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Message: [QUOTE="Locky’s Left Boot, post: 2985905, member: 9358"] Mitch I understand your frustrations and concerns but your looking at this completely wrong. We are not being held to ransom by the younger players. We are paying them enough to keep the circling vultures away from stealing them. Payne Haas for example only got that big contract because we have as a club identified him as a must keep player of the future, especially if the interchanges reduce further to 6, this guy will be worth his weight in gold. So to try and lock him in we would have had to sign him to reasonable money and a long term contract just so that other clubs didn’t line up with both of their kidneys in hand to steal him once he starts playing consistent first grade. It’s not like Payne has come out and bent us over a table and said I want big money or I’m leaving. We would have known how many clubs had their eye on him and we would have jumped in early with a decent offer so that he isn’t tempted to do a TPJ and sign year by year to test his max worth in the player market. If NQ Cowboys had of shown this initiative 2 years ago they’d still have Kalyn Ponga so look at how that worked out for them! Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t but in this day and age, you have to be on the front foot when it comes to future stars who most good judges of talent can see what certain players will become. [/QUOTE]

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