I see the “expert” journos have us way over the cap this year 
I think this would be more accurate (and I don’t have any inside knowledge):
Edwards $700K
Turuva $180K
Chricton $650K
Tago $400K
To’o $600K
Luai $720k
Cleary $1.2M
JFH $800K
Kenny $350K
Leota $550K
Martin $500K
Garner $250K
Yeo $850K
Luke $120K
Leniu $400K
Sorensen $300K
Salmon $180k
May $350K
Others $1.8M
Total:
$10.9M
Might still be way off on a couple too.
The bargain there is Moses if 550 is real!
Dyl you could argue is probs worth 800 also
I believe most of these values are over estimates, in attempt to encourage our top 17 to test their value on the market and leave Penrith.
A contemptuous attempt to destabilize our team.
Spencer chasing the money - well as much as he has showed promise, never really kicked on. I see much more promise in Lindsay Smith
Shame about losing another and how the others appear to be simply picking us off one by one…doesnt say much about loyalty does it?
although you can’t blame them from chasing megabucks.
wonder who will be next?
Playing the “loyalty” card is a low blow. I don’t blame Leniu at all. He’s played in the last 2 Grand Final winning teams, played for Samoa in the World Cup, and is stuck behind Fish & Leota, so he currently plays about 20 mins a game. He’s 22 & nowhere near his peak, why wouldn’t he take a higher offer from a likely premiership contender like the Roosters?
Having said that, I’m gutted we’re losing him. I’ve said how good I think he is on this forum for a couple of years.
Good luck to Leniu. I hope he gives us his best this year, I’m sure he will. And hope our production line of young talent continues to flourish.
Fact of life - the more successful we are the more we get plundered. Hopefully the junior production line continues to flourish.
What a refreshing attitude. Such a contrast to those other players who just seem to chase dollars, and who exhibit little of the loyalty of the fan base. I’m never impressed with commentary to the effect that players are entitled to earn as much as they can in the small window of a RL career, when those same players earn as much in that ‘short career’ as most fans do in a lifetime - and then they have an extraordinary financial start to the rest of their life. It’s a pity that the NRL doesn’t provide salary cap dispensation for one-club players after, say, 8-10 years.
There is a long-serving player allowance set at $250,000 per club per year for players who have played for the same club in 8 or more successive seasons.
Isaah Yeo was eligible to receive part or all of this from 2022 onwards.
Thanks, Steve. That’s good to know.
@SteveTidball is that only 1st grade or does it start if they are in SG Ball??
I remember a big who har when Sam McKendry got it, or is that when it was implemented??
First grade Kev.
Sam McKendry got it for the last few seasons at Penrith, I believe at the time he was the only player in the Penrith First Grade squad who qualified.
If I remember correctly there was discussions within the ARLC during the last Player EBA to raise the limit to $300,000.
Personally what I would rather see is when a transfer of a club junior to another club happens, it results in a ‘transfer fee’ which would not require another club to pay but rather as a cap exemption for the club of which the player is being transferred from.
Say a Panthers junior is signed by the Dolphins for $450,000. The NRL would grant the Panthers a 10% transfer fee ($45,000) in the form of a salary cap exemption, of which it can use to retain one of their first grade players. I feel this would get other clubs more involved in developing juniors, and would be good for growing the game (especially if we a looking at expanding to a 20 team comp in the future.)
That’s innovative thinking, Steve. Is it in the minds of the NRL?
Not a bad idea Steve.
I think there should be an automatic concession for local juniors/developed players when they earn a top 30 contract. Either a flat 10% for anyone who played HM, SG and/or JF at the club (without leaving) or maybe a sliding scale depending on how many of those grades they played. For example: 3% for 1 grade, 6% for 2 grades, 10% for all 3 grades.
Best case scenario, a club that is stacked with players they developed would get an extra 10% to keep those players at the club.
If we add Steve’s idea of transfer fees on top, a club like ours could end up in a very strong position to keep the players they want to.
But of course if such progressive, fair initiatives like these were ever enacted, the Easts Rorters would have their fingerprints all over the details, and somehow they’d manage to come up smelling of roses as a prime development club - and we’d be somewhere down the list.
I’d take it a step further and allocate a % to the junior club that developed them for the Panthers etc. imagine our junior base if they were financially benefitting from all their hard work, how many local juniors are playing 1sts at other clubs right now, and which local teams do they come from??
It would be an interesting exercise to go through & see how many players we have developed.
When I was watching the recent Bulldogs v Tigers game I remember thinking that around a third of the players on the field were developed by us!!!
You could probably field a competitive NRL side comprising ex-Penrith juniors, and it wouldn’t be the first time.
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