Can't believe Hull KR Broncos have signed someone with an Australian accent, fancy that !!!

Hull KR Broncos... How intelligent and witty. You are hilarious.

As for Paterson, im optimistic about him doing a good job for us. With the way its going with even average players increasing in value this is the kind of range we would be expected to sign from. Sounds an exciting prospect and if hes as good as or better than Newton we cant grumble too much.

I do.

I don't. Told you before, you don't have to be signed up for Twitter to view it, which I will if anyone points me in the direction of juicy gossip. I'll leave the Cooke snuffling and player stalking for you to do the dirty work for me.

Player stalking? Have you ever thought he could be a personal friend?

And Cooke snuffling sounds illegal.

You do know you don't need a Twitter account to see it right?

Have a look at his kicking on youtube,if he can take kick offs anything like Pat Richards,and it looks like he can,he's got to be our restart kicker.

Does she not 'use' Twitter to see gossip. She does, right?

No she 'looks' at twitter.
Tweeters 'use' the service when they tweet.

Oh! Annie! My hero.

As soon as you click a link on the site, you're using it.

She may not use the services the site provides, but because she takes information from it, she uses it.

If you say so.

One the better threads.

I like twitter I've tweeted cory already hope he moves to brough

Yes I do, because I'm right.

Now, I know you like sending pm's so we can continue there if you'd like? So the others can discuss Cory Paterson. Maybe you'd like to air your views on the signing? As the only contribution you've made to this thread is in reply to something I've said. But I'm sure that's merely a coincidence.

if he moved to brough wouldnt you have to move with the court order rovers have out on you with your morrisons stalking

I saw Newton play nearly 100 games for Newcastle.
I saw Paterson play nearly 80 games for Newcastle.
Newton had a few purple patches, but most of the time he struggled to hold down a starting spot.
Cory had his good times and his bad times. During the good times he was one of the first picked alongside Steve Simpson. During the bad times he was still as good as Newton.
Both of them struggled to play out 80 minutes - both more like 60 minute players.
Newton rarely broke the line. Cory regularly broke the line.
Cory is taller, heavier, faster, more athletic. Newton would be a better playmaker, have a better passing game, and he probably has a bigger heart and puts in more when the team is struggling.
I didn't see any of Newton's games for you, but on Newcastle form you would pick Cory ahead of Newton every time - and i'd pick Zeb Taia (going to Catalans) ahead of either of them.

No frankie cos I report back to kr if it's Stella the players buy or still water and the players never ever ever have booze in they're trolleys

and mr Wong the manager of morrisons wud never ban me

I've read Cory Paterson is earning Aus$300,000 pa (circa £190,000) at present. That can't be right, can it?

Contrast this with how I have been informed Rovers have not broken the new 'ceiling' (reportedly £70-£85,000pa) to sign Cory, if this is the case then it is one helluva drop in income.

In Rovers terms, again assuming he is coming over on the higher scale, that doesn't translate into the cheap option being touted in some quarters.

If he turns out to be half as good as Roopy says he is, then we have got ourselves an extraordinary signing in more ways than one.

Your information is flawed

As he left Newcastle mid season i'd doubt that unless his contract was back loaded.

You never know he could be allowed to box to raise extra revenue.

When Cory signed a 300k contract at Newcastle he was 21 or 22 and he seemed very close to SOO selection because he had already gone well for the Aboriginal All Stars. He was in a lot of demand at that stage.
I think he could still get a decent NRL contract, but reading the article in the Newcastle Herald this morning i think he has decided to take less money and go for a new start. He is still young, but i imagine in two years time he will want to sign for big dollars.
Holding an British passport could mean he is looking at playing for England - can't see why not?

Which info?

The £70k ceiling has been rubbished by Rob Crossland on t'other forum.

It'd make little sense, tbh. It's very possible that they've said they'll only pay more for 'key players' or something like that, but there are all ready more than enough restrictions on building a squad without adding arbitrary ones of your own.
It's also [ipossible[/i that none of the players we sign this year will be on more than that, but that doesn't make it a policy.

hi roopy if you are not an agent you should be have a word with rovers you are doing a great job but not getting paid

Whoa! Don't

the messenger. The use of the term 'ceiling' is from a reliable source at Rovers.

If you recall you outlined a tiered-model on how you figured the Salary Cap operated. In many respects each of those tiers operated within a band-width and as such a ceiling. Whilst I don't believe Rovers have a rigid model it makes sense to me your hypothesis wasn't far off the mark, and if my source is right CP fits into the 2nd tier.

For the record, I do not know what CPs contract is worth with Rovers, and I was actually questioning the reports that he was on mega bucks in Oz and then referencing it to Roopys evaluation of CP.