Brisbane Broncos have Walsh on over 1 million, Haas on 1 Million, Carrigan on 850k, Stags on 650k, Cobbo on 700k, Reynolds 600k, Hunt 600k.
Melbourne Have Munster on 1 million, Pappy 1 million, Grant 850k, Coates 650k, Utoikamanu 800k, NAS 750k, etc..
Penrith have Cleary 1.3, Edwards 850k, Yeo, 850k, Too 750k, Tago 700k, Martin 800k, Leota 750k, Papalii 600k, etc
There are many more examples I could use. How do they then manage to add players like Cory Paix, Corey Jensen, Brendan Piakura, Jordan Riki, Billy Walters, Kobe Hetherington, Xavier Willison, Ben Te Kura, Deine Mariner, Jesse Arthurs, even Shibasaki is killing it and Gojetski is playing decent.
How do Penrith keep Garner, Sorenson, Henry, Smith, Kenny etc. Then they identify talent in other teams like Alamoti and Talagi.
I'm sick of hearing the excuses. Other teams manage to do it.
Here's a task. Name one other club who has made more old man signings than us.