I think I will re-phrase
Quote ="AdmiralHanson"One good season ?
The reason next year is his testimonial year is that will be his tenth season for the club. Terry Newton's loss was Leeds gain ?
- Contrast that with fly-by-night wendyball players
- He's been form hooker in the competition on a number of occasions, not least the season he finally got the GB recognition he deserved.
- I bet, like many other players at the club, he's had other offers to go elsewhere and rejected them.
Yeah, it would be easy to be a mercenary and move from club to club every couple of years for a fat contract and the signing on fees. As Sinfield hinted at the end of the GF last year, there are plenty of players who forgoe the lucrative contracts with other teams, to stay part of the Rhinos structure and placing loyalty over financial gain. You can bet there are players at Leeds, who if the club was able to pay them within the salary cap / wages structure at Headingley, would get far more.
Maybe the testimonial is a chance for us (the fans) to 'reward' those players for their loyality and service to the club and maybe, in one lump sum towards the latter part of their careers, replace some or all of those funds that they haven't had in their pay packets up to now ?
If the Bradford fans don't want to come, then who cares what they do ? It's given them something else to moan about, rather than whinging about Crapnmara.'"
HTH
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