Gus and Sam To Extend

[Rooster1908]

for me something close to 3m for 5 years seems about right with something just under 1m for years 4 and 5 when keary is gone. (if keary follows thru on his decision to retire after 2024).

Did like say he was retiring in2024????

[Rooster_6]

A 12 month extension would ease the nerves, this kid is up there with RTS & Latrell in terms of what he can do.

Can we at least keep this one!

[Johnny73]

Gus also mentioned to Freddy (who is a host of this show on 2GB) that he saw Freddy’s young bloke at the Scots footy camp (wasn’t aware that he attended there) and that he was looking bigger then Freddy these days (jokingly but must be a solid kid). Says Freddy jnr is currently 14 - looking forward to see him play in the future.
https://www.2gb.com/salary-cap-juggl...KA_uWAhpFhBTZQ

I thought Freddy Jnr was playing on Sunday. I don't mean that as scuttlebutt, I mean that's what I see in Walker Jr. He is Fittleresque.

[Spirit of 66]

Poised to sign five year extension: https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl...65068479f9811c

[Thirteen]

A 12 month extension would ease the nerves, this kid is up there with RTS & Latrell in terms of what he can do.

Can we at least keep this one!

Unusual comparisons.

[TeddyGoat]

Unusual comparisons.

Yet they all have one thing in common: the talent to single handedly break a game open.

[RoosterFanNZ]

https://www.nrl.com/news/2021/04/26/...press-himself/

'I've been really clear': Walker desperate to stay where he can express himself

Off-contract Roosters halfback Sam Walker says he has no doubt an announcement about an extension at the club will be made sooner than later, praising coach Trent Robinson for allowing him to play the free-flowing style of footy that suits him.

Walker's unconstrained long-passing game and will-o'-the-wisp running game have been causing havoc for defensive lines in his four NRL games so far with match-winning performances against the Sharks and Dragons on the board already.

He is hoping to produce plenty more of exactly that in his time at Bondi and is hopeful of putting pen to paper as soon as this week.

"I've told the club, I've been really clear: I love this place," Walker said.

"I love the ability to be able to play my footy. The club allows me to do that and Robbo gives me confidence to be able to go out on to the field and play my style of football.

"I'm not pinned down to one side, I'm not made into a robot at all, I'm able to play free-flowing footy and that's what I want to be able to do. I want to be able to go out on the field and have fun. That's what this club allows for me
"What this club allows me to be able to do on the footy field, that's what I want to do and that's how I have my most amount of fun, that's how I get my enjoyment – I love playing footy and that's what I want to do and at this club I'm allowed to do that my way."

Prop Jared Waerea-Hargreaves said the rest of the group was invigorated by Walker's sheer enjoyment of the game.

"It's good to see Sammy Walker throw the ball around and back himself and go and score some tries," Waerea-Hargreaves told NRL.com.

"We don't want to harness Sammy too much because that's why he's here, to play the style of footy he needs to play and wants to play.

"I just really enjoy seeing the joy it gets out of everyone else as well, seeing this young 18-year-old run around, bounce around and step and kick and just seeing us older boys vibe off that, it brings a lot of joy to us as well."

Listed as 78 kilograms in his club profile, 18-year-old Walker is one of the smallest players in the NRL and has been a target for opposition ball-runners to some effect so far, but he laughed off the rough treatment as not only an expected but an enjoyable part of the sport.

"I think you see the skinny little white boy out on the field I think you know where to run!" he laughed.

"Obviously you get used to it. You get it growing up, you prep all week and know you're going to get a knock throughout the game. For me it's a good thing, you know what they're going to do, you just have to step in front of them and make your tackles.

"To have someone like Brett Morris and Joey Manu outside me and obviously Sitili on the inside, he gives me great confidence to be able to stand in front of them and know they'll have my back.

"The way we recover here, your body feels pretty good after a day or two. You sort of just get used to it. That first game the body's not used to such a shock to the system but after three or four now I think my body's sort of getting used to being pretty bashed up."

Waerea-Hargreaves said it was the job of Walker's edge partners to help him out when he needed it – not that he seemed to need a whole lot of help.

"I think he's 74, 75 kilos of just bone!" JWH laughed.

"Honestly he's confident, he's doing what he needs to do and he knows he's got to keep improving like the rest of us.

"He's got a guy there, Sitili, doing a really good job defensively looking after him but he knows what he's got to do."

Walker said his job won't change much if skipper James Tedesco is unable to back up from a failed HIA this week but remained hopeful the fullback would line up against Newcastle on Saturday.

"We'll have a look and see where Teddy's at and if he is no good, whoever steps into that role will do the exact same thing, they'll know their job," Walker said.

"Nothing really changes for me or the team, we all know what we need to do and we all know if we execute our role the result will take care of itself."

[zac]

Did like say he was retiring in2024????

he did an interview when he signed the extension and said that that would probably be it for his nrl career. so no certainty but for a guy with a history of head knocks doesn't sound crazy

[Rooster_6]

Unusual comparisons.

In terms of what he can do meaning his ceiling of talent. Not stylistically.