Player Addin Fonua-Blake

[Tookey 2.0]

Just thinking about other ideas...

Dragons want AFB
Titans want Ben Hunt
We would be pretty stoked to get a big name prop from Titans - Mo Fotueka could be a big coup.

Maybe a 3 way is the way to go here

Fotueka on 800k and then someone else on 4-700k (JT, Saifitis, Terrel May, Leo Thompson, Papalii etc) would have tremendous upside for us

 

[El Chuckie]

Just thinking about other ideas...

Dragons want AFB
Titans want Ben Hunt
We would be pretty stoked to get a big name prop from Titans - Mo Fotueka could be a big coup.

Maybe a 3 way is the way to go here

Fotueka on 800k and then someone else on 4-700k (JT, Saifitis, Terrel May, Leo Thompson, Papalii etc) would have tremendous upside for us

Need to get you round the table with that kind of left-field inventiveness. Nice work.

 

[Tookey 2.0]

Need to get you round the table with that kind of left-field inventiveness. Nice work.

Let's just say its not the first three way I've proposed

 

[Riz]

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[Matiunz]

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Well done to the club for acting swiftly to resolve- wonder if we’ve got a 2025 target lined up? Still hope AFB doesn’t phone it in next season though

 

[1995warriorsfan]

So needing urgently leave to be with his parents can't be real reason he wanted to go then.
It all comes back to $$, good on the club for getting him to stay until the end of 2024.

 

[Sammyw]

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could they have not handled this in house instead of going public ffs, credit to the club but man this reeks from AFB end, he is a snake me thinks

 

[WahsaurusRex]

If that wasn't a whirlwind 24 hours huh? Clearly, this isn't over though..

Dude better not pack a sad next season, or Berry forbid we end up in a Ben Hunt situation where AFB is talking about it in the media every other day.

 

[WahsaurusRex]

 

[Cces]

Niukore for $850k a season and think he needs to add more output.

It was reported at 2.5 mill over 4 seasons so the 850k this year was some front loading

 

[Tragic]

Let's just say its not the first three way I've proposed

Pictures or a link or it didn't happen.

 

[UpTheWahs]

Let's just say its not the first three way I've proposed

Three ways hardly end with 3 happy parties.

I mean in the NRL

 

[Aman 2.0]

AFB just never gave team player vibes to me. FFS he wore a gold silk Armani shirt to an all black tie awards dinner.

I’m off this cunt now. Just business no more lovey vibes for him

 

[MrFrankWhite]

We do need to remember it is a business. AFB deserves to maximise his earning potential and the club deserves to get their moneys worth.
Lots of big pay days for props at the moment and AFB is in the top 3. Maybe his contract isnt that reflective of the cap increases, maybe he is just a mercenary. Either way this could work out great, hes effectively playing for a new contract.

 

[MrFrankWhite]

To follow that, what if he has a shit season, what if he gets injured? Both unlikely, but still...

 

[Tookey 2.0]

To follow that, what if he has a shit season, what if he gets injured? Both unlikely, but still...

For sure, being the negative Nancy I can sometimes be, here are some of the biggest ways this could blow up in our face:

1. Injured all year and we end up paying a mill for nothing

2. AFB has a poor start to the season, so all other teams baulk at his 1.1m price tag

3. AFB drags his feet and has a below standard season, meaning we barely scrape into the 8.

4. Looking at the player's available right now, there are no decent replacements for him in 2025.

5. We lose AFB, Tohu, SJ all at the end of 2024, right when we have about 6 key young players who need to learn and develop from the snr pros who have lost left.

 

[UpTheWahs]

AFB deserves to maximise his earning

hes effectively playing for a new contract

He has job security that guarantees him $1.1 (or thereabouts) million each year till the end of 2026. He signed the extension only last year.

Are you suggesting he deserves more money and an even longer contract term?

He put pen to paper. He deserves nothing more than what he's getting right now.

 

[BangBro's (still banging)]

At least we have 2024's scapegoat on hand.

 

[MrFrankWhite]

He has job security that guarantees him $1.1 (or thereabouts) million each year till the end of 2026. He signed the extension only last year.

Are you suggesting he deserves more money and an even longer contract term?

He put pen to paper. He deserves nothing more than what he's getting right now.

No I don't. But professional sports is a cut throat business and AFB is leveraging the only asset he has; his body. Which has a very defined window of opportunity.

Do you think that's unreasonable?

 

[UpTheWahs]

No I don't. But professional sports is a cut throat business and AFB is leveraging the only asset he has; his body. Which has a very defined window of opportunity.

Do you think that's unreasonable?

I think that is extremely unreasonable.

He agreed on an amount he thinks he is worth and the warriors agreed to pay that. They put pen to paper. The club then offered him an extension to which he agreed.

Him having a stellar season isn't a reason to look for an upgrade when he has 3 years to run on this contract, we pay him over a million for him to have a stellar season. And he's doing just that.

He cannot look for a new contract when he already has 3 years to run on his contract.

Just like he's leveraging the only asset he has, his body, the warriors are gambling a million a season on the same asset. If he goes down with an ACL the first game of the season, he's still got a million coming his way while the club gets no return.

There should be a limit to the greed or this circus will be never ending.

Absolute ungrateful prick in my eyes.