fosdyke99 wrote:are we still interested in an nrl halfback if these abdul rumours are true?
I’d doubt it very much. Declared as a marquee player or not going off AP’s comments in the Humberside interview Trueman is obviously earning 150K plus a year, Abdull the same if he’s going to be a marquee realistically we are not going to spend further on a specialist halfback for one of the 3 to be sat on the bench. With the injury history of those 2 it would be wise but can’t see it, you have to remember that a minimum wage NRL contract is around 65K a year so to tempt someone to move across the world you’d normally have to offer big money.
If we are still looking at an overseas 9 then maybe it will be someone who can play a bit of halfback too. It’s hindsight now but If we had a fit Trueman and JA on the books how useful would someone like Nu Brown have been? You’d have seen a much different player than one burdened with all of the teams organisational responsibilities.
Also on that type of player, it’s interesting to see how Connor Watson is playing so well. It was said we nearly had a deal for him in the bag, same with Shawn Blore he was also close apparently. I assume when we missed out on him we went for Okunbor. How different would things of been off we got those 2? Depending on how you look at it we either nearly got very lucky or ended up really unlucky, fine margins.
