Ron E. Gibbs
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Yes, the old classic difference between putting a ring on it and sticking a d**k in it.
Move Heaven and Earth...
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Look. It was a simple stumble and something ended up somewhere it shouldn't. Wife, girlfriend,plastic blow up doll it's all sorta the same. Just inches of difference.
JakeyB789
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Fun fact: May had more offloads this year than Paseka, Aloiai, Jurbo, Brown, Bullemor, Sipley and Lodge did COMBINED. He is the actual definition of what we need - a mobile prop that can play big minutes and move the ball around, similar to what we had with AFB. He's the exact type of prop we need to partner Paseka and having him would allow Nella to go to another level IMO.
I also know we have no chance of getting him anyway as we tend to favour washed up vets that no one else wants, but laughable that some would turn down a player we would desperately need because of off-field concerns - which extend to allegedly getting caught doing rack (not exactly unique in the NRL), and having 2 absolute dead****s for brothers. For mine there is only a small handful of players in our squad I'd keep in favour of May, so yes I would be moving heaven and earth to bring him in, if it was at all possible.
I also know we have no chance of getting him anyway as we tend to favour washed up vets that no one else wants, but laughable that some would turn down a player we would desperately need because of off-field concerns - which extend to allegedly getting caught doing rack (not exactly unique in the NRL), and having 2 absolute dead****s for brothers. For mine there is only a small handful of players in our squad I'd keep in favour of May, so yes I would be moving heaven and earth to bring him in, if it was at all possible.
It is comedy gold like this that makes me spend so much time here!! Thanks @Ron E. Gibbs !
Terrell May played every game last season. So why are the Roosters showing him the door?
“What’s happened?”
Along with the rest of rugby league, Terrell May was asking himself that very question when the news came down the line on Thursday afternoon.
The Roosters prop has been told he is free to leave the club immediately, just six months after signing a two-year extension that more than doubled his salary.
As one of the most improved players in the NRL and a 25-year-old prop in a market short on quality front-rowers, May will attract plenty of interest. But on Friday, club officials throughout the league were asking what had prompted the Roosters to offer their player the chance to seek a deal elsewhere.
As reported by this masthead on Thursday when it broke the news of Trent Robinson’s call to May, there is an element within the Roosters that feels May doesn’t fit into the club’s vision of where it wants to go.
The context of that is two-fold: one is a matter of freeing up salary cap space to enter a volatile player market, the other a 2024 post-mortem in which every aspect of the club went under the microscope.
The implication of the latter is one May and his manager David Rawlings are at pains to dismiss as merely rugby league’s rumour mill does what it does worst – speculates until it is foaming at the mouth.
“The club indicated to us [that] they had depth in that position and they were looking at a different position of player, so we could explore our options in the market,” Rawlings told this masthead.
“There is no more to it. He had a great season, was on the cusp of an Origin debut, is currently in the UK representing Samoa and voted by his NRL peers into the RLPA team of the year. He is in the top echelon of middle forwards, so there will be no shortage of options.”
May was rocked by Robinson’s call, and many have asked why the Roosters couldn’t have broken the news in person when he returns to Sydney early next week. Robinson is currently overseas, too.
Roosters sources speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the situation have insisted Robinson did not hold any concerns over May’s ability to fit into his team or club culture.
The coach wouldn’t have played him in all 27 games this season – the only Roosters player to do so – if he did.
But Robinson has also been known to make a tough, ruthless call or two in his time, most notably the Cooper Cronk signing that sent favourite son Mitchell Pearce to Newcastle and helped deliver the Roosters their last premierships.
The private belief is that May is close to his playing ceiling, and that bringing through the next crop of young middles – led by highly rated 19-year-olds De La Salle Va’a and Blake Steep, as well as Va’a’s brother, Xavier – is the shrewd salary cap move.
Especially given Spencer Leniu and Lindsay Collins are already signed long-term, with both their salaries due to increase next year.
May’s two-year extension means he was due to earn around $950,000 over 2025 and 2026, with a car also included in the deal under NRL salary cap regulations.
As for where he lands, clubs in the market for middle forwards like Canterbury, the Tigers and Dragons will do extensive diligence given the Roosters’ surprise move.
The Bulldogs were in discussions with May for several months last year but grew frustrated with negotiations to the point they pulled a three-year offer, before eventually re-starting talks again.
At the time, May and his brothers, Tyrone and Taylan, spoke publicly of wanting to play NRL together, a prospect several clubs blanched at given well-documented off-field incidents involving Tyrone and Taylan.
The middle May brother has a blemishless record, and multiple Roosters sources have insisted there is no off-field drama behind him being given permission to leave early.
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May does not drink, still lives in western Sydney and, as the Roosters have found, is cut from a different cloth to most rugby league players.
Privately, some Roosters figures have wondered whether May truly embraced life at the club, given he has been absent from several functions this season, albeit with extenuating circumstances.
Media access to the rising prop has been rare, but when he has spoken publicly, May has been remarkably candid.
When he sat down with the Herald during the Roosters’ finals campaign, he detailed a complicated relationship with the game that belied his career-best form this year.
“Sometimes I just get, ‘I don’t want to be there and don’t want to play’,” May said in September, referring to the two previous occasions he gave up on playing NRL, when he was 18 and 20.
“It’s a weird feeling. I don’t think many people experience it where one week they love the game and go on the TV screens and the next week they don’t want to be there at all.
“Sometimes I just feel I could quit, like in a day. It sounds a bit weird, but I get those thoughts sometimes where I’m just like, ‘Is this really for me?’ I’m very grateful to be where I am and play with the Roosters, but rugby league isn’t the whole of me.
“Then you just look at the bigger picture. You need to support your family and I couldn’t do it without footy. I have aspirations to take the club to the GF and to play for NSW.”
The bigger picture May spoke of then is a fascinating one now, for both he and the Roosters.
And the question of “what’s happened?” for one of the NRL’s rising stars and its most glamorous clubs swings the rumour mill into overdrive again with another.
“What happens next?”
Rooster booster?
Did I wake up today thinking I'd see that in a sentence on here? No, no I did not.
Once again, silvertails does not let me down. 😂
By “blemishless” I assume the esteemed journo means unblemished.
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Happens to the best of us.
Should of traded Jake for him
frank stokes
I discriminate indiscriminately
I figure you are being tongue-in-cheek (well, at least partly I imagine) but...
I could never suppport trading Jake as he just "a really, really nice guy, you know?"
But, even if I could and we are being serious, forwards are not an issue for the rorters...they have so much depth its frightening (and a major factor in May becoming available)
I've been following this and can't believe the salary cap pickle we are in. To think we have let guys go and can sign no one is madness with the salary cap rising. A back must be cut, too many dollars there with Tom, Saab, Garrick, Koula, Talau and now Lehi arrived. Brooks and DCE on big dough. Roosters are smart,May is brilliant but stopping the kids coming through. We have no left 2nd row still, and too many slow cumbersome forwards. Josh on big money is sheer madness, Jake now too. Croker is poor. I think we will struggle next year to be honest as teams get better.
The Aloiai extension has to be the most puzzling decision. Just crazy to sew up so much of the cap on a prop that wouldn’t crack a starting side in any other team in the comp.
We would have had an extra $600k to splash in the market.
The only reason I see why we did this is that he signed on a massively discounted rate and to also mentor the young bull we have coming through.
I really hope we extended him on no more than $400k.
Rocky
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The best clucb are proactive - totally agree we need to move on either Saab, Garrick or Koula...hard because i like them all.... but one needs to go if we are serious in strengthening the forward pack.
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