Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Mar 28, 2023 11:13 am  

Article this morning suggesting Lewis Dodd has signed up to a NRL agency. Looks like another one on his way.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Mar 28, 2023 11:42 am  

Be good to see another club get decimated by the NRL for a bit.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Mar 28, 2023 11:45 am  

Won nowt with them and already bailing out, rats and sinking ships come to mind, wonder what WW69's take is on this outrage

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Mar 28, 2023 12:14 pm  

Egg Chasing wrote:

Be good to see another club get decimated by the NRL for a bit.

My sentiments exactly

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Mar 28, 2023 12:19 pm  

Hasn’t reached his peak yet the lad. Needs to slow down a bit and learn his craft with Saints. Rushton went over two soon played 1-2 games for Canberra rest spent in the reserves and came back. The amount they are offered I can see why they can’t turn it down but they are young and rather than spending a year over there and then being dropped they best holding out and hopefully getting a longer stint in the NRL

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Mar 28, 2023 12:24 pm  

Egg Chasing wrote:

Be good to see another club get decimated by the NRL for a bit.

Yep, rumblings George Williams might be wanted by Wests have been reported again.

Saints have lost a couple over the years to the NRL but nothing in comparison to us. Wire haven’t lost anyone of real note to there either.

Part of the reason we’ve fallen behind saints is being unable to retain players from the NRL.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Mar 28, 2023 12:43 pm  

Getting an agent doesn't mean he's had an offer. It.would surprise me if there was a big queue for his services at the moment particularly as he missed so much of last year.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Mar 28, 2023 1:49 pm  

The report says he’s off contract at the end of 2024, so I’d imagine the agency will now be working towards a move for 2025. Maybe Saints would accept a fee for 2024 but I’d say that’s unlikely (both in terms of somebody offering one or Saints accepting the money).

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Mar 28, 2023 4:47 pm  

Half backs are the marquee players, and in the NRL even the poor/average ones like Luke Brooks are on over $AS1m a year. Dodd would be daft not to at least test the market.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Mar 28, 2023 5:46 pm  

Jack Burton wrote:

Half backs are the marquee players, and in the NRL even the poor/average ones like Luke Brooks are on over $AS1m a year. Dodd would be daft not to at least test the market.

not really, the highest paid is Ponga who is a FB, Brooks is the 4th highest player in the NRL, at to that Tedesco, Fafita and Turbo Tom are also in the top 10, it doesnt mean the HB's are the marquees, only 8 players in the NRL are on $1million or above or £540k