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Message: [QUOTE="Kooly87, post: 3225037, member: 9326"] We do make those calls. We make them all the time. How do you think he got his current deal in the first place, by accident? He was already on what would have been at least a 2-3 year deal that he signed as a literal kid in high school that would have taken him up to 19 years old with no one able to talk to him until he was over 18. If what you're arguing is that we should have signed him up longer, then yes, by default you are suggesting we offer enormous long term contracts to children, because no promising 16 year old kid is going to sign a 4+ year deal as a high schooler for peanuts so if you want them locked up that long then you'd need to pay up. We can do that very occasionally for exceptional talent like Haas, but once you're trying to do that several times a year with multiple kids, you wind up with a heap of kids on too much money and maybe one or two that actually cuts it at NRL level. A 16 or 17 year old kid being offered a deal while he's still in school that takes him past his 19th birthday does not sound like an unreasonable deal for either party and I don't see how any reasonable person could see otherwise. [/QUOTE]

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