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If you speak game-breaking fullbacks, the 4 who come to thoughts right away are James Tedesco, Tom Trbojevic, Ryan Papenhuyzen and Latrell Mitchell.

Who of their proper thoughts thinks any of these 4 will probably be in blue and gold anytime quickly?

Reece Walsh has been excellent this 12 months, however I am going to have to see that stage of play from him over an extended time period earlier than I put him in the identical bracket because the 4 I discussed, and naturally we do not know but what the long run holds for Kalyn Ponga.

Roger Tuivasa-Sheck can be an possibility, however apparently that is already been knocked on the top, as a result of he can earn $1 million for a 16-week season in Japan. Good luck to him if that is the case! 

Whereas I haven’t got Clint Gutherson within the completely elite class with the highest 4, I am going to inform you what, he is not all that far behind. He is within the second tier of very, superb gamers. 

Gutherson is a whole-hearted participant who offers 100 per cent. He is the captain, he is an excellent chief, and he is just about the guts and soul of that staff, which makes this much more baffling.

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Mitchell Moses is supposedly getting $1.2 million a season on his new deal, and I am nice with that, since you’re value no matter somebody is keen to pay. It is skilled sport, you earn as a lot cash as you presumably can.

However Clint Gutherson nearly single-handedly stored Parramatta afloat in these first three matches, and he is incomes about $850,000 a 12 months, though hopefully he has a clause that offers him a rise when the wage cap goes up.

Moses is supposedly getting $350,000 a 12 months greater than Gutherson, and the week Moses indicators that new deal they’re after a brand new fullback. If I am Clint Gutherson I am pondering, ‘What the hell is occurring? How a lot do they actually love me?’

I do not know Clint that properly however he would not strike me as the kind of bloke to explode, and Parramatta most likely is aware of that.

How does one thing like this get out? It is ridiculous. I simply do not perceive it. You take a look at golf equipment just like the Roosters or Melbourne Storm, these items do not get mentioned publicly. It must be stored in home. That is one other massive downside.

Now it is public, each media convention that their gamers do they will be requested about it. You do not want it.

I am not saying they should not do it, you do all the things you possibly can to win a comp. However I can not determine who they will get that’s higher in that function than Clint Gutherson is.

Even the timing has bought me stumped. They misplaced three in a row firstly, there was all that speak about Ryan Matterson’s suspension, and now they lastly have a win, defeating the premiers, and this comes up.

I discover the entire thing weird.

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One other membership within the headlines for all of the unsuitable causes is St George Illawarra, after Ben Hunt known as the loss to the Sharks “embarrassing”.

Final week we had the information that Anthony Griffin must re-apply for his job, along with his contract ending on the finish of 2023.

I do not know Anthony Griffin, however let’s be frank. The writing has been on the wall for a while. It actually has. It has been clear for some time that the Dragons would take a look at different choices for 2024.

There’s rumblings about gamers being sad and never eager to play for him, there was the problem within the low season about Mikaele Ravalawa and Zane Musgrove having an argument at 6am and one way or the other that discovered its means into the media. When issues like which might be being made public then there’s points.

If you take a look at the again finish of final 12 months, the low season and the large losses the final two weeks, it is fairly clear what the result goes to be and so they must make the decision now. Any participant that they need to re-sign, or any participant that they are chasing goes to need to know who’s teaching the aspect.

In the event that they do determine within the subsequent couple of months that another person will probably be in cost subsequent 12 months, it does go away Griffin between a rock and a tough place for the remainder of 2023. It hardly ever ends properly when a choice like that’s made.

Anthony Griffin is an old-school, real bloke who I feel would nonetheless give 100 per cent for the remainder of the 12 months even when he knew he was being punted, however often you find yourself writing off the remainder of the season and beginning your re-build early.

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