Wallabies 2021
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Jimmy_Crouch
Ken Catchpole (46)
If it wasn't for the politics and an ankle injury (and the 300 blokes better than me in my position) I would have played a 100 tests
hammertimethere
Trevor Allan (34)
Fucking hell we need some more money don't we
Rebels3
Jim Lenehan (48)
rugboy
Bob Loudon (25)
Outside of Trbojevic, Wright (186cm, 98kg) has all of the other top fullbacks covered for size ie. Tedesco (184cm, 95kg), Ponga (184cm, 92kg), Paenhuyzen (181cm, 84kg), Brimson (181cm, 89kg), Tuivasa Scheck (182cm, 96kg).
Pretty much every NRL winger wants to be signed as a first choice fullback because they get paid substantially more.
Whether or not those offers are on the table is another question.
Whether or not those offers are on the table is another question.
Slim 293
Stirling Mortlock (74)
PhilClinton
Geoff Shaw (53)
Ha - yeh I love this idea that players can just change their position to get more money, especially that all wingers are also fullbacks in waiting.
Played inside center your whole career? Yep you'll be a great 10, they all are!
Ignoto
Greg Davis (50)
Interesting to see everyone latching on to the whole "third in line to the throne" rather than, if this happened to a previous wallaby who would add value to both a Super Rugby team and potentially our Wallabies team, who's to say Johnson isn't doing the same to other fringe players?
Doesn't really paint a great picture for other players considering returning and just wanting to know where they could fit at a national level.
Doesn't really paint a great picture for other players considering returning and just wanting to know where they could fit at a national level.
It was in relation to the article suggesting he could have been a hundred test Wallaby but... It was a pretty big but.
We've only got one side of the story. There were some strange quotes in it. Gill saying it wasn't about money and knew that he would have to take a reduction but then also that obviously money is an issue as a professional.
Maybe those initial conversations suggested that the money was so far apart that it couldn't really go any further with Johnson and RA?
It wouldn't seem unlikely that there would be $0 from RA and Gill's option for a contract was whatever he could get from a Super Rugby side.
There's a big difference between being keen to return to Australian Rugby and being willing to accept $200k or less a year to return to Australian Rugby.
TSR
Mark Ella (57)
I guess the issue though is whether there is any truth that Johnson didn’t follow up on communication.
If Gill was given a figure which wasn’t enough to entice him to the table, or if he gave a figure that was outside RAs appetite, then it is one thing for the discussions to end with both parties knowing they weren’t going to agree to terms. But the tone of the article is that Johnson felt they couldn’t reach agreement so just never furthered the discussions and Gill was left in the dark. That’s poor and it would be a big concern to me if that was how negotiations were being conducted.
Although, of course, we only have one side of the story.
If Gill was given a figure which wasn’t enough to entice him to the table, or if he gave a figure that was outside RAs appetite, then it is one thing for the discussions to end with both parties knowing they weren’t going to agree to terms. But the tone of the article is that Johnson felt they couldn’t reach agreement so just never furthered the discussions and Gill was left in the dark. That’s poor and it would be a big concern to me if that was how negotiations were being conducted.
Although, of course, we only have one side of the story.
Jimmy_Crouch
Ken Catchpole (46)
Second sob article in two weeks from a NewStar (Piccone) athlete saying that they wanted to come home/play for the Wallabies but it is RA's fault they are not. It is part of their campaign.
Think about when this occurred. It would have been April/May/June last year. Can't imagine RA or Scott Johnson was too pumped with what just happened with three other NewStar athletes (Rodda, Lucas & Hockings).
Think about when this occurred. It would have been April/May/June last year. Can't imagine RA or Scott Johnson was too pumped with what just happened with three other NewStar athletes (Rodda, Lucas & Hockings).
this nails it.
