Fifita has a cry

[jarro65]

And now he stays at the Sharks where he has ****ed off all the fans, unless he fires up big time he will be boooed by his own fans.

That's if the Sharks still want him ?

As far as they're concerned he was going to be a Dog next season and might have made plans that don't include him.

I'd laugh if he couldn't get a gig for next season :laugh:

 

[Foordy]

He'll get a gig somewhere but it appears doubtful that he'll get the 850k the Bulldogs were offering

 

[Dexter]

I don't know what his management have been feeding him bout union but if he can read he would know the ARU are broke so he won't get close to $850k. I think the Waratahs best offer was $350k.

I don't like to see anyone lose out this way but it's fair to say it was all his own doing.

 

[Super Freak]

The Sharks should have educated Andrew Fifita on how to handle himself publicly

Paul Kent
The Daily Telegraph
March 31, 2014 10:00PM

MOTIVATED by hate mail from trolls on Twitter, Andrew Fifita tried to be everyone’s friend last week.

After walking away from Cronulla he tried to appease Sharks fans by saying that his heart was still in Cronulla.

After rejecting a start with the NSW Waratahs he tried to placate rugby fans by saying he loved the sport and planned to finish his career in the game.

He thought he already had the Bulldogs market cornered, having signed a four-year deal there beginning next year.

So the interview finished, everybody is happy, right?

Fifita couldn’t have been more wrong.

The Sharks should have better educated him on how to handle himself publicly.

They know he is immature and prone to silly statements.

Paul Gallen told Triple M on Saturday that Fifita’s comments were silly. He said that this week some of the older players like himself and Luke Lewis would pull Fifita aside and talk to him about saying dumb things in public.

Unfortunately, by then it was already too late. The Bulldogs had seen enough, and who could blame them?

Yesterday, the hammer dropped.

Fifita is now the second *casualty of Twitter trolls after Josh Dugan cost himself a contract with Brisbane last year, when he told one jerk to “end himself”. You could build a hospital wing with the money they blew.

And yet on top of the personal cost there is a greater cost here. Once again, rugby league looks foolish.

A hundred black headlines were created through Fifita’s $850,000-a-year deal with the Bulldogs. It gave the game a great migraine as the battling Sharks took another blow.

Just as the game has nursed its way through those headlines, more damage, all we ask is could it have been avoided?

Compare that to Buddy Franklin’s switch from Hawthorn to the Swans.

Franklin agreed to join the Swans in January last year, more than 10 months before the first whiff became public. The secret was kept an entire season for, as Franklin and the Swans knew, there was no benefit in releasing it earlier.

All it would do is tip off GWS, who were gearing to make a play for him when the AFL trade window opened, as well as give Hawthorn fair warning about what they were up against to keep him. And even though GWS were circling, Hawks fans knew nothing was confirmed, as nothing could be done until the trade window opened.

Their disappointment when Franklin left was the natural disappointment of any fan, but the timing couldn’t have been more perfect from the AFL’s point of view. The season was over, so no season was disrupted, no fans handed in their Buddy jerseys.

And the secret didn’t begin to leak until the AFL slowly, deliciously, slow-dripped the details to dominate media coverage in NRL grand final week. That included the prime real estate, the back page.

There was a time when the NRL resisted ideas like trade windows. It believed naturally breaking news was all good grist, part of the daily NRL conversation. But fans have grown tired of being disappointed, increasingly turned off by players signing away their futures with more than a year to run on contracts, of their season’s being sideswiped by sudden news. There are lessons on every level here.

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[subsbligh]

If Fifita was such hot property that the Bulldogs were, until 2 days ago, willing to pay $850,000 a season for him, there must be a lot more to this story than the Bulldogs cracking the nah nahs about some throw away comment from Fifita.

For example, that they in fact couldn't come good on that figure due to bad third party deals or representations or salary cap restrictions and were looking to delicately exit themselves from the deal legally (and in the media/public light, which seems to be all that matters to most people).

Buyer's remorse maybe?

 

[subsbligh]

That's if the Sharks still want him ?

As far as they're concerned he was going to be a Dog next season and might have made plans that don't include him.

I'd laugh if he couldn't get a gig for next season :laugh:

Count down to some knob posting a Fifita to Broncos thread in the Rumour Mill.

 

[Foordy]

If Fifita was such hot property that the Bulldogs were, until 2 days ago, willing to pay $850,000 a season for him, there must be a lot more to this story than the Bulldogs cracking the nah nahs about some throw away comment from Fifita.

For example, that they in fact couldn't come good on that figure due to bad third party deals or representations or salary cap restrictions and were looking to delicately exit themselves from the deal legally (and in the media/public light, which seems to be all that matters to most people).

Buyer's remorse maybe?

One of the articles i read said that some of the Bulldogs management were having second thoughts about giving Fifita such a big contract and Fifitas comments to the media gave them the opportunity to rectify it

 

[GCBRONCO]

Count down to some knob posting a Fifita to Broncos thread in the Rumour Mill.

I can confirm its true, the Broncos are interested him in...............

Denver that is.

 

[Foordy]

Andrew Fifita's management team has asked the NRL to investigate why his multi-million-dollar contract with Canterbury failed to come to fruition as it emerged that the Test prop knew the deal was on the verge of collapse when he made his controversial comments about wishing he'd signed with rugby union.Representatives for Fifita met NRL officials at League Central on Tuesday to outline elements of the deal that Canterbury allegedly failed to honour after having reached agreement three weeks earlier, when the player signed a memorandum of understanding with the club.
It is understood the shortfall was worth up to $1 million over four years, with Fairfax Media told that the long-form contract Fifita received last Thursday was worth $335,000 under the salary cap and $250,000 in third-party agreements.

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Those amounts increased over the term of the contract, which had been widely reported as being worth $3.4 millon over four years.
Fifita, who announced he had agreed to a deal with Canterbury on Twitter after the Sharks round-one match against the Gold Coast, was the subject of widespread condemnation after he told an AAP reporter last Friday he had regrets over his decision to join the Bulldogs and would have preferred rugby instead.
But it is understood those comments were a reaction to what he felt was a shortfall in the money promised.

Andrew Fifita asks NRL to investigate breakdown of Canterbury deal

 

[gordjw]

It's the Streisand effect. Oh dear.

 

[GCBRONCO]

Fifita's response to the Bulldogs bailing on him.

 

[Foordy]

:laugh: who was Fifita and who was the Bulldogs in that video

 

[GCBRONCO]

:laugh: who was Fifita and who was the Bulldogs in that video

Anyone of them I suppose looking back now :laugh: But I suppose Roger with his crap talk about regretting his decision to sign with the Dogs and stay with Rugby League and Stan being the Bulldogs serving him back his dues lol