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Message: [QUOTE="GCBRONCO, post: 2705045, member: 1808"] [url=http://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/broncos-v-roosters-sam-thaiday-reveals-he-sacrificed-more-than-500000-to-re-sign-with-brisbane/story-fnp0lyn6-1227537595925]Thaidayâ€™s $500k sacrifice for Broncos[/url] Thaiday has sacrificed more than $500,000 to help the Broncos’ star-studded team strive for multiple premierships. Thaiday revealed he turned his back on bigger offers from rival clubs to re-sign with Brisbane, his sacrifice a great example of the culture building at Red Hill, one that has steered the side to Friday’s preliminary final against the Roosters at Suncorp Stadium. From Darren Lockyer to Shane Webcke to Corey Parker and Justin Hodges, the Broncos have a history of senior stars taking less to keep young guns at the club. It is a credit to the environment the Broncos have created under chief executive Paul White and coach Wayne Bennett that Thaiday — at a younger stage of his career than those players — did the same. The selfless actions of players like Thaiday, Parker and the retiring Hodges means this Broncos team will stay together until the end of 2017 and is primed for an era of great success. Thaiday said he was content to take less to stay a one club player. “It was a sacrifice,” the 30-year-old said. “If that’s what I have to do to stay at this great club that I love then I’m happy to do it. “Hopefully, it will come back tenfold to me when I retire because being a one club player in a one team town is only going to help me after football. “I hope the money is there for me when I retire. “I have a family to think about but sometimes you have to take a pay cut although I wasn’t going to budge any further than this. “I had a figure that would allow me to pay off the house when I’m done with football and that’s all I wanted at the end of day — security. ”Thaiday signed a three-year deal worth around $350,000 a year this month. The $1.05 million dollar deal was $500,000 less than he could have earned at rival clubs. More was on offer if he left to play in England’s Super League. Manly is understood to have been one of the clubs that showed interest in Thaiday but they ultimately signed fellow Maroons back-rower Nate Myles on more than $500,000 a season. “The most frustrating thing about it, not necessarily for me, was friends and family asking every week when am I going to get signed,” Thaiday said. “They would read the papers and see the club was signing a young kid and people would ask if there would be enough money for me. ”Thaiday arrived at the Broncos as a teenager in 2002 and is a chance of winning his second premiership with the club this season after tasting success in 2006 which was his first full season of NRL action. He was singled out for criticism by Bennett early this year after a poor opening game against South Sydney but Thaiday owned the harsh words and never shied away from the fact that he needed to perform better, which he did. “That was just Wayne being Wayne. I copped it on the chin. I just took it and that’s all you can do,” he said. “You can sook and carry on but the best way to move is to get your head down and your bum up and prove everyone wrong.” [/QUOTE]

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