POS on Roger's exit

[Johnny Tobin]

Any chance we try change his mind? I'm not holding my breath personally.

It would be a miracle and Easter is over.

[bondi-boy]

“Personally I’m gutted,” O’Sullivan told The Daily Telegraph. “We brought him over here (from New Zealand) when he was 18-years-old.
“We set him up, we employed him. We helped his family and it’s well documented ‘Mini’ (former Roosters fullback Anthony Minichiello) helped him with his fullback play and diet.
“The coaching staff has made him the player he is today.
“I think the coaching staff has been phenomenal. They brought him through the under-20s, then a season on the wing, then a season between wing and fullback and now he has made fullback his own.
“We are disappointed but the club is bigger and stronger, we’ll move on. It’s just disappointing he didn’t see the big picture and be a one-club man, which we would have loved him to be.
“We put a lot of time and resources into Roger but we will now put that into others.

And this is how the little 's...' repays us.
Get him outta here now!

[Tommy Smith]

I understand your point Danish.

But everyone has a baby... Roger was POS' baby. He found him as a kid playing schoolboy football and turned the world on it's head for him.

Brought him and his family over. Gave Roger a career in Sydney (one of the best cities in the world to live), enrolled him into University, the coaches and players put everything they had into him and his development.

He is an immense talent that will be missed - i love his enthusiasm. The boys all love him and will not wish ill on him. He is a professional, he loves our club, he knows what we did for him and will bleed RWB until the day he leaves... he doesn't need to be reminded.

But I would facepalm my ancestors to $800k a year. That sort of money can set you up for life. 2 years - buy/pay off a great house in Sydney's East. Set yourself and your family up for a life with that kind of coin. Imagine not having to worry about a mortgage and housing yourself, your future kids and wife.

I would do the exact same thing in his shoes. I would be grateful and thankful to the club that made me who I am... but if by leaving it means financial security for myself and my family. You better ****ing believe i'll walk - I don't think anyone would do any different.

Life is more than winning a premiership. You have 10 years of good football in you if your a good player... 5 more if you are an amazing player. That's a pretty ****ing short career. RTS has done the smart thing and has made his years in this career count.

I wish him all the best. I will miss him immensely. Watching him step in the RWB has been on of the highlights the last 2 years.

Personally I think POS isn't wrong in his statements... But would he stay at the Roosters if he was offered double to go an Recruit for another club? Im sure he wouldnt be so harsh on himself.

Jason Taumalolo was different. The bros offered him 1m a year and he stayed at the Cowboys for 500k per year. Out of loyalty. He recognised that at 21yrs old he has plenty of time to make millions (for now the poor baby will have to somehow survive on 500k a year... so it'll be rice for dinner every night!).

He obviously loved the Cowboys. I don't for a second believe that RTS loves the RWB. If he did he wouldn't leave on a whim for more money at 21. Again, when did 500-550k per year over two years become so mortifying a prospect?

[Johnny Tobin]

Fair enough, agree that it was off

You have to give me credit for hanging in there when you wanted to drop him and then when you didn't want to cheer for him. But when you got to Fergo I could tell you had lost the plot and I had to jet to save what's left of my sanity.

[hackthefortress]

Jason Taumalolo was different. The bros offered him 1m a year and he stayed at the Cowboys for 500k per year. Out of loyalty. He recognised that at 21yrs old he has plenty of time to make millions (for now the poor baby will have to somehow survive on 500k a year... so it'll be rice for dinner every night!).

He obviously loved the Cowboys. I don't for a second believe that RTS loves the RWB. If he did he wouldn't leave on a whim for more money at 21. Again, when did 500-550k per year over two years become so mortifying a prospect?

Everyone is different. Would you leave your current job if another offered you double? JT held loyalty above money.

**** loyalty. Loyalty will not buy my house for me, money will. And yes, $500k is not a mortifying prospect. But losing $300k because loyalty... that's mortifying.

You can't tell me you would do any differently.

[The Sack]

With a bit of luck, RTS will not like it at the Warriors, not adapt to their style of play or whatever. After three years he will be back, if not earlier.

[rooster_booster]

Everyone is different. Would you leave your current job if another offered you double? JT held loyalty above money.

**** loyalty. Loyalty will not buy my house for me, money will. And yes, $500k is not a mortifying prospect. But losing $300k because loyalty... that's mortifying.

You can't tell me you would do any differently.

JT did not hold loyalty above money. He took a kings ransom and will never win a premiership as the main guy as a result of hogging so much of the cap.

[hackthefortress]

JT did not hold loyalty above money. He took a kings ransom and will never win a premiership as the main guy as a result of hogging so much of the cap.

I didnt know anything about the 1M offer or the loyalty. Just going off this:

The bros offered him 1m a year and he stayed at the Cowboys for 500k per year. Out of loyalty.

[Tommy Smith]

Why is it such a shock to suggest some would do differently when, again, we've already seen a 21yr old turn down 200k more than RTS ran for? JWH and Napa also signed on for 6-figures less than what they were offered elsewhere.

I'd leave my current job for double, obviously. But playing professional NRL is not just any job though is it. Obviously we all love the Roosters more than RTS ever will. So it's a bit null and void for me to state that I'd sign for the Roosters for 500k over another club for 1mill in a heartbeat.

It's an unfair comparison. But my point is we're not asking RTS to sign an 8 yr contract at 500k. It would have been a 2 yr deal. Then we could have seriously upped our offer or he could have signed with the Warriors for 1 million a year easily. And earned that for the next 8-10 years.

[rwbfl]

Matty Johns believes Roosters rising superstar Roger Tuivasa-Sheck may have made a mistake leaving the premiership-contenders at this stage of his career, having accepted a $800K a year deal from the New Zealand Warriors on Wednesday.


"It's great money. But at this point of your career, playing in a premiership-contending club under one of the best coaches in the NRL. [That's] far more important than the money," said Matty Johns, on Triple M Sydney's Grill Team.

"The Warriors have all the talent in the world but for whatever reason the warriors are a club where great young talents often disappear.

"If I'm at the Roosters, I'm trying to change his [Tuivasa-Sheck's] mind before Round 13."

[Andrew Walker]

I love the honesty by POS here.

The thing is such honesty stems from POS being at a previous club where such a thing never happened and we all know why that was

[Salvatori Grubber]

Better places to worship in Auckland, I guess?

Good luck to the snivelling little Hillsonger.

What a tremendous kick in the balls. You'd prefer to lose pretty much anyone else in the squad over him. Christ.

Although I don't begrudge the kid making the decision, I have to say that the quote above nails it.

[hackthefortress]

Better places to worship in Auckland, I guess?

Good luck to the snivelling little Hillsonger.

What a tremendous kick in the balls. You'd prefer to lose pretty much anyone else in the squad over him. Christ.

Thats pretty rough. Don't hate the kid because he went for a payday. It isn't fair. What wouldn't you do for that kind of coin?

[Guest]

Fark I didn't know he was a Hillsonger. lol

[John Corey]

..You are all over reacting. It's just a flesh wound...... 😳. Just a flesh wound...