11 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Agree with this.

Unfortunately the "unofficial" announcement didn't draw any takers a few weeks back but with the right salary subsidy we might get some interest.

Bulldogs would be mad not to take him at the right price.

Amazing how quickly he lost touch

Any one of Norf, Bulldogs and it might surprise you the filth will be interested.

Steven May 💙❤️🏆

Thanks but time for a fresh start

Just now, Lucifers Hero said:

Hunter 'retired' vs 'delisted' is semantics to manage the optics and save face for Hunter.

I don't think May will be delisted either; I was simply answering the question about whether it is possible.

Yes it was optics, but the differences was that Hunter had no suitors and did actually retire.

Hence we never announced publicly that he’s been told to go elsewhere.

We wouldn’t be doing this public announcement via the media if we didn’t think May had somewhere to go

2 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Petty down back.... AT LAST

Petty, Disco and Derksen/Adams/Howes/McDonald

24 minutes ago, Deez21 said:

https://x.com/FootyonNine/status/1968468606921945449

Tick

Well done on calling it early. Will be good for the club.

14 minutes ago, Tracca said:

Howes

Adams

Absolute rubbish as usual, contracted player, up to the club to find a new home, not the player…..

Despite his obvious drop in form I do have a slight concern that we don’t have any other big bodied defenders. Turner and McDonald can hold their own but I don’t back Lever, Howes or Adams (yet) to win 1v1’s consistently - Derksen, if we do land him is an unknown. Although big bodied forwards aren’t as prominent as they once were it’s still something our recruiters should be cognisant of imo.

I’d also prefer to see Howes play up the ground and move Petty back anyway so maybe I raise a moot point..

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3 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

Well done on calling it early. Will be good for the club.

Agreed,

Was worth it for the flag, it's been downhill since then. Melksham, Gawn etc

21 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

had to happen

thanks for the flag

but his behaviour has stunk for some time

Thanks Steve glad I high five you at last training session Hope you find new club to see out contract Thanks for your major part in premiership Love ya always

Perhaps a farewell dinner at Entrecote ??

It’s a shame that we won’t get a chance to give him a send off. More likely that he’ll start an in game fight with us next year and become the villain!

Will always love him though.

I thought he had a very up and down year. Some games he seemed like the May that was so important in 2021, others times he seemed totally out of sync with the game. Whether it was who he was playing with (very few games with Lever this season), carrying an injury, lack of full engagement/concentration, whatever, but something was off.

I think in the right environment at a new club he still has a couple of strong seasons in him and I think he's worth a late 2nd round, early 3rd round pick. North especially seems to be crying out for a strong defender.

Look he was phenomenal for us when we got him , 21 was huge but this season was terrible for him & he became to undisciplined.

Maybe king has better ideas for our backline.

Put turner has turned into a pretty handy defender.

At least we'll know where the balls going to go when he kicks out from defence when we play against him. We'll just go straight to the opposition ruckman

May was outstanding from 2020 - 2023, and I'm very glad he played in 100 games and a premiership for the club.

He is definitely not the future and we need to get games into our next 8-10 year defenders, so this is the right call.

wtf

Hard to replace. Petty plays down back.

Not the most popular player with his team mates.

But thankyou and good luck.

His service got us a flag. The reality is we need to upskill the next gen. So his opportunities like Tmac was told would be less. So finishing off T another club will give him more game time, which is what he would want

40 minutes ago, david_neitz_is_my_dad said:

Cant be surprised, was a road cone on defence in 2025

He’s easily the best full back I’ve seen play for the club. Time caught up with him this year as it does with everyone.

Outstanding contribution to this club over the journey. He’ll be fondly remembered as a premiership hero.

Best of luck Maysey

Another tick for our amazing list management team gifting him an extra year last year when his head was turned by Carlton. Bet we end up paying a chunk of his contract now.

He has his fair share of blame spilling marks whenever he has to sit under one and lax defensive transition. Glad to move on from that.

But I’ll actually miss him barking orders, especially when he was the only one mad enough to have a dip at the captain.

So we are starting to see what the King and Guerra blueprint is. Get rid of the NQR's and disruptors. Now remains to be seen what Petracca decides to do. King wants him, does he want us? Liking this.

And Charley Curnow will be happy with this news. Maysey towelled him up on a regular basis

come what May?

We've certainly got the best years of his career. Loved his efforts, passion and relentless desire to win. I do fear the years are catching up. Wish him well where ever.

Thanks for the Flag mate. Always a🏆❤️💙 Dee.

I sense he can be a little polarising. I have empathy for that !! 🤔😆😆

As a club we appear to have pulled the trigger on turning a corner. Much change in the winds. Will we pull the Lever too ? 🤔

As oft quoted... "there comes a time"

Cheers Steve , go well.

Thanks for everything Maysie. Was a great pick up, helped set standards and a massive part of our flag success.

I’m shocked not because I think it’s the wrong decision but because it shows a ruthless streak we have been lacking recently.

I wonder does it mean we have another tall lined up other than Derksen?!

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