frank stokes
I discriminate indiscriminately
As I said, do not expect any help from the. NRL… Manly seem to get knocked back on everything… mind you we may have started the whole salary cap issue with a $1 contract too… (if memory serves)Take your point but I imagine by that stage, he will have retired from rep footy anyway. Eventually, Tom Dearden will be a permanent fixture with Munster. I also think that 'market value' rule is highly contentious. There's been some players signing train and trial deals of late, that are worth upwards of 500-700k on the open market. Matt Lodge being one of them. I recall Hayne defecting to Parramatta from a 1.2m deal to 500k a season and nothing was said. The only time the NRL seemed to care about the rule was when we tried to sign Glenn Stewart for less than 350k and weren't allowed.
Agree he may be retired but then who knows… Chez is pretty good at defying the odds… Would never have expected him to play for let alone captain Qld at one point but here we are..