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Message: [QUOTE="Hamm.0, post: 2114886, member: 1852"] Correct. If the player is a mediocre player....like Gower and Ronney are. (Let's face facts, neither were ever going to play rep football again...EVER) The option is viable. HOWEVER, if you are Peter Wallace, one Origin series (well, half a series) and in a successful team, all the ground work being laid to become something special, then the option isn't viable at all. You think Lockyer, Johns, C. Smith, SBW all make just their $300k(+) a year? The sponsership factor is huge mate. In France, how many people would know Gower's name, considering he hasn't even been able to hold down the First XV spot for his club?? His income, whilst still excellent and beyond all dreams, is exactly how his current club dictates it. I understand what you are saying and I agree to some extant that the salary cap does need to be increased (not overnight, however that's another whole arguement), but the players with the great potential will stay. You reckon Lote is happy in Yawnion? I mean, from everything you hear he doesn't seem content. As a young footballer, playing rep is non-existent if you go to Europe. That right there is enough to stop the potential elites. Either way, time will tell, just like the mass-hysteria about Union taking all our players, which fizzled as quick as it cam, if 10-20 respected players swoon to France, i'll stad corrected, until then, I stand by what I have rambled^ [icon_wink [/QUOTE]

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