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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3688466, member: 1899"] I addressed this in the second part of my post. 'But they didn't want to keep those players!!' Firstly, it doesn't denote value. Secondly, we've established it was a flawed premise to begin with and they in fact lost valuable players. Also come on now what? Tariq Sims played Origin the year he signed with Melbourne. They're the type of players who were either on solid money or were likely prospects but Melbourne didn't get carried away like other clubs would. I don't recall Katoa being in high demand. He was under contract with the Warriors when he sought a release. It wasn't like he was an international superstar when he joined Melbourne, just a promising rookie who didn't live up to the initial hype. Melbourne went ahead and re-signed mid-way through '23 so I can't see him earning as much money as he possibly can. I'd wager that Melbourne saved some cap space on the Olam-Blore trade. Olam re-signed with Melbourne in '22 when he was one of the best centres in the game. I'm pretty sure Blore had only just re-signed with the Tigers late in '23 and was close to getting squeezed out at the club. When he went to the Tigers there was plenty of hype surrounding him but after a couple of injuries he re-signed and was still a fringe first grader. So I'd stick with Coates and Utoikamanu as their only notable signings currently on the roster. That gives them one-up on Penrith heading into '25 and Penrith are due to hit the market. Worth noting with Crocker that was in 2006 after Melbourne had lost Orford, Bell and Kearns. Nobody at the time thought there was anything suss about the signing and didn't detect anything until 2008. Their most high profile signing around this time was Brett Finch and I don't think anyone was crying a foul about that. [/QUOTE]

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