The potential for Visa issues should have been the very first thing considered, so the clubs invited can make a decision based on all the facts. If DD was told the Broncos were being invited to play the Vegas round but might be without Haas and Walsh, it gives him the chance to say no thanks...
Surely we refuse to go if guys like Walsh and Haas can't get a Visa. A team can't be forced to play without some top players because the NRL is useless. It's a premiership game, there's 2 points on the line!
I don't give a crap about what the Yanks get to see though, the entire idea is moronic.
Not that I want him at all, but if I did, it's the offload that makes him so dangerous. Perhaps it needs to be a bit more controlled in it's use, but an offloadless TPJ is not a TPJ I would consider signing.
If I was heading to the good ol US of A for some reason anyway, I would see if I could time it the same and go to the game. But there's no way I'd pay that kind of money, to fly halfway around the world, just to see a footy game.
Plus I don't actually like the idea, I think it's another 'gem'...
Yeah, that's what I thought. And then, having lost our halves, the need changed.
In some ways, it's less that we transitioned a 1 into a 6, and more that we transitioned half into a 1, and later moved him back.
I'd like for someone with more knowledge than me to answer this (or correct me) but my memory says 'no'. IIRC, Bennet has said the reason for Locky's switch to 6 was because we had Hunt knocking the door down to play 1, and we had a 1 who he believed could play 6 (I think maybe Locky played some...
The guy wins you the most recent tournament, against Aus by a record margin.....
Nah let's not work with him, instead issue him an ultimatum and lose him
SMH
Who is to say other clubs didn't find it? It doesn't take a recruiting genius to see a generational talent. It would be ridiculously naive to think multiple clubs won't uncover this gem, but there is just one gem, and so just one club will reap this benefit. And in all likelihood the gem is...
I think this is exactly right, it's really for the exceptional talent you want to entice over. But this makes it all the worse, because this will happen only once or twice or so a decade, which means 1 or 2 clubs will gain a salary cap benefit that all the other clubs won't.
It's a really bad...
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