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Message: [QUOTE="McHunt, post: 3578624, member: 9853"] I'm just making this up, but this is how I see it: [INDENT]1. Kurt has publicly said he wants to remain a "Bronco for life." I see no reason not to believe this. He left the top club in the league to join a basket case with an unproven coach. He was embraced as a leader from the start, and a key part of the "rebuild" phase.[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]2. The "rebuild" phase is well and truly over, with the club now stable and merely needing to hone. Kurt's initial remit has been completed. He is now competing with younger players who are destined to replace him. Part of the honing phase is moving on from him and Adam Reynolds.[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]3. While he still has a year left on his contract, the club will certainly have made him an offer or at least replied to his agent. Whatever offer that was it wasn't enough to secure him on the spot. That's understandable as his value to the club isn't what it was when they poached him from the Panthers. And that's because the club isn't what it was when they poached him from the Panthers.[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]4. His position as a utility player who can cover both centre and forward is still unrivaled but questions have emerged over his defence, and he has been overlooked for Origin. His position as a culture and attitude leader, and vice captain, intrinsic to the rebuild has surely now been supplanted by Patty, and Payne in that order. Walsh, too, offers leadership roaming across his territory. It's not that he's unwanted or unneeded, but the team is no longer so desperately rudderless.[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]5. Offer in hand, Kurt needs to see what else is out there. He will be more valuable to another club in rebuild phase. He has not only won a Grand Final with Penrith, turned in close to MOM performances in Origin at both centre and edge, but has taken Brisbane from the shithouse to the penthouse in only a couple of years. He owes Brisbane nothing. Mission accomplished.[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]6. Flying to NZ, publicly dining with the Warriors coach, touring facilities and leaking that they want him immediately is either a strong bargaining tactic (walking away from the table) or he's been lowballed to the point where the negotiation has broken down. As outsiders it's impossible to tell the difference, but either interpretation checks out.[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] The way I see it, this could go either way. Maybe he will follow Payne and settle for less money. But if I were him, I'd probably go for another club in rebuild. And that does indeed look like the Warriors. [/QUOTE]

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