cherry pie x111 wrote:from the s.m.h today
Moimoi told the Herald he was worried the re-signing of star fullback Jarryd Hayne would leave no room for him - next season or beyond.
''I've got one more year, next year. But I don't know. I think 'Haynesey' will take all the money,'' Moimoi said. ''I haven't really had time to talk to the coaching staff yet. If I didn't have another offer here then I think I might be going on to England.''
It's all the usual contract games. Anderson won't let Moimoi go. He's critical to Parra's (Anderson's) style of play. He's been a true enabler for the style in the 2nd half of this year.
Plus the 'going on to England' bit is definitely tripe. He is just showing Parra, as if they didn't already know, that he'd walk into the SL and get top dollar, so they need to pay him what he's worth if they want to keep him. A lot of NRL players throw the SL round when it comes to contract time, just to show the club they are at that they know what they can earn if they go overseas. Visibility of salary cap info between NRL clubs is relatively transparent and teams seem to know what gaps there are in other clubs caps, whereas the SL is much more cloudy. This makes it easier for agents and players to say they can earn $x if they move to the SL and hopefully force their club to cough up. With visibility of the other NRL club's caps being better, the clubs can have a good guess what a player can get if he moves to another specific NRL team, so it’s harder for players/agents to bargain.
Also, his 9-year old Son lives in Tonga and Fui loves the fact that him or his son gets to fly out and meet up relatively regularly. His son will not be moving away from Tonga. Word on the Parra forums is there is no way he'd leave Australia and be even further removed from his son. He's supposedly publicly said this at a Parra event, but I cannot find a link to it. I read it some time ago. It was definitely said though.
Of course, his agent will be telling the Parra board he’s changed his mind
