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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2928787, member: 8215"] Watching the Eels struggle without Radradra, and similarly, watching us when Oates is not there, it highlights the positives of having a fast, genuinely powerful, and safe winger that can still score freakish tries. There aren’t any others who can match what he brings. Wingers, even elite ones, have a comparatively low pay rate simply because you can get a decent rookie to do a relatively simple role for cheap. Even rep wingers, like Holmes, Gagai, Mansour, do an excellent job every week, but it’s still a quite simple job. Oates’ ability offers more than just that simple role. His size, strength, reach, speed, safety, and evasiveness give us advantages that no other team can claim. Being able to use him as a finisher as well as a bulldozing metre-eater makes him just as, if not more, valuable than if he were playing as a back-rower. It’s for those reasons that the normal pay ceiling for a winger shouldn’t apply to him. Give him $700k. $750k. $800k. But keep him on the wing. [/QUOTE]

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