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Message: [QUOTE="McHunt, post: 3553778, member: 9853"] [I][B]Badel s[/B]ays the club is preparing a $5m package deal to re-sign Ezra Mam and Reece Walsh, preferably beyond 2027. He is talking about a potential 150% pay rise for Walsh:[/I] [INDENT]"Mam has been valued at around $700,000 a season, while Walsh is in $1 million territory, a figure that would see him become just the third player in Brisbane’s 35-year history to pocket a seven-figure wage."[/INDENT] [I][B]Walters:[/B][/I] [INDENT]“We have kept Payne and I am very confident we can hang onto Walsh and Mam. I accept we can’t keep everyone, but if you keep the nucleus there, that’s always a good thing. We don’t want Reece to become a free agent. He obviously needs a fair upgrade. We’re not stupid at the Broncos, we understand how far he has come in the 12 months, it’s been amazing. It’s the same with Ezra, he has made some really big steps. We’d like to see that progression continue. They are 20 and 21 years old so we need to make sure they are developing and learning as players and more importantly as men. There’s a lot in front of us going into the finals, but we have big plans for Reece and Ezra.”[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]“I knew Reece would be a good player, but he has exceeded where we thought we could get him. Anyone who thought he would be this good would be full of it. ’Greeny’ showed great foresight to pick Reece for Queensland when he was only 18 and he was set to debut before he got injured. Reece Walsh has toughness. You don’t grow up in Nerang being the size that he is without toughness, because you don’t survive in the NRL ... physically and mentally you have to be tough enough to cop the collisions. All the good small players like ‘Alfie’, they learn to play tough or they don’t make it and Reece is the same.”[/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT]“We obviously have plans for Ezra to be here long term. Simon Scanlan and Dave Donaghy are working through that. I know he loves playing here. He has been through our Academy system and then into first grade. So the plan is to keep Ezra, that’s for sure. Mam will be in a maroon jersey for the next few years ... not a green one.”[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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