cheekydiddles wrote:
Why are people still saying we cut Garbutt to sign Merrin??
We still had Garbutt when we got Merrin
Garbutt was released to free up another quota spot AFTER and at the time it was heavily rumoured to be able to bring Ikahihifo in from the Giants
It was the release of Delaney that freed up quota space to be able to sign Merrin when Garbutt was still on our books and quota. Garbutt is yet to be replaced although with the recent releases hopefully his replacement will be announced soon
Actually, you need to recheck your dates there. It’s a live cap, and space was made to sign Merrin by including Garbutt off the cap. He had to be released, or several had to be released, in order to sign Merrin. Not saying Merrin is his out and out replacement, that might still come. But they couldn’t both be here, at that time.
Delaney was out of contract as of the end of October, and was already planned to be out of the equation.