I can understand that we are losing both our star halves as they realistically just went to the highest bidder and Kelly was to the opinion that he wasn't going to spend any more than $800k-$1m a season for them. However why keep telling the media that we have this so called War chest to go out and sign the very best players when these two guys were the best in their respective positions. I have a feeling we are just going to sign absolute garbage and pay way overs for that garbage.
The more media attention this gets from Kelly's mouth and our war chest just means that no players will come to Manly unless we pay overs for them. Atleast when Des was in charge i can hardly think of any more than a couple of players if that at all, that we signed over the past 10years or so that we payed absolute overs for….
You can see what the roosters are doing in quickly re-signing their star players at the beginning of the season so their value doesn't go up further. Nappa/JWH have just signed, they will sign Roger TS….the list of decent players will continue to get smaller and we will be pressured in to taking the likes of Hodgkinson/Malloney/Carnery et al .
The last few years we have been really bad at signing whether it is re-signing or new players. Take Hiku as an example….instead of signing him earlier we waited ages til every club wanted him and had to pay a high price to keep him. I am glad we kept him but you see what i mean. The same will happen with both Tom and Jake….we will wait and wait and pay top dollar to keep them…
Manly need to come out and announce Matt ballin has re-signed this week. I would also have liked us to go after the roger tuivasa-sheck and dylan nappers of the world and even if we didn't get them at least the Roosters would have to pay up. It seems that every club is willing and enable to do that to us…..RTS is an absolute gun by the way and he wouldn't be a bad 5/8 option…...
The more media attention this gets from Kelly's mouth and our war chest just means that no players will come to Manly unless we pay overs for them. Atleast when Des was in charge i can hardly think of any more than a couple of players if that at all, that we signed over the past 10years or so that we payed absolute overs for….
You can see what the roosters are doing in quickly re-signing their star players at the beginning of the season so their value doesn't go up further. Nappa/JWH have just signed, they will sign Roger TS….the list of decent players will continue to get smaller and we will be pressured in to taking the likes of Hodgkinson/Malloney/Carnery et al .
The last few years we have been really bad at signing whether it is re-signing or new players. Take Hiku as an example….instead of signing him earlier we waited ages til every club wanted him and had to pay a high price to keep him. I am glad we kept him but you see what i mean. The same will happen with both Tom and Jake….we will wait and wait and pay top dollar to keep them…
Manly need to come out and announce Matt ballin has re-signed this week. I would also have liked us to go after the roger tuivasa-sheck and dylan nappers of the world and even if we didn't get them at least the Roosters would have to pay up. It seems that every club is willing and enable to do that to us…..RTS is an absolute gun by the way and he wouldn't be a bad 5/8 option…...