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NSW ORIGIN centre Michael Jennings has been told by Penrith that he is free to look for a new club as the ARL Commission prepares to reject the Panthers' application for a huge salary cap exemption.
As South Sydney became the latest team to be linked with Jennings, it also emerged that the ARLC was on the cusp of rejecting the submission filed by Penrith boss Phil Gould to alleviate the salary cap pressure on the club.
Uncertainty has clouded Jennings's future for weeks, but Penrith's intentions have now become clear. The result, the Herald has learnt, is that he has effectively been offered a release from his $600,000-a-season deal that runs until the end of 2015 and asked whether he could find another club.
Weighed down by salary cap constraints as a result of recruitment and retention decisions made before their arrival, Penrith coach Ivan Cleary and general manager Gould are endeavouring to give the Panthers some room to move in terms of their roster, and Jennings is the prime target.
One of the NRL's most exciting players when at the top of his game, Jennings - in the second season of a five-year contract - is regarded as too expensive given Penrith's salary cap predicament.
Getting rid of him, however, will be no simple exercise. Canterbury were reported at the weekend to have signalled an interest in Jennings - although officially they are denying any, having just signed Krisnan Inu - and there was speculation yesterday that South Sydney might be keen to add the left-side centre to their star-studded line-up.
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Not us being linked to him, but an interesting one. He's always one of the #1 players for NSW in Origin (when he isn't throwing cheap haymakers that lose us the game) and is injured/suspended most of the time for the Riff, but I'm almost tempted by him.
Would he add anything to our centres granted we already have Moga and SKD?
Of note we might be losing BJ!!!!!! Would Jennings be a wise replacement? (He at least belts Queenslanders rather than women.)
NSW ORIGIN centre Michael Jennings has been told by Penrith that he is free to look for a new club as the ARL Commission prepares to reject the Panthers' application for a huge salary cap exemption.
As South Sydney became the latest team to be linked with Jennings, it also emerged that the ARLC was on the cusp of rejecting the submission filed by Penrith boss Phil Gould to alleviate the salary cap pressure on the club.
Uncertainty has clouded Jennings's future for weeks, but Penrith's intentions have now become clear. The result, the Herald has learnt, is that he has effectively been offered a release from his $600,000-a-season deal that runs until the end of 2015 and asked whether he could find another club.
Weighed down by salary cap constraints as a result of recruitment and retention decisions made before their arrival, Penrith coach Ivan Cleary and general manager Gould are endeavouring to give the Panthers some room to move in terms of their roster, and Jennings is the prime target.
One of the NRL's most exciting players when at the top of his game, Jennings - in the second season of a five-year contract - is regarded as too expensive given Penrith's salary cap predicament.
Getting rid of him, however, will be no simple exercise. Canterbury were reported at the weekend to have signalled an interest in Jennings - although officially they are denying any, having just signed Krisnan Inu - and there was speculation yesterday that South Sydney might be keen to add the left-side centre to their star-studded line-up.
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Not us being linked to him, but an interesting one. He's always one of the #1 players for NSW in Origin (when he isn't throwing cheap haymakers that lose us the game) and is injured/suspended most of the time for the Riff, but I'm almost tempted by him.
Would he add anything to our centres granted we already have Moga and SKD?
Of note we might be losing BJ!!!!!! Would Jennings be a wise replacement? (He at least belts Queenslanders rather than women.)
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