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JUH, an annoyed Walter and an unhappy BH will help.

He is 29, same as Tracc. Saints are paying some of first 2 years salary. Will be 31 before 3rd season starts, hardly ancient. Hard to get guys to change clubs for a 2 year deal.

Yes. Bet Saints contributing salary too.

Great answer. Will definitely soften the pain a little with contested ball and losing Clarry and Tracc. Will be a major uplift on their culture contribution to and will be a good mentor as well. Ted Lasso and I are happy with this as fans 1 and 2 of the deal and in that order.

Two picks in first round of a stronger draft in 2026 is very good to have. 7-8 this year can give us 2 good kids or one hopefully better kid, if we upgrade for this year. We are adding talent before Tassie kills the 2027 draft.

Same age and size as Tracc.

He has 2 years with Saints at big money. If Saints pay a bit and we give a 3rd year on a performance trigger, you would think he would leave a club that doesn’t want him and go to a club that does want him. We will know soon. Hope we get him.

Very negative Layzie.

Those picks in this draft won’t be used by us probably and are not as good as F1st in 2026 a better draft where we can get another couple of talented youngsters or have ammunition for a trade.

Had a chat with Jack Fitzpatrick on a plane recently. Nice guy.

JUH at Suns and unhappy BH will help.

Well to answer your reasons CJ, 7, 8, F1st can provide pace and talent. Saints will pay some of salary as we wouldn’t pay that much for him. All fits with King coaching.

F1st needs to be 2026 not 2027.

Exactly. Hard body contested ball winner, with great character.

We were right, I followed your lead.

I am worried about the phrase next two years, as 2027 picks are going to close to useless, with Tassie cherry-picking the whole draft that year. Getting good picks next year is what we need, if it is to be future picks as part of the Tracc deal.

Got room for me?

Disagree with the embarrassing part for them. They could easily change the narrative that they are a caring and compassionate club and put their players first, when family situations require assistance. No one blames a club for allowing a player to return home for true family reasons. Players and Managers respect that. This stance to me will scare off potential players and even anger BH team mates and is a culture killer. I would not be shocked if BH is traded to us and not surprised if he isn’t. If they do keep him, I hope it is a culture killer for them and scuttles their year.

You are clearly furious with the Kossie contract that was needed to keep him too.

Well not always, but yes generally that is the fact of the matter. When this is over I think we need to review our whole exit strategies and the way we communicate with players, managers, media and our supporters. Importantly players to be traded and their situations, need to be better managed, in order for us to optimise our returns. At least we are a club that does have compassion for our players and acts in that fashion when required to do so and we should get more credit for that. I am proud that we are a decent and caring club, even though at times it costs us.

I think it’s safe to summarise the Tracc deal as no one on here knows anything and we are all waiting to see what eventuates.

We can probably do that and easier if May leaves. I still think we should have a go at a Giants player, to give Giants salary cap relief so we need to pay less of his contract.

Plus Hayward and Florent.

If we don’t get Humphrey this year we never will.

I believe someone confirmed the offer that was made last year and not Morris. We in hindsight made a big blue. A real big one.