check todays papers, idris has been offered $350,000 / pa by tinkler

tinkler will get the club so i dont see why they should lose players on formality

Unless the Knights have got a load of players off contract at the end of this year how can Tinkler be offering big contracts for next season even if he does buy the club?
He's apparently offered Snowden $400k a year for 4 years. Idris $350k a year for 3 years, Ennis will be something very similar i'd imagine.
Kurt Gidley is also in his last year and is discussing a new deal with them which will be bigger than anyone there trying to sign, probably round the $500k mark. No doubt Uate will play for NSW this year and will want an improved offer, especially after the season he had.
Plus they've already got a few Rep stars already, Costigan has just signed for 3 years, Houston has just gone back on a reported $220k a year, guys like Sau and Taia play for NZ so they wont be on peanuts and neither will Mullen.
I wonder how many players are OOC at the end of this season.

i agree with what youve said here :

1, as russel crowe has shown at souths, they seem to have a flexible salary cap when you have a rich owner behind them. souths get inglis, have burgess on $190,000 etc and still want SBW.

2. id assume any offers tinkler has made are only informal anyway subject to him getting the club

3. all these guys are newcastle juniors anyway so im happy for them to return home and i dont mind if they bend the salary cap a little.

but i get what your saying :


1. he isnt the club owner yet
2. these offers will kill their salary cap

With regards to Souths, at the end of this season, you'll probably see the back of Asotasi, Crocker, Ross, to name a few. So poss a cool $1m off the salaries.

They signed lots of young kids to their first grade sqaud this year, on "not a lot".

burgess is apparently on $190,000.

including stuff thats not in the cap like car, 3rd party stuff etc, i still dont see him earning less than $400,000 plus pa

Offering Idris $350k a year is a joke. If the man is willing to buy the Knights, then he needs to sort out his potential recruitment policy.

www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... 1b1r8.html tinkler walks away

www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... 1b1r8.html tinkler walks away

Just listened to an interview with Steve Burraston (Knights CEO) on 2GB. Surprise, turns out the deal was not all it was cracked up to be. The deal wasn't for 100 million. It's worth according to Ross Greenwood and Burraston was not even a third of that. In fact, in the deal Tinkler proposed, he would not even be handing over any money up front, not a dollar. It was more a case of Tinkler and possibly others associated with him becoming more or less benefactors.

There was no guarenteed longevity in Tinkler's proposal, and current sponsors of the club had issues with the proposal that couldn't be worked out in the time given by Tinkler (he forwarded his complete documents to the Knights last Wednesday only).

So now, where does this leave Kade Snowden?

I am glad the newcastle board had the backbone to resist tinkler on this occasion. The telegraph will rant about their stupidity but tinklers tactics of using the media to pressure the knights into a decision before they had due time to consider the deal was disgraceful. If he comes back with a proper comprehensive deal covering key areas like junior funds etc. then they should accept it, but it was the right decision to let him walk for the moment.

I expect Snowden to sign with Cronulla now. Big week for them to, the members will more than likely approve the development of some club land into residential and commercial lots to secure their long term financial future

It will end up dragging on will all this, deals on then off. Who knows what will happen.

tinkler still wants the club so i guess hes waiting for knights members to boot out the current board

from what the media are saying i think the current board arent asking for a lot, russel crowe gave similar guaranatees at souths

and if his real offer isnt $100 million then he seems a little duplicitious
having said that hes rich, can afford to fund them and is a proven success at life

hes worth over $600 million at an age of 34!

Am i missing something here? www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl ... 6009709075

Am i missing something here? www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl ... 6009709075

Tinkler's very odd. He tapped Kade Snowdon about joining the Knights. And in the end he didn't even get control of the club.

Would you trust this man though? He's tapped at least one player before he even had control of the club he wanted him to join. That is bad form IMO.

Unfortunately, it's difficult to believe a word Tinkler says. Whatever his true intentions, he is playing games to get there.