Mikey lewis

Like him but not sure he compliments Williams.

He wouldn’t ‘wow’ me in the slightest

Lewis is entertaining every time, but not game controlliing. I don’t think he’s what we need alongside Williams, but then Burgess seems to know what works and what doesn’t. Or Gleeson does anyway.

Do we know how the salary cap rules would work regards Bateman? So for example his current deal is rumoured to be £350k per year. Let’s say Wests were prepared to pay £200k per year for his remaining 2 years. Would his cap value to us be £150k or £350k? Not including any use of marquee allowances etc.

There would be no point in Wests contributing to his salary, unless it counted on our Salary Cap and not on theirs.

Wests want him off their books, we won’t be prepared to pay £350k per year for him ( nor will any side in SL I expect). If Wests move him on any payment they make to us will not be on the salary cap. So they would have $700k AUD of space on their cap. I’m just not sure how it works from our side.

Yes, I understand that Wests want him shut of him and are prepared to pay a portion of his salary.

His new club (If he leaves them) would have all his wages loaded onto their Salary Cap.

He is however Federation Trained, so as a Marquee Player there is a reduction in the Salary Cap loading, compared to a Non-Federation Trained player.

Someone posted on here, that Dufty has been recently deselected as a Marquee Player for this season, and now Bateman has replaced him as a Marquee Player, which gives us more room on the Cap.

Hence Bateman`s wage, would only count on the Salary Cap, for a Federation Trained Marquee Player.

Bateman might not work out any way. But if he does and Tigers really want him gone, he doesn't really have much leverage wage wise unless someone is daft enough to pay that for him. He might have to take a pay cut with no choice, i doubt we'd pay that wage for him unless he came over and was absolutely superb and a massive game changer for us. But i just can't see it, but you never know.

He is contracted to Wests for a further two seasons after this.

He has more leverage than they have because he knows they don`t want him back.