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Message: [QUOTE="Kooly87, post: 3105001, member: 9326"] Well the Smith deal is obviously huge, he's amongst the highest paid, if not THE highest paid, player in the game. Munster's most recent deal was reported at $3.6 million over 4 years, so he's on big money as well. Bromwich's last contract came in 2017 when he was still a Rep player and probably their best Forward so you could assume that was good money too. Addo-Carr is also staying put at this point, so you can add his no doubt pretty solid contract to their number this year too. They also had to upgrade Papenhuyzen to retain him amongst a heap of interest from elsewhere, so I doubt that came cheap. Then you've got the same problem that most successful teams have where regular squad players just gradually bracket creep and increase in price: Finucane who broke into the Origin squad, K.Bromwich and Brandon Smith who both broke into the Kiwis setup (Smith had to be upgraded in 2019) Jahrome Hughes re-signed in 2018 as the replacement for Slater so that would have cost them too. I actually think this year they'ye having the same moment we had coming into 2019 where we just had so many guys who had been around a while and had just gradually increased in price and needed to be cleaned out and replaced by younger, cheaper guys who could provide a similar output. The only real difference is they've been to recent Grand Finals and we've just scraped into the Top 8. [/QUOTE]

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