OFFICIAL Payne Haas to depart Broncos at the end of 2026

9 months??? Thought they only started discussions once Koloamatangi was gone. Was that their plan all along, to let him go because they were already going for Haas this whole time?

It’s disappointing that his negotiations with broncos was only ever going to be for a short term contract while at the same time he discussing longer with Rabbitohs, I assume broncos didn’t want to add any clauses like Rabbitohs? I guess we’ll never know.

It is what it is.
Nah 9 months is how long broncos have been working on it
 
Appreciate Haas putting out a statement clearing up the BS about Madge. No doubt Crawley and other hacks of his ilk will still drive their agenda to attack him though.
Sydney media already doing the whole "do we actually believe it"

RL journos are scum... deliberately lying to generate clicks and then preaching that they're the holders of the truth.
 
Appreciate Haas putting out a statement clearing up the BS about Madge. No doubt Crawley and other hacks of his ilk will still drive their agenda to attack him though.

I am guessing, Broncos forced him into saying this.
 
TBH, releasing a club video & club statement was never going to convince anyone, surprising that media expert donuts thought it would. They should have had him do an interview with some Syd hack instead.
 
TBH, releasing a club video & club statement was never going to convince anyone, surprising that media expert donuts thought it would. They should have had him do an interview with some Syd hack instead.
Likely this was the best they could do considering where they are currently.

Payne video/statement and DD on radio was as good as it was going to get to get it out quickly.
 
Oh, Cheers!! Everyone at broncos that have been working on it must be gutted.

Why couldn’t this happen a few weeks ago before Tino signed. I’m still spewing about that lol
I was looking back and his manager said he was going nowhere in June last year... 9 months ago is about May... so I'm guessing it was all pretty close to sorted way back then... and then R360 popped up and Haas was always wanting that to remain an option.

So I'd say he's been trying to figure out how a FIFO R360 arrangement would work from that point on... and Sydney near his partner's family has probably been in the thought process
 
Cooling off period has been waived.

Had been working on it for like 9 months, but only a handful inside knew anything on the actual deal... so there's a lot of peanuts getting thrown from the back row who dont really know anything.

Indicated that R360 was big in the media, but it probably did play a part.
- I'd say an interpretation of this is that a deal probably gets done ages ago (3yr deals reported in the media), but the money around R360 had him thinking and stalled things... I'd say from that point onward Haas wanted a contract and situation that allows him to do R360 if it gets going

Indicated that any deal with broncos was leading to it being a short term deal.

That's probably not all of it, but things I took away... they'll probably put it on YouTube at some point

I thought PVL was talking 10 year bans .
Then registers a contract with a clause to go to R 360 ? Empty threats ?
 
I thought PVL was talking 10 year bans .
Then registers a contract with a clause to go to R 360 ? Empty threats ?
He already said it wouldn't apply to Lomax, so any threat of that being upheld is already gone
 
I thought PVL was talking 10 year bans .
Then registers a contract with a clause to go to R 360 ? Empty threats ?
It wouldn't be worded like that... DD specifically said Union this morning and then R360.

Clause could be something along the lines of ability to explore opportunities in Union competitions or something like that
 
It wouldn't be worded like that... DD specifically said Union this morning and then R360.

Clause could be something along the lines of ability to explore opportunities in Union competitions or something like that
I wouldn’t be surprised if SBW and friends start convincing him to join union after ‘27.
 
I thought PVL was talking 10 year bans .
Then registers a contract with a clause to go to R 360 ? Empty threats ?

FYI, Braith Anasta claims there is no r360 clause but there is a Bennett clause.

Just on Braith he touched on Pezet in relation to Payne leaving for about 30 seconds.

Said it was like a gut punch to him any he felt a bit bad, because they had been given assurances that Payne would be there ... He also said he still doesn't have any concerns about Pezet coming to us
 
Just on Braith he touched on Pezet in relation to Payne leaving for about 30 seconds.

Said it was like a gut punch to him any he felt a bit bad, because they had been given assurances that Payne would be there ... He also said he still doesn't have any concerns about Pezet coming to us

I am shocked at this.
 
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