He's a great player and a good signing and anyone from leads reading this forum is making a great decision and we will be sorry to have lost him
Jonas Pearson confirmed
Not a bad signing for what I would guess is a fairly minimum wage contract. Isn't the flashiest or most skillful player but will at least put a bit of pressure on Don & Copley for that other wing spot. We are desperately short in the outside backs so depth and competition is good
Prefer Pearson over Hoffman
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Article from a couple of hours ago claiming Souths are hopeful Arrow will sign with them in the next day or so:
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/sou...18-p53l8o.html
If he does leave I hope we are tough and don't release him a year early unless we get one or two really good players in return, Souths need him next year to win the comp so we should be making life hard for them
The telegraph are reporting that Arrow went on a team camp to Coffs Harbour so who knows. Anyway I have never heard of the SMH writer before
The team are in camp in Coffs from Wednesday to Saturday and then have a break till the second week of January
Surely they don’t announce Jai’s leaving while he’s in camp with the boys then. Theres mixed reports because the telegraph said Souths were hoping to hear from Jai on Wednesday but instead he is in camp with the team, and there were quotes from Mal saying they’re confident in keeping him. But then on the same night this bloke is saying that Souths are confident they’re getting him, and we might release him early for another player and cash.
If Souths release Gagai and chip in ~200k of his 700k salary in exchange for Arrow, it wouldn’t be the worst outcome. Not my preferred outcome, but one I could live with.
We just appear to be being played as fools while Souths line up their finances.
I hope like hell that I am wrong. I just think that if he was going to stay wouldn't he have just signed by now. I would expect that he'd be in camp anyway as he is under contract for next season.
This whole situation where blokes that are under contract for 2020 are being involved in contract talks for 2021 is just a cancer on the game. To a degree I can put up with refereeing blunders, players getting in strife etc but I cannot accept the current contract situations.
Last edited by Mexican titan; 19-12-19 at 12:42 PM.
Just read that article. It seems that there is a belief that Arrow will be gone but in some articles it seems like there is a glimmer of hope.
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I see that point too. Like a last camp with the boys type of thing.
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That’s a point I keep coming back to. If he wanted to stay and was offered near enough money then why don’t he just sign already.
One other point in the whole thing is there side deals or allowances being done to include his Girlfriend etc ? Not sure ? Just a thought.
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