Napa released

[ROC181]

I don't think so. He basically ended up a bench player for us.

And you just can't keep a player on the books just in case he might come back and hurt you one day... Its taking a place.

[ism22]

The Tapau deal was always extremely unlikely,weve added around 1.4m with Crichton Morris and Hall and released Napa Fergo and Matto for 1.2 max. That's a 200 shortfall,add Tapau at 600-700 and we are 800=900 short.Granted the club stated we were 600 under but that still leaves us over. On top of this we have Keary Liu Mitchell Manu and Butcher starting new contract extensions that begin in 19,so all those guys are likely to be on more than they were this year.The numbers just never stacked up for us to be in the market for Tapau.

The way I look at it you've got a bottom line of ~$10 million for 30 players and the minimum wage is ~$120k. Once you've paid Cronk $1 million and Teddy $1 million, you've got $8 million for 28 players.

- If Karl Marx was running the books, every other player would earn $285k a year.
- At least 2 players will be on ~$500k a year.
- At $7 million for 26 players your average goes down to $270k per player.

IMO you can only get that average wage down before you start being unable to afford a high quality top-17. $10 million isn't THAT much to share amongst 30 NRL players so any cap relief you can get adds up big time.