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Current Olympian and Basketball player Will Magnay is the brother of Campbell Magnay. Been on roster of NBA team, so obviously elite athlete. Was due to play a prominent role at Nudgee rugby team but ended up specializing basketball for obvious reasons.

Or the players go overseas go into a better program that offers elite s&c, tactics, analysis and all round coaching, let alone game time. Then they come back and regress with the facilities, coaching, and because of our limited resources not the same level of conditioning. It was only few years...

Don’t think the NRL cares about these things.

Looks like Force going to have serious competition soon with Perth all but officially announced as NRL team.

No it took several hours for someone to comment on here.

Can see Leota playing some lock as well. Arguably had some of his best games for rebels at lock

That’s what I was getting at by saying complete existing contracts. You just put it in better words.

It is a little concerning these players only signing for a year with pre-existing deals with RA. Think a lot will be heading overseas after 2025 and squads might be weakest has been in pro era

Leota signed a few hours ago and no mention.

Sorry to say girls but that was a choke. Haven’t been good against physical teams or shown they can win when pressure is on for several years.

I’d say half these kids are “public school” kids but were offered scholarships a couple of years ago and finished the last few years at a private school. The same of some kids outside of QLD and NSW, not sure if there are any in this list, but been numerous over the years that move to...

If you want to say that the period between 2011 and 2015 doesn’t count because we can’t measure the full effect of increasing playing numbers (which is strange thinking because why is the depth quality having to disperse into a new team any different to the time period beyond?), if that time...

The reality tho is the Gen Blue team would dust SS teams. The difference is how professional our players are the moment they leave school, it’s half baked here because we don’t have the money to pump into our players at that leave beyond a select few. SS might be the answer in another form but...

I’m not an a league fan (although have once held a membership) but the luxury they have is a transfer market and can easily raise revenue by selling players. One of the players only a few months ago went for $6m Aus, that’s 2 years worth of salary cap. Plus their squads are almost half the size...

Because the contracts are guaranteed under RA agreement with RUPA, it nullifies the argument that RA had their hands tied and couldn’t negotiate earlier with players. They are the arbiters of the rules (salary cap, etc) it’s only there because they say so. They easily could have war gamed this...

Wouldn’t surprise me to see the players union step in soon and we hear about a vote of no confidence in RA and try and force constitutional change or the set up of a completely new union.

Pretty sure Canham is English qualified

100% We cant compare being a professional athlete with the corporate world, they just aren’t comparable. I might not be the worlds best at it, but I could basically guarantee given the resources, education and patience I could just about do any job of anyone on these threads, to a satisfactory...

That’s a line from the revenue, not an EBIT

I have seen these numbers touted before and perhaps some clever accounting at the end of financial year reporting but there is 0 chance they are correct or some favorable reporting where the deal includes lots of contra worth up to that amount. If the Reds were legit getting $6.6m plus the...