Agree that the Roosters are obviously concerned about something, or multiple things. But he has improved dramatically over the last few seasons and we are in desperate need of grunt in the pack. And we did manage to find room in our hearts (and salary cap) for AFB, who had issues of his own and I would take back in a heartbeat.
I know where you're coming from but the part that concerns me is there's no public reporting of any misdemeanours from Terrell. Players usually get sacked and/or released when trouble goes 'public' and it's usually PR damage control. Another club swoops in the name of reformation and we move on. That hasn't happened in this instance, meaning the Roosters are free to keep him without it adversely impacting their brand. Thus, the fact they want to move him on regardless, alarms me.
Makes sense … he has ‘been in the sack’ …. Not ‘being sacked’
That was a surprise to me. I thought he was the "good May". Nice of the Roosters to wait till he’s in the UK playing for Samoa to drop that news. There’s got to be more to it. He’s been playing better each time I’ve seen him. I reckon Gus will have him at the Dogs.
There are some alternatives there though to free up some coin to strengthen the middle and edge forward roles, have got good quality and depth with the 3/4 line and some promising talent coming through there.
I agree with Alioia the last deal he was on 600K a season, it makes that 475K May was getting at the Rorters looking like a tremendous bargain, though we do need some depth with the middles.
Could be as simple as a personality clash... maybe he had a falling out with Angus or Sam or one of the senior players at the club... maybe the rorters are freeing up coin for Hunt or Paps (or both, they would defs have the cap space 🙄) who knows?? what I do know is he is the best prop to ACTUALLY come onto the market in forever and an opportunity like this does not present itself often... not that it matters if we cannot even afford Bateman... 😪
If that is the standard then we need to put Lehi on the market real quick plus Guac was (is?) Manase-the-knife's best friend so he needs to go... and then there is Lodge - well, I dont need to tell you about his record @Kiwi Eagle lol...
Go back a few months, and we saw the brain capacity of the bloke when he and a few others were involved in a social media livestream, hinting that they were on some gear during it
Brandon Smith, Latrell Mitchell, Kalyn Ponga... all more senior than Terrell and you cannot tell me that they are not worth an NRL contract because they were partying one night and someone pulled out a camera?
Chooks have just lost JWH and Tupounuia, but suddenly don't need a 24yo prop who played every game this year, plays extremely long minutes (average 45, played 80 min in one game!) 97.8% tackle efficiency, plus 40 offloads ... and is only on $450K... yep, nothing to see here.
Well played SER8...
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