I read that article last night. Don't be wowed by the initially-impressive but vague and ultimately vacuous use of numbers and "statistics". It's all based on the assumption that we will be able to offload Boyd, Peats and Latu with zero freight. The most pertinent line in the article is:
"Three bloated contacts gone in Boyd, Peats & Latu (remember, this is hypothetical) which means now we have some cash, 1.7 million a year to be exact, so let’s go shopping."
Who is going to take Boyd's remaining 3 years off our hands at $600k/year? Or Latu's $500k even just for one year? Without this, nothing else he suggests works and it's ultimately just more long-winded, amateur navel gazing. I don't want to offload Peats anyway. I think he's the kind of hard-headed defense-focused leader we need and I think he will come good again under a better coach. I'd rather offload Rein (surely someone would pick him up) and get Harry Grant as a bench hooker. Peats, James, Arrow + maybe Watkins for the backs need to be the core of our leadership group and I don't think we should be looking purely at numbers with those kinds of players.