NEWS Why Haas Rejected 6m Offer

[holdzy]

I think he's had his upgrade. We can't keep being held to ransom every time a player wants his contract improved.

Yeah I agree, but if it's an extra 50-100k, eh.

 

[Lockysillegitimatechild]

Haas is a gun, could become the best prop ever seen IF he keeps improving and he doesn't get worn out.... but, I've gotta ask.....

Would we have lost the 1st 2 games if we replaced him with 2 x $500,000 props? They'd be origin-level, and we still have flegler to come back. Or better still, would we win more games with that $1,000,000 spent on our spine?

I don't think haas' "mates" would like the answer....

 

[Bull Shark]

Remember when you actually liked the players that played for the club? It’s been a long time for me and I don’t see that changing anytime soon.

This is an interesting subject I’ve been thinking a bit about for quite a while – whether my / our enjoyment and excitement for NRL would increase if LESS was known about the players and the dramas and scandals and contract negotiations etc. In other words, all but completely switching off from the NRL news cycle through the week (including social media) and just tuning in on the weekend when games are on.

Would doing that rekindle the kind of feelings we had as kids when all we had was the Rugby League Week magazine, the Thursday night footy show and non-clickbait newspaper stories?

There was always something a bit magical and mystical about seeing your team for the first & only time that week when they ran out the tunnel on Friday, Saturday or Sunday to play.

 

[Scorchie]

Of course, SBW's best mate Weidler is running amok in the media.

Batten the hatches.

NRL should step in and ask all players to honor their deals.

 

[Galah]

Lolo?

Look how well that’s playing out.

this whole thing feels like a shakedown and if didn’t look so bad on us, at a time when we need to be looking like we aren’t losing a great player, so we can attract other players. I’d say **** no too more then he’s currently on. He’s basically the second highest paid middle forward in the comp.

 

[Bull Shark]

Haas is a gun, could become the best prop ever seen IF he keeps improving and he doesn't get worn out.... but, I've gotta ask.....

Would we have lost the 1st 2 games if we replaced him with 2 x $500,000 props? They'd be origin-level, and we still have flegler to come back. Or better still, would we win more games with that $1,000,000 spent on our spine?

I don't think haas' "mates" would like the answer....

Yep, for every cloud there's a silver lining and for the broncos, losing Haas would definitely enable more salary cap attention to be focused on areas that can really move the needle for a team's fortunes.

 

[Galah]

If for some reason this shit actually goes down, I’d want Collins “back” or no deal.

I mean obviously walker but yeah right….

 

[Sproj]

Yeah I genuinely don't care if he leaves because I don't want to be paying any prop 1 million BUT he certainly shouldn't be allowed to walk out on his current deal.

Also, as others have mentioned, if he wants a million a year now and wants to extend, fine. If he just wants a million now but not extend, pull the offer already on the table and plan to use the money elsewhere. We are not wanting for forwards and young forwards coming through. Losing Haas would suck but if he wants to play us like this through his present influence group, then we don't want that influence around the club, continue to cut the cancer, make him play out his contract with us in Q Cup.

If all of this is a massive beat up and he means what he says about wanting to stay here and honour his deal, then credit to him but there is way too much smoke around this fire to think this is the case.

 

[Dash]

Haas is a gun, could become the best prop ever seen IF he keeps improving and he doesn't get worn out.... but, I've gotta ask.....

Would we have lost the 1st 2 games if we replaced him with 2 x $500,000 props? They'd be origin-level, and we still have flegler to come back. Or better still, would we win more games with that $1,000,000 spent on our spine?

I don't think haas' "mates" would like the answer....

This is it. A $1m spine player would make our team better than even 3 Payne Haases could.

 

[1910]

Of course, SBW's best mate Weidler is running amok in the media.

Batten the hatches.

NRL should step in and ask all players to honor their deals.

You don't want that- Broncos would have 12 players they don't want.

 

[Johnny92]

Haas is a gun, could become the best prop ever seen IF he keeps improving and he doesn't get worn out.... but, I've gotta ask.....

Would we have lost the 1st 2 games if we replaced him with 2 x $500,000 props? They'd be origin-level, and we still have flegler to come back. Or better still, would we win more games with that $1,000,000 spent on our spine?

I don't think haas' "mates" would like the answer....

Carrigan has been getting close to Haas numbers even Keenan is giving it a fair crack.
Willison is someone to look out for in the next few years and then throw Flegler in aswell.
A top class 1 or 9 runs more than that extra 20-50 metres Haas runs a game over the other forwards

He's a gun no denying that but It's kind of the case of do you want to have the bragging rights of having the best prop In the game or not

 

[BroncosFever]

The issue with Haas is the same issue the Cows are currently fighting, they've got a bloke on a 10 year deal and halfway into it they've seen his numbers take a dip, still good numbers but not what they once were.

I just hope we don't offer him a similar deal.

 

[ChewThePhatt]

Carrigan has been getting close to Haas numbers even Keenan is giving it a fair crack.
Willison is someone to look out for in the next few years and then throw Flegler in aswell.
A top class 1 or 9 runs more than that extra 20-50 metres Haas runs a game over the other forwards

He's a gun no denying that but It's kind of the case of do you want to have the bragging rights of having the best prop In the game or not

Agreed with your first paragraph

As for the second... **** bragging about individual players. I want to be bragging about winning games & fucking trophies!

 

[Midean]

Sick of it, let him go, use the money on a fullback.
In reality I hope we are wrong and he wants to stay, but my gut says otherwise.

 

[ningnangnong]

This is an interesting subject I’ve been thinking a bit about for quite a while – whether my / our enjoyment and excitement for NRL would increase if LESS was known about the players and the dramas and scandals and contract negotiations etc. In other words, all but completely switching off from the NRL news cycle through the week (including social media) and just tuning in on the weekend when games are on.

Would doing that rekindle the kind of feelings we had as kids when all we had was the Rugby League Week magazine, the Thursday night footy show and non-clickbait newspaper stories?

There was always something a bit magical and mystical about seeing your team for the first & only time that week when they ran out the tunnel on Friday, Saturday or Sunday to play.

100%.

We're saturated with coverage. Even if you don't go looking for it, you still hear about more than you need to.

Take me back to watching footy as a kid. You'd be desperate for any content you could get your hands on, but now that it's all available at your fingertips, it's just not the same.

All the players these days are celebrities, walking/talking billboards promoting various shit away from the field. Yeah, this was sort of coming in when I was growing up, but nowhere near to the extent it is now.

I miss the days when they were just footy players, just normal run-of-the-mill blokes, who didn't think they were hot shit the moment they played one minute of first grade.

 

[McHunt]

Weidler seems to be the sole source of this scandalous gossip:

https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/broncos-have-a-serious-problem-with-their-biggest-star/news-story/a91380c8e0c6aa9c8570d927ff04f322

 

[BroncsFan]

What needs to be weighed up in the back office is who do we want to keep.

Our squad is currently stacked with support players on big money.

Haas is already on a good deal, but we've got Carrigan (who looks loyal), Flegler, Willison, TC, Kobe, Riki, Piakura, Te Kura and Capewell as other guys looking to get a run.

We need to figure out what make up we want across our squad and decide who stays and who guys.

I've added Piakura to the above, because whilst Riki is doing a job for us on the edge I actually think he could play middle as well anyway... TC can play middle and edge, etc.

If we decide Haas is our man and we upgrade him only for him to leave in 2025, then maybe we end up losing some of Te Kura, Willison and/or TC in the meantime, because Haas is a roadblock on them financially and in terms of gametime.

If I'm the Broncos I am going to the NRL and letting it be known that we're not happy about the apparent conspiring taking place by the roosters to get Haas to break his contract 3yr out... if they stand back and do nothing about it only for Haas to be released then we will look to leak everything we know about how the deal went down.

If he gets released we make sure we ain't paying shit of his current deal and load up on other players, whilst Petey B and News write column upon column associated with how the deal went down.

We dont need to say anything publically and look pretty... we can do it through the backdoor via Brisbane media connections.

And every time we re-sign a player drop a hint about locking one away from the vulture clubs down south

 

[Lockysillegitimatechild]

This is an interesting subject I’ve been thinking a bit about for quite a while – whether my / our enjoyment and excitement for NRL would increase if LESS was known about the players and the dramas and scandals and contract negotiations etc. In other words, all but completely switching off from the NRL news cycle through the week (including social media) and just tuning in on the weekend when games are on.

Would doing that rekindle the kind of feelings we had as kids when all we had was the Rugby League Week magazine, the Thursday night footy show and non-clickbait newspaper stories?

There was always something a bit magical and mystical about seeing your team for the first & only time that week when they ran out the tunnel on Friday, Saturday or Sunday to play.

The problem isn't the amount, it's the quality of journalism and media. Not just in rugby league, although it is probably by far the worst, but sport and indeed media in general in Australia. Vlandys has ensured we have another 7 years of it thanks his bowing to a corpse that is "cable" tv....
I mean it's pure gutter coverage. Looking for the lowest hanging fruit. They have the tabloids in the UK and the soccer stars are in controversy but the amount of game analysis, tactical breakdowns, positive stories, and actual STORIES about the game mean that people talk about it. Same in the USA with nba and nfl. It's not about not covering controversy, it's about not making it when the game is still there to be talked about....
Honestly, who thought anasta, rothfield, Kent and Crawley on the 1 show would be likeable television?! Tallis would have intellectual game analysis? Gould wouldn't be biased (although he is a great analyst so leave him there!), Ennis to commentate against teams he obviously hated, gallen as an analyst? The list goes on and on and on. It's a joke....