can you imagine the tension in the locker room if everyone knew everyone else's wage

I’m more worried about the posters who post the supposed salaries of various players going into meltdown because they can’t just make it up, or maybe it wouldn’t make any difference to their witterings.

LMS and “brilliant” in the same sentence, I will never be in any doubt who Saddened supports in the future.

In the NFL players' salaries are in the public domain. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/cash// The transparency on contracts there takes some of the bluff out of negotiations. Especially in a statistics-heavy sport like NFL, it is easy to see how a player is performing compared to their peers (and as they get older, where they are performing compared to their previous seasons). Both parties have plenty of reference points for what the market rate is for a player of their position and ability. Also players end up rooting for each other to get good deals when it comes to contract time, as they like seeing deals that "reset the market" upwards, which they can then use as a reference when their own contracts are up.

In the NFL players' salaries are in the public domain. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/rankings/cash// The transparency on contracts there takes some of the bluff out of negotiations. Especially in a statistics-heavy sport like NFL, it is easy to see how a player is performing compared to their peers (and as they get older, where they are performing compared to their previous seasons). Both parties have plenty of reference points for what the market rate is for a player of their position and ability. Also players end up rooting for each other to get good deals when it comes to contract time, as they like seeing deals that "reset the market" upwards, which they can then use as a reference when their own contracts are up.

Agreed.

Fez needs to step up .... oh, I am Fez

I am sure I heard Jen state on the Super League show today that GI was not one of the top 5 earners at Warrington. For sure his salary still needs to accommodated in the salary cap but perhaps it dispels the "he must be on a whopping great earner" theory.

Or it means there are 5 others at Wire who are raking it in

I think you're correct.
At any rate I've heard that from officials at the club.

All the indications I've heard and read indicate he's got his hunger back, health back and is wanting to prove this to himself as much as anyone else.

A top class signing that I honestly don't see as a risk - or at least minimal risk.

I think he's played left centre, so I wonder if King will move to the right.
I guess Gelling may well not be back.

Bugger i forgot to record it, i hope it's on catch up

Wrong about Inglis.

I've heard LMS described in many ways but can honestly say that brilliant has never been one of them.

I could describe the annoying Michael McIntyre lookalike in many ways.

Brilliant isn't one of them
The others would not so much break the swear filter, more shatter the Internet

Ratchford just good? Have a word with yourself....and I’m not even going to bite over the LMS quote.

Oh come on everyone LMS isn’t world class he is the next level up, I figure that makes him extra terrestrial...

LMS would have been a good asset for us to have had over the last few years. Ratchford is, like Saddened said, in the 'good/very good' rather than world class category.

We should be realistic about our squad. The proof is in results. In the last year we've played 21 SL games and our record is won 8, lost 13. Fans were talking about being disillusioned with rugby league because we were so boring to watch.

However, how much is to do with the coach. Look at the difference Holbrook made at Saints with basically the same player group that Cunningham had.

Sure, but Price is going to be the coach for 2021, nobody is talking about replacing him. It wouldn't be practical to bring in a new coach with restrictions in place on training etc.

So the relevant question is, is the current squad good enough to win the Grand Final in 2021 with Steve Price as coach. Or more realistically are we looking at 2021 as a season where we are at the margins of making/not making the playoffs, and we're going to have players/coaches saying to the media "if we make the playoffs, anything can happen". Which is basically like my Nan saying if you don't play the lottery you never know if you could have won a million. There's a reason why the GF winners are always Leeds, Wigan or Saints. If 'anything can happen' then Hull, Cas, Salford would have won some.

Then 2022 as a rebuild under a new coach and hopefully looking to build a GF contending side in 2023 to 2025 or so. Fair enough as a strategy but signing Inglis makes less sense in that light.

The extended interview on Sky Sports on demand service is worth a watch. Roughly about 20 minute long interview with Brian Carney; does seem as though money isn’t a motivator as when know he isn’t on marquee money and another reason behind joining Wire is a lot down to the relationship we have with the Rabbitohs as well his good friendship with J.Clark.

My response related to you saying we should be realistic about the squad. I don’t think we got as much as we should have from the squad available last season, I’m hoping Price has learned some lessons and will extract more of the potential and results will hopefully be better this season than last.

Funny season this one. Will depend more on depth of squads as much as talent. A lot of rugby to get through.

I hope so too but being a Wire fan means being familiar with this situation from the Cullen years.

To infinity and beyond!

I'm hearing alot of people cite the friendship with Jason Clark being the reason Inglis has signed.
It's warmed my heart this one. Didn't realise Big Greg was such a sentimental soul.
Think this story deserves more mention, as true dedication and nostalgia for a friendship is the stuff of Disney films!

Let it go fella, Wait till Harry Newman replaces him in a year for your head to fall off.

Hopefully when Inglis goes we will find out that James Tedesco was best mates with Blake Austin when they played at Wests.