Star Australian and Tongan centre Michael Jennings, a member of the Sydney Roosters 2013 Grand Final winning team, and currently with Parramatta Eels, is now looking for a new club. Apparently the Parramatta Eels want to offload him. https://treizemondial.fr/michael-jennin ... la-sortie/ This is truly bizarre because Jennings is all class and Parramatta are hardly in a position to reject world class talent. He would be a star in Super League. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2GMML_aO3A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWeX_1b8DkQ And playing for Parramatta in 2017: https://www.parraeels.com.au/news/2017/ ... -jennings/

Star Australian and Tongan centre Michael Jennings, a member of the Sydney Roosters 2013 Grand Final winning team, and currently with Parramatta Eels, is now looking for a new club. Apparently the Parramatta Eels want to offload him. https://treizemondial.fr/michael-jennin ... la-sortie/ This is truly bizarre because Jennings is all class and Parramatta are hardly in a position to reject world class talent. He would be a star in Super League. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2GMML_aO3A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWeX_1b8DkQ And playing for Parramatta in 2017: https://www.parraeels.com.au/news/2017/ ... -jennings/

Whilst it wouldn’t be as big a signing as widdop, it would still be a massive coup for SL

The big problem for a Super league club would be his asking price. He is currently allegedly earning AU$800,000. That converts to around £445,000. Even if he took a 20% pay cut, he would have to be a marquee player to fit under the salary cap of a Super League club. But who could afford him?

Leaving aside the clubs that are probably already content with their centres (Leeds, Wigan, St Helens, Catalans) and clubs that already have two marquee players (e.g. Warrington), it is hard to think of which club could afford him at close to his asking price. Hull FC? Hull KR? London? I don't know the answer.

Can't see him coming over here. His missus had a sprog about 2 months ago.

Hull won't go for him. We have 3 good centres already on the books in Connor, Tuimivave and Griffin.

At anything close to 445k, I'd suggest that nobody in SL will be signing him.

That type of cash would only be paid out for a star half back, full back or no 9

The way Kelly is, we could offload Talanoa, Connor at 6 and Griffn the wing, we won't though and doubt we have the cap space.

Probably only London would have the space for him at this time.

Maybe. But would David Hughes even consider spending so much money on a centre, when the team already desperately needs a quality half and two fearsome props?

The problem is he soon turns 31, is a lot of money to pay someone who’s only likely to be with you a year or two. You want to be spending that amount of money on someone in their prime, someone to build your squad around and Jennings doesn’t fit that for me.

All that said though it really wouldn’t surprise me if Toronto signed him at the end of the season.

Toronto should sign him now for 2 years given that he is available now. Jennings' centre combination with Ricky Leutele would be so potent that it would guarantee Toronto's easy promotion to Super League, and also a successful 2020 in Super League.

There's a reason Parra are keen to get rid, he isn't worth anywhere near £450k anymore. He's lost a yard of zip over the last 2 years, his pace off the mark and ability to change direction at speed was his main asset and it was devastating in his pomp. Parra dropped him to reserve grade for a week or 2 last year and you have to have a very good reason to drop an $800k player to reserve grade.

He would still be a stand out in Super League but I don't think he could command any more than £200k.

Toronto don’t need star centre’s. They need a general at half back and a pack that’ll work it’s backside off.
They don’t need star backs, they need solid defensive ones. Their money needs spending on the pack if they want to stay in SL when/if they get there.

I could have sworn that the moderators created a thread for such inane babbling......
oh..look. They did
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the problem with hull is that we are earmarked for major personnel changes next season in the forwards and probably will look to spend in that area - minichiello, manu, paea at the very least will need replacing and we need another prop anyway. also kelly likely to go. if we sign jennings on say a 2 year deal, that would be a lot of cap taken up and even on the marquee rule it would cost too much in wages

At what point do your posts get so ridiculous that you self destruct - can’t be far off, hopefully.

It is very far off.

Have you even heard of Ricky Leutele?

No actually I haven’t but then I don’t live in a permanent NRL wet dream.

You mean that you don't keep up with the premier competition of rugby league.

Well let me tell you that Richard "Ricky" Leutele was in 2018 one of the ace centres of the NRL, playing with the Cronulla Sharks. He would be an asset to any northern hemisphere team, and will shine with the Toronto Wolfpack. The Canadian team will soon be in Super League, challenging the likes of Wakefield to try to keep within 20 points behind.

Yesterdays man as far as I'm concerned.
Surely the money he would would be better spent on junior development

Are you referring to Richard Leutele or Michael Jennings?

TUT TUT BAZZA......Richard surely

I thought that was supposed to be happening this season, after Tremendous Toronto walked the Grand Final against Lowly London.
With the spend that Toronto have on their squad, when compared to the rest of The Championship, their promotion really should be a foregone conclusion but, so it was last season as well.
Dont count Les Poulets just yet

I would love to see Jennings over here at Wakey but I'll have settle for Tupou and Lyne

Tupou is better value for money than Jennings would be IMHO.