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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3328339, member: 9052"] Not sure... he doesnt seem all that keen to leave SEQ... maybe later down the track he'll up and head to Sydney if he wants to try and win a premiership. I dont really get the impression that he is an SBW type mercenary player, but if he is then he could just easily head to union and keep getting that $1m from the wallabies, French rugby, etc. because he could quite easily dominate that sport... and they are likely to be the only ones who will give him that pay packet. I think there were reports that Souths offered him $1m+ but he rejected it because he didn't want to live in Sydney... that hardly screams mercenary to me. I think this generation of players is influenced by US sports, and most notably NBA, where all the rage is around building super teams. Take "unders" to play in a superstar team or team up with other superstar players to increase your chance of premierships and therefore increase your prestige and brand. In NBA it's reasonably easy because you only have 5 players on the court at any one time, so they look to have 3 superstars and then role players around them. In NRL it's just generally looking across the competition and seeing who is best placed to make a run at the premiership, and then players take unders to stay or go there for a chance to win and be successful. Fifita is a star player and he could go to a roosters, storm, etc. and improve their chances of winning it all, but he's not necessarily the star player that other players would come to his team for, because he's not really the deciding factor in winning or losing. [/QUOTE]

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