindsided by Mitchell Pearce not signing and let Green go as a result. End of the day you want players who want to be here for our cause.

Pearce would have cost way more than Green so the 'had to let him go for the cap' argument doesn't really hold weight.

 

[EOL now nesting on the GC]

In other breaking news, water has been undeniably proven to be, in fact, wet.

you sure? if its frozen its not actually wet.....

 

[47MVEagle]

Wasn't Green spitting the dummy & not turning up to training towards the end?

If so you don't want that sort of attitude in your team too long lest it starts to rub off on other players.

 

[HappilyManly]

Wasn't Green spitting the dummy & not turning up to training towards the end?

If so you don't want that sort of attitude in your team too long lest it starts to rub off on other players.

Exactly

Green refused to train once ge got the Warriors offer and forced Manly's hand 😎

No loss in the grand scheme of Manly's rebuild

 

[MadMarcus]

In other breaking news, water has been undeniably proven to be, in fact, wet.

The NRL has found Manly’s water is not in face wet and fined Manly $500k.

 

[Spartan Eagle]

In hindsight I should have avoided this thread. Same old same old.

 

[Class of 96]

In hindsight we should have let Cliffy play on another 5 years.

 

[40 years an eagle]

You Sure? It seems like The team doesn't even know where we stand on the cap. pretty sure we don't either. Has it actually ever been said that green was released for the cap by anyone other than a fox sports or Daily Telegraph reporter????

Just going by an NRL article quoting Greenturd after the salary crap started. I take it he meant Green.s 600k plus the 330k penalty would have put us over.

No, I don't think it was deliberate cap math making the decision to let Green go, more like us not wanting to pay 600k PA to keep him.

Everyone is guessing how our cap is and my guess is we have around 100k left after the 330k penalty, upgrading Suli and signing Hodko for 100k for the rest of this year.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Everyone is guessing how our cap is and my guess is we have around 100k left after the 330k penalty and signing Hodko for 100k for the rest of this year.

We should at least be given a picture of the jar of jelly beans, otherwise no fair.

 

[Heckenberg]

greens not that good. Cherry is just really bloody good when he has an organizing half. and so is shaun johnson. Its more the style of player as opposed to green being that great. He was pretty lame in attack besides his kicks for repeat sets and his defense is some of the worst ive seen.

 

[40 years an eagle]

We should at least be given a picture of the jar of jelly beans, otherwise no fair.

Greenturd likes it this way, if the cap and TPA's were transparent he couldn't play favourites and get rid of's.

 

[chuckee]

Green signed a contract and then decided he wanted an upgrade after reading too much of his own press in the papers. Green was solid and let Chez play his natural game. Hodko can potentially be an upgrade on him.