Terrell May approached to leave

[Bates]

Sure you could put it down to other attitude issues however that hotel room gate incident wasn’t one of them.

Was that hotel room incident a bad look for the club?

[ChookMaster]

So why was a player of May's calibre let go? He's arguably our best Prop and still hasn't reached his full potential.

Sure you could put it down to other attitude issues however that hotel room gate incident wasn’t one of them.

[SamKerrSimp]

But we would still get 2 great seasons from him on minimal $ for a bargain so it still would be fine
and then let the Vaa bros take over 2027
wong isn’t a front rower and when Lindsey and Leniu play origin who is left?

Fair points.

If I were to try and guess what Robbo is going with here it would be that we have Lindsay and Spencer starting with a rotation of Whyte, Wong and Nat Butcher covering up front and the 13 with Egan Butcher rotating up front or in the back row with DLS Va'a next off the rank in that extended bench spot with Xavier Va'a possibly also in the extended bench and those guys likely filling in during the origin period, that's a total of 8 players that can/will rotate between about 5 spots and then eventually we will get Watson back in the 13 which also limits the rotation.

Robbo loves the Butchers and they aren't going anywhere, they are both all effort and we know that Robbo loves these type of guys they'll be a mainstay throughout 2025. I just think they've decided on Wong, Whyte and Va'a x 2 as the long term future and they want to give those more playing time especially Wong and Whyte and even though May is good they're probably factoring in age and contract length in to the decision.

[Bates]

He wanted more money and he got it so good on him
Has gone from earning $500k next year to 700k

He wasn't off contract.

In fact he just signed a new deal with us! Do you think we'd let Sammy Walker leave in 5 months if he turned around and said he wants more money? I don't think so!

[Rooster90]

So why was a player of May's calibre let go? He arguably our best Prop and still hasn't reached his full potential.

He wanted more money and he got it so good on him
Has gone from earning $500k next year to 700k

[Rooster_6]

What confuses me the most about this and I’ve seen a few others also mention the same,we’ve lost so many good players yet still have both Butcher brothers on the books for next year..

If indeed it’s true and the Club is trying to offload players for cap space,surely May remains over the Butcher. bros?!?

Hope the Club knows what they are doing..

The club is not trying to offload players for salary cap space.

[Bates]

So what you’re implying is he and the other boys he was with ( Spence, Whyte ) were on drugs? After it was put out by the club that it was all BS?

So why was a player of May's calibre let go? He's arguably our best Prop and still hasn't reached his full potential.

[ChookMaster]

Tigers new major sponsor is Columbian Air. May will fit in perfectly. It's a shame he can't take The Cheese with him.

I'm proud of Aubbo for drawing a line in the sand.

So what you’re implying is he and the other boys he was with ( Spence, Whyte ) were on drugs? After it was put out by the club that it was all BS?

[Bates]

Tigers new major sponsor is Columbian Air. May will fit in perfectly. It's a shame he can't take The Cheese with him.

I'm proud of Aubbo for drawing a line in the sand.

[Dr. Voodoo Man]

Seriously, what did life do to you mate? Sorry that shyte happened but try to be nice to people for once as you're such a grumpy fark!!!

I'm not your mate and my life is great.

[Seventy Five]

Don"t panic everyone, we're getting Klemmer in return.

[Lydon]

What confuses me the most about this and I’ve seen a few others also mention the same,we’ve lost so many good players yet still have both Butcher brothers on the books for next year..

If indeed it’s true and the Club is trying to offload players for cap space,surely May remains over the Butcher. bros?!?

Hope the Club knows what they are doing..

[Chook2]

It's been obvious from the start that May has been moved on because we have a lot of young, promising forwards that the club want to prioritise like Naufahu Whyte, Siua Wong and the Va'a brothers but because of what Terrell May's dickhead brothers have done in the past people just automatically assumed he did something wrong but the statement put out by the club almost confirms nothing has happened and this was just a tough decision that we make almost every year that somehow became a bigger issue than it should have been.

I'm really not sure why people can't see that we are going to give other youngsters a chance over a guy who is going to turn 26 in a couple of months and can negotiate with rival clubs in 12 months time. If he has a great season 2025 there was a chance he would leave us anyway and I wouldn't mind betting that's also played a part in the decision.

But we would still get 2 great seasons from him on minimal $ for a bargain so it still would be fine
and then let the Vaa bros take over 2027
wong isn’t a front rower and when Lindsey and Leniu play origin who is left?

[Chook2]

Yep.

A young prop who plays different to the rest and.can play 80min.....punted because of a comment and 'our standards' lol

Gee this club has lost some gloss with recruitment/retainment the last few years

Prop in his prime about to play origin and we had him for a bargain
was worth way more then $450k
Not like a Napa situation where we realised we overpaid and tried to move him on
the playing group is off it

[Chook2]

Still not a fan of this move
May will pocket a lot more $ but shows how well we extended him for 2 years on $450k we had a bargain
now he will get $670k roughly at tigers over 3 seasons
allready lost 5 of the 17. Now 6 which is concerning as if Spencer and Lindsay play Origin we have Whyte and maybe rookie Vaa bros or two scary butcher bros in the front row
and up to $4m of players gone with only one Marky N signing and little on the market
and walker and cheese missing the start of the year that 8 of the 17 gone with 1 signing