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Apparently Manu was offered $800k by the Roosters, and Verblitz deal is $1m+ a year. It also leaves the door open to return to the Roosters half way through 2025 when they have salary cap space.

Just to add to this, the headbutt was assessed in the context of Regulation 17 For the headbut, the judical panel assessed it as lower-end striking. Which means even more mitigation than normal can be applied (how you end up at 2 weeks) In contrast, for McReight, World Rugby have mandated...

Same as us. They have provincial salaries and then some players get a "central" contract as well. In practice, it means Leinster have a much higher salary pool than the rest of the provinces

Six nations is such a river of gold. I wonder if Jordy Barrett's salary by itself will appear as a seperate item on the right?

Tackle school gets you one week extra. So he will effectively miss 2 matches

Doesn't mean that. Just means that there wasn't a recording that picked it up, and whoever else the Super Rugby investigators asked, they didn't hear what was claimed to have been said

I'm going to put my hand up and say I watch no Japanese rugby, and only limited Euro rugby, so don't really think I can do it

Yeah, it's the limit of 3 in the squad that will probably make the bigger difference. Although I think there are probably a half dozen players who currently aren't eligible, who should be in the conversation for a squad spot if we want to put our best team out with no restrictions. Not just...

I think you are reading far too much into what's being done to make sure we are as competitive as possible leading into and then against the Lions next year. A 0-3 rout would be just about lights out, but winning nothing before that series would be just about as bad

Tahs v Reds on 31 May is shaping up to be a massive match if the Reds can't get their season back on track. Last round, might be a playoff for the last finals spot

Alternatively, perhaps the guaranteed payments from RA has meant the players and coaches haven't had to worry about their next paycheck and can focus on their footy

I'm not saying they should pick him, but it would open the door to people like La Rochelle's Kerr Barlow. Guys who are eligible but haven't layed enough in Australia to qualify under current Giteau Law

I think we do compete for props, it's just that a potential rugby prop is often just a RL second rower willing to maintain 130kg.

It's interesting that we have so many relatively good options at 6 for players with body shapes who would probably attract interest from RL, and we don't have anywhere near the same depth at 4+5