Come on home, Sonny

Fair comment. :thumbup:

By that rationale wouldn’t that player sbw cycles out go into the dogs or warriors? Or are you saying they likely aren’t good enough to make the squad of the worst team in the comp? In each of your examples there are still players who won’t play which presumably is how a professional sports career ends. As to who gets sacked? Not sure, but welcome to professional sport. It’s why I don’t think payers owe their clubs anything either.

How would it crush a career at the Roosters but be some magnanimous act elsewhere. Easy, Warriors are taking loan players they are so short of cattle, there'd be no issues or people aside for SBW to go in. Dogs have just lost a person in their pack - nobody put out. Dragons have a spot with Jack forced on the sideline (though I don't want him there). Just 3 examples without looking hard of where he could go with no roster drama. Roosters full, no roster room, who gets sacked?

How would it crush a career at the Roosters but be some magnanimous act elsewhere. Either way someone is pushed out, you'd think the guy struggling to get a game at Canterbury is more likely crushed than one at a top 8 team. As for it demonstrating not being sure they'll can win what utter nonsense. Teams make moves to improve all the time, you'd need to be next level incompetent to not do so when given the opportunity. Given no one is 100% certain you take every opportunity to improve that you can.

Just a tip... If you want to sell your imaginative tale about your 'history' and vintage, best not write and debate like a Gen Z/post millennial. Bit of a 'give-away'.

Sonny Will Billions.

You still dont get it, Bennett identified his weekness in that Saints team and went out and purchased the answer mid season. They won the comp and next season Gasnier hangs up his boots at only 30 yrs of age. Gasnier was never going to play out his contract of 4 1/2 years He just blew in like it has been happening for years with every club. Remember the English short term blowins in the 80's? Martin Offiah was a classic case. Almost as good as Gasnier' s case. Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha

You still don't get it so you never will. Someone leaving their gig and signing back to commit long term will never be the same as some fly in fly out who's gig is on a break. That's a money only merc. And you sure don't write like someone from that era.. maybe my error, but not an issue either way.

Roosters are 400k under the cap, got a discount with season ending injuries to Smith and will get some discount with Radley and Verrills plus Sony is only playing for less than 8 games at the most. He will be lucky to be paid 200k.

Yes he signed for the remaining half year of 2010 to claim a premiership in that 4 and a half year contract. Which means I'm correct because he signed mid season with Saints who were already on top of the comp. So he signed mid season at the end of his career and retired at the end of 2011 with 3 years of his contract remaining. Thats a blowin in my book for a premiership. I was around supporting Glebe before we got booted out in 1929. Soufths and Balmain wanted to steal our juniors, then in the 1950's Souths stole a large chunk of the Roosters (Tri Colours) juniors. I was born in 1921 when North Sydney won their 1st and 2nd last premiership. They won the year after also

You need to update your material. Gasnier didn't come over as a short term merc, read your own cut out he signed a ​4 1⁄2-year deal he came back to be with the club, not a temporary sombrero fill-in. And you overshot your 100 years by heaps.

Why? If SBW wants to play for the Roosters, then he plays for the Roosters. You've heard of the salary cap right? You know that thing that the 15 other clubs adhere to? Oh wait, of course YOU haven't uncle Nick.

Of course it is. The salary sombrero hides a ton at the Roosters.

It's as much chance as the Roosters signing me

Not true mate, do your home work Gasnier was lured back just before the cut off mid season like this SBW situation. Soar losers only come up with refs helping out the eventual premiers. Here is a snippet from wikipedia.....Return to rugby league... It was announced in June 2010 that Gasnier was intending to return to rugby league following the expiration of his rugby union contract. This was confirmed when he signed a ​4 1⁄2-year deal with former club St George Illawarra. Please note that it was Just before the June 30 cut off. Any more facts you would like to know? Feel free to ask old Woody. Ive been around for a hundred years sonny.

Gasnier wasn't a johnny-come-lately merc. He returned for permanent, not just a few weeks at the expense of someone. You going to axe some injured bloke for a few months, then re-sign him 2021? ha ha ha.. that's sombreo talk... Also, refs and officials did more for chooks last 2 premierships than swapping Cronk for Pearce, Pearce still led chooks to semis almost every year.

First of all the Roosters are in the business of winning comps. Hence letting Pearce go for Cronk. Which proved very wise. Secondly the Roosters have lost three players for the year with knee injuries and are under the cap plus are entitled to a further reduction in the cap due to those injuries. Thirdly this behaviour has been going on for decades, Gasnier to Saints in 2010 is your evidence.

SBWHO

Because, if you aren't going to be selfish and thoughtless about this, you'd realise what a can of worms this would open. Clubs could go through the year, doing all the hard work off their regulars, the back bone of the club, get into the 8. Then sack a bunch of guys who had put their heart and soul into the club to get them there and replace them with a few fit and undamaged mercenaries for the semis. To fit in SBW for a few weeks, chooks are full and will have to axe someone. Who do you pick? Who's career will you crush just to get a merc for a few weeks? The fact that you are thinking about it shows that you aren't sure they can win with who they have already.

Why? If SBW wants to play for the Roosters, then he plays for the Roosters. He is not a charity worker for the useless. If he was wanting to play for a dud club. He would nominate Soufths. But he wants to play for trophies.