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Reds 2020

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Desmond Connor (43)
Lots of questions today. What’s the story behind Alex Horan heading off to Japan? Did QRU not have a place for him? How does he compare to Campbell at fullback?
 
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Jim Lenehan (48)
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Is the salary cap $5.5M for the squad (30+) including development players?
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Yes, I believe the $5.5mil cap is still in affect this year same as last. Where it all goes out the door is with the RA/Wallaby top ups etc.

For next year however I'm not sure anything has been communicated. Might depend on getting a certain broadcast deal sorted first :)
 
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Phil Kearns (64)
Roberts Rugby said:
Lots of questions today. What’s the story behind Alex Horan heading off to Japan? Did QRU not have a place for him? How does he compare to Campbell at fullback?
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Not sure exactly but think he was basically WTS for the reds. Heading to the sunwolves means he'll get game time and time as a full-time pro. Depending on how he goes might come back into the reds squad next year.
 
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Andrew Slack (58)
Guys - you need to avoid posting discussions which include the results of other games in non-match threads for 24 hours at least to give people a chance to watch them on replay without finding the score.
 
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Tim Horan (67)
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Guys - you need to avoid posting discussions which include the results of other games in non-match threads for 24 hours at least to give people a chance to watch them on replay without finding the score.
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Sorry. Deleted now but obviously too late.
 
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Peter Johnson (47)
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Is the salary cap $5.5M for the squad (30+) including development players?
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Also remember that even for developing players (mainly our U20 guys that have signed long term deals) that they benefit from RA money from a 'war chest' designed to hold onto young talent. So Reds seriously benefited from that in addition to top players whose salary is also shared with RA 'top up' money.
 
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Desmond Connor (43)
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Only 2 years - 2021 & 22. Assume he'll get extended to the WC and beyond if he does well.

Reds aren't picking up the whole package.
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That’s more than Quade was on. Let’s hope he finds that white line more often than not. I hope the Reds still have some money left for a few of these young guns moving forward.
 
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Desmond Connor (43)
Been watching him for a few years now and I see something in him that I don’t see in a lot of rugby players. Picone is his manager so I hope that Cordingley is right on top of that one.
 
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Desmond Connor (43)
Adam84 said:
7 of the match day 23 are signed through to 2023, the only players in the match day 23 not signed beyond 2020 are:
-JP Smith
-Hockings
-Paisami
-CFS
-Ed Craig
-J Nasser
-S. Malolua

I'd say they've done a good job locking up the young guns thus far..
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Still need dollars to secure all of these players too.
 
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Rod McCall (65)
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Still need dollars to secure all of these players too.
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thats if they want to secure all those players.

Ed Craig is only there for injury cover, CFS could be replaced by Vunivalu, Maloula is capped for Samoa so shouldn't t be in the squad anyway IMO. Jury is still out on Nasser.

Paisami, Hocking and JP Smith are the 3 which need to be kept, with JP Smith the most important out of the 3.
 
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David Wilson (68)
Adam84 said:
thats if they want to secure all those players.

Ed Craig is only there for injury cover, CFS could be replaced by Vunivalu, Maloula is capped for Samoa so shouldn't t be in the squad anyway IMO. Jury is still out on Nasser.

Paisami, Hocking and JP Smith are the 3 which need to be kept, with JP Smith the most important out of the 3.
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Yes, yes, and yes.
 
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Reds second half performances are worrying, and the 'young guns' are starting to feel the heat big time. With the prospect of a likely loss against the Crusaders next week, how long before the blowtorch is applied to Brad Thorn's reign? I'd suspect he's on shaky ground.
 
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Desmond Connor (43)
Adam84 said:
thats if they want to secure all those players.

Ed Craig is only there for injury cover, CFS could be replaced by Vunivalu, Maloula is capped for Samoa so shouldn't t be in the squad anyway IMO. Jury is still out on Nasser.

Paisami, Hocking and JP Smith are the 3 which need to be kept, with JP Smith the most important out of the 3.
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Totally agree. Other than the obvious 3, we still need to replace the outgoing. If we want to win games those replacements will come at a much higher price tag. There’s a fine line between depth in a team, salary caps and retention of players who want to start every week.
Rotation / resting players is smart coaching, but this needs to be executed with precision. At this point our prop and halves depth doesn’t allow for a seamless rotation. The coaches are bringing a substandard bench on at critical points of the game, and evidently it all goes down hill.
I only watched snippets of last nights game and waiting for the replay, but reading the match thread I am filthy at some poor decisions.
 
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