[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Denny Solomona speculation & implications : Tue Nov 08, 2016 10:18 pm  

BD wrote:

Very unprofessional of Denny to post what he did on social media. Good riddance I say. I don't think he would have bagged half those tries this season if he didn't have Gale & Dorn servicing his wing.

Josh charnley's snapchat had a glimpse of him actually

Re: Denny Solomona speculation & implications : Tue Nov 08, 2016 10:20 pm  

BD wrote:

Even if Cas turned the offer down, it doesn't give him a right to just up and leave when he wants. If that was the case, every bloody player would be doing it.

Exactly. Besides, didn't Charnley go to Sale? I didn't see him "retire" after the Grand Final. Sounds like this is mostly down to the player.

The RFL need to make an example of this. Ban him from the sport for the remaining years on his contract and then some.

Re: Denny Solomona speculation & implications : Tue Nov 08, 2016 10:21 pm  

Fantastic Mr Catpiss wrote:

Josh charnley's snapchat had a glimpse of him actually

Either way. Clearly he wasn't authorised by the club to be training with another club today - that's basis enough. That's unprofessional.

Re: Denny Solomona speculation & implications : Tue Nov 08, 2016 10:24 pm  

Adios. the show will very much continue without Denny. Cheers for the 2 years. But we have lost fantastic individuals before and still continued to grow as a team. More so then ever I am confident that this will happen again, very excited for 2017.

Re: Denny Solomona speculation & implications : Tue Nov 08, 2016 10:26 pm  

Towns88 wrote:

Adios. the show will very much continue without Denny. Cheers for the 2 years. But we have lost fantastic individuals before and still continued to grow as a team. More so then ever I am confident that this will happen again, very excited for 2017.

Think we have a bit of a jinx with our left wing - all that drama with Carney last year and now this? Ridiculous.

Re: Denny Solomona speculation & implications : Tue Nov 08, 2016 10:27 pm  

Towns88 wrote:

Adios. the show will very much continue without Denny. Cheers for the 2 years. But we have lost fantastic individuals before and still continued to grow as a team. More so then ever I am confident that this will happen again, very excited for 2017.

Would you not be a bit disappointed in the club for not just cashing in if it was obvious he wanted to go? £350k would be a lot of money to have missed out on.

Re: Denny Solomona speculation & implications : Tue Nov 08, 2016 10:48 pm  

jakeyg95 wrote:

Would you not be a bit disappointed in the club for not just cashing in if it was obvious he wanted to go? £350k would be a lot of money to have missed out on.

I don't see why any tigers fan should be disappointed with the club. They have said they wanna hold on to their best players.

Denny may have wanted to leave but he has a contract and cas had every right to turn down any offer. Denny should have accepted he was staying.

Remember when SBW walked out on his contract with Canterbury to go to French rugby.

The NRL slapped a ban on him.

Re: Denny Solomona speculation & implications : Tue Nov 08, 2016 10:56 pm  

The situation is as so,

Denny signs a long term contract renewal, on a pittance really, of £40'000. He has the season of his life, benefiting from some great link play inside of him, breaks all the records. The rumours have it he demanded £120k a year. Of which Cas wouldn't or couldn't stretch to at the time, I'm sure there are some at the club who thought he deserved rewarding.

There have been big offers come in, but we're making a stance that we do not want to be a selling club, we want to be a big club and keeping our prize assets is the only way to go. We turn down offers, which is a first for us as we're not desperate for the cash. The player and those around him have decided he's leaving anyway.

Sale had rumoured to have told him they'd pay his fines for not returning training until a deal was struck, Denny Solomona told the players before now he wasn't coming back, that I'm sure of. So to not come back is no surprise. However to post on social media today the stuff he has is disrespectful and bang out of order.

I don't blame him for wanting a move if a huge pay rise is there, but the club have one hell of a legal battle on their hands and the sport as a whole does, if Denny walks away for free, the floodgates are opened. And we can kiss goodbye to all our superstars as as soon as someone in Rugby Union waves the cash, they'll be off.

I hope he goes to Sale, I hope we reach an amicable solution, the fees talked about were around £300'000. To be quite honest, if we could get half of that and walk away tomorrow. We'd have done well

But the RFL ought to be monitoring this closely, and ensuring they either back the club in their fight, or fix up any loopholes that may have been exploited for future. Ideally. Both.

Re: Denny Solomona speculation & implications : Tue Nov 08, 2016 10:58 pm  

kobashi wrote:

I don't see why any tigers fan should be disappointed with the club. They have said they wanna hold on to their best players.

Denny may have wanted to leave but he has a contract and cas had every right to turn down any offer. Denny should have accepted he was staying.

Remember when SBW walked out on his contract with Canterbury to go to French rugby.

The NRL slapped a ban on him.

Maybe not disappointed then but if it was Wakefield I'd be a bit annoyed if we had someone who was adamant they wanted to go, we refused to sell and then they ended up leaving for nothing. I'd obviously blame the player more than the club but I'd probably feel like the club should have been less stubborn and taken the money.

Re: Denny Solomona speculation & implications : Tue Nov 08, 2016 11:31 pm  

jakeyg95 wrote:

Maybe not disappointed then but if it was Wakefield I'd be a bit annoyed if we had someone who was adamant they wanted to go, we refused to sell and then they ended up leaving for nothing. I'd obviously blame the player more than the club but I'd probably feel like the club should have been less stubborn and taken the money.

You also don't really want a player at your Club who had been offered a big money move, was stopped and has now got the lip out. Your hardly going to get the best out of him the nest season but I suppose it depends what kind of player it is.