OFFICIAL Tevita Pangai is not our problem anymore

Developing:

At this stage it looks like he's seeing out 2021 and joining the Dogs next year, with Brisbane releasing him from his 2022 contract. If that's the case, the club won't need to subsidize the deal.


 
Numbers being thrown around:

"The NRL’s salary-cap auditor wanted the Panthers to pay at least $130,000 for TPJ's immediate switch from the Broncos to Penrith this season. But Panthers only have ~ $80,000 in their cap. Meaning they'd need to offload another player to the Broncos as part of a straight-swap. It essentially means the Panthers are just $50,000 shy."
 
Numbers being thrown around:

"The NRL’s salary-cap auditor wanted the Panthers to pay at least $130,000 for TPJ's immediate switch from the Broncos to Penrith this season. But Panthers only have ~ $80,000 in their cap. Meaning they'd need to offload another player to the Broncos as part of a straight-swap. It essentially means the Panthers are just $50,000 shy."
Tell them we will do them a favour and take Cleary, the blokes injured anyway.
 
We have put up with him at his most undisciplined and inconsistent, and when it looks like he turns a corner showing less brain snaps, and being one of our best every week, now we decide to get rid of him. Poor decision, as I think we are getting rid of him as he hits his peak.
 
We have put up with him at his most undisciplined and inconsistent, and when it looks like he turns a corner showing less brain snaps, and being one of our best every week, now we decide to get rid of him. Poor decision, as I think we are getting rid of him as he hits his peak.
That's a stretch, definitely been better but not $700k+ better. What is he doing atm
 
This isolated point isn't the issue. It isn't about TPJ, it is about the precedent it continues after the SBW rubbish last year.

Gasnier/Dragons did it over 10 years ago, he came back and played from Round 17 and won a comp on a pro rata amount.

SBW didn't start this.
 
Gasnier/Dragons did it over 10 years ago, he came back and played from Round 17 and won a comp on a pro rata amount.

SBW didn't start this.

Again, not the point. The NRL bought in rules so the Gasnier thing couldn't happen again (I think anyway). I don't care if SBW started or not, the point remains it is pure stupidity to allow this to happen. How can claim to have a fair competition if he can LEGITIMATELY get a star player from another club on a pittance at the business end of the season just cos they want to offload him?

The Broncos made this mess and TPJ has contributed to it, he should either be made to sit out or stay at the club until next season. His agent has exploited a nice little loophole here to get a better deal and if the Panthers had $50k more, a shot at a premiership. This is ludicrous.
 
Again, i think it i jumping at shadows. Really, how much is this happening?

I guess it is worth the discussion though so have at it but to me this just highlights the mis-management and incorrect direction our club has taken over the last 2 years vs. another reason to complain about the NRL.

How much is it happening...yet. If this deal legit goes / went through, you don't think other clubs are going to follow suit? Parra (denied it) have been spoken about picking up Milf, likely for minimum wage. Regardless of how bad he has become, he has been paid as a marquee at another club. This highlights so many things wrong with the NRL's administration and really, if we are going this path, why even have a salary cap or even more so, why even have contracts?
 
We have put up with him at his most undisciplined and inconsistent, and when it looks like he turns a corner showing less brain snaps, and being one of our best every week, now we decide to get rid of him. Poor decision, as I think we are getting rid of him as he hits his peak.

I suppose that depends on his attitude off the field ... and he did recently meet with a rival coach (reportedly)
 
How much is it happening...yet. If this deal legit goes / went through, you don't think other clubs are going to follow suit? Parra (denied it) have been spoken about picking up Milf, likely for minimum wage. Regardless of how bad he has become, he has been paid as a marquee at another club. This highlights so many things wrong with the NRL's administration and really, if we are going this path, why even have a salary cap or even more so, why even have contracts?
Why do you refer to minimum wage, when was that reported? Eels would take on his contract at the permission of the Broncos.

Of course the Broncos aren't going to let the Eels pay minimum wage for 3 months (about 30k) when the Broncos have to pay him ~240k in that same time frame.
 
Again, not the point. The NRL bought in rules so the Gasnier thing couldn't happen again (I think anyway). I don't care if SBW started or not, the point remains it is pure stupidity to allow this to happen. How can claim to have a fair competition if he can LEGITIMATELY get a star player from another club on a pittance at the business end of the season just cos they want to offload him?

The Broncos made this mess and TPJ has contributed to it, he should either be made to sit out or stay at the club until next season. His agent has exploited a nice little loophole here to get a better deal and if the Panthers had $50k more, a shot at a premiership. This is ludicrous.

It is the point when you say this will start it happening and it didn't start it happening in 2010 with the Dragons.

Didn't Townsend do it a few weeks ago and it's still yet to happen again and no one cared less about Townsend doing it.
 
I find it funny that we have more sophisticated rules to stop end of season shenanigans where the bottom teams give players to the top teams in SVRL than the NRL has.

Porthoz for Chairman!

Literally read my mind.
 
It is the point when you say this will start it happening and it didn't start it happening in 2010 with the Dragons.

Didn't Townsend do it a few weeks ago and it's still yet to happen again and no one cared less about Townsend doing it.

Yeah because Townsend sucks, that's why, doesn't make it right either and it also shouldn't have happened..

Look, the other possibility is that the reality is that maybe I am just not the type of fan the NRL wants anymore, I don't like corruption or unfairness, maybe this is what the new generation of fans want, though the ratings would suggest it isn't. I'm just waiting for Melbourne to be given their premierships back, I wouldn't be surprised if this regime does it because its a free for all now.
 
Yeah because Townsend sucks, that's why, doesn't make it right either and it also shouldn't have happened..

Look, the other possibility is that the reality is that maybe I am just not the type of fan the NRL wants anymore, I don't like corruption or unfairness, maybe this is what the new generation of fans want, though the ratings would suggest it isn't. I'm just waiting for Melbourne to be given their premierships back, I wouldn't be surprised if this regime does it because its a free for all now.
Come on mate, just because someone doesn't agree with you on this issue doesn't mean they are supporters of corruption and unfairness...you are better than that!

If Melbourne get their premierships back, i riot.
 

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