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