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Message: [QUOTE="McHunt, post: 3316871, member: 9853"] Couple of things: First, that WWOS piece was pretty much cribbed from Weidler's column in the SMH, which took what we knew about Payne and his manager from Dobbo and coloured in the background with a reference to what SBW did many years ago when he hit the bigtime: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/broncos-on-edge-as-haas-follows-sbw-s-lead-20210828-p58mrg.html[/URL] Second - stop me if you've heard this before- but journalists don't write the headlines. If your issue with a story is the headline being misleading or "clickbait" you're barking up the wrong tree blaming the author. Someone else wrote that. But wait there's more: Weidler went one further and scavenged a quote from SBW: “There is no question Payne is a forward of the highest class – I don’t know if I have seen a prop do what he does in every facet of the game. And he does it at 21 [years of age]. If you could design a front-rower from scratch, it is him. He should be remunerated at the same level as the highest-paid players in the game and there would be no one who has seen him play who could possibly argue with that.“ Now we all know Weidler loves nothing more than sucking his own ****, but there's nothing particularly scummy in this story. Well nothing we hadn't heard before. [/QUOTE]

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