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Message: [QUOTE="Foordy, post: 3089096, member: 1769"] I'm not as pissed off as most people on here, because i've always been (and still am) a big fan of Kahu. he offers us good depth across the entire backline, and is a decent back up kicker. He will keep the pressure on the likes of Isaako, Boyd etc, which is only a good thing. people need to put their anger aside for just a second and think logically about things ... here is why we won't be spend any of the money Gillett frees up on Kahu: because the club (Louise in particular) would have been well aware that this clause was in Kahu's release (as foolish as it was to not only release him, but add this clause to his release.), so the money would likely already have been accounted for in next season's cap. Remember Gillett wasn't a planned retirement (and there is still a chance that we need to include his salary in our cap), so had Gillett not retire and Kahu still came back, then we would have been at least 400k over the cap. so until that happened, his salary would have been counted by us, until he signed elsewhere IMO. despite some of our retention and recruitment decisions over the last few years, our BUSINESS PRACTICES are still top notch and up there with the best (if we not #1 we are very close to it) of all sporting clubs in the country. there is no way we allow ourselves to end up 400k over the cap, by simply failing to account for a contract that was a very real possibility of occurring hell maybe that was originally how we planned to get the money for Croft, by Kahu signing a contract with another organisation. Kahu also won't cost us Fifita because he is off contract at the same time (end of 2020) and we can cut Kahu lose if we need his cash. [/QUOTE]

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