There is a danger his out of line earnings will destabilise both codes of rugby internationally. There will be lots of better players (today, not yesterday) who are on a fraction of his pay and will want more. Some daft owner somewhere will try to up stars’ wages and the spiral will commence and ruin clubs.

SBW signing that level of contract will definitely stoke wage inflation and if you were one of the games top players, you would definitely be asking your agent "why is he getting "x" and you've only manged to get me "y".
It's like the early 90's all over again.

Like "Belly", I'm looking forward to seeing him play and hopefully, that will be 3 times this season against Trinity plus, whatever makes it onto TV but, Cant get over the (alleged) contract.

that was my thought, it doesn't take long for clubs to panic buy and put them selves out of control, then there's the players that will cause unrest because of the difference in pay think sod him let him do all the work he gets paid for it

Toronto have just announced that they've mad a big error and actually signed the old blues singer, Sonny Boy Williamson.

Lets be honest who would turn down 100 grand a game? Its crazy money for a player at the back end of his career but moneybags toronto can afford it i just hope they subsidise travel to their home games so we can watch him put ball over dead ball line last time i saw him play in rl at warrington for new zealand

nice In all seriousness I’m not convinced one bit about SBW, been good but you can say that about quite a few ex NRL players. Personally I would have spent the money on some younger players with future in front of them.

I don’t expect him to be the same player he was six years ago, but he’s still got that star appeal that would make me go to a game just to watch him in the flesh. I’m looking forward to see him play at Belle Vue.

I don’t disagree one bit on that, a big crowd puller, I recently played against Paul Gallen and Adrian Morley something I thought I’d never do in my life time so I get the wow factor but if it goes boobies up I can’t see him playing in the championship.

I can’t either. But for a lot of fans this is a once in a life time opportunity to see a true rugby superstar play at our club. Hopefully it’ll put a few hundred on the gate.

great for the game and great for Toronto
if they have the money they need to make a splash in their first year - well played I say.

You keep saying this but it makes no sense to me

Yes in a circus freak kind of the way it’s interesting but nothing more, it’s a truly naive way of viewing the game IMHO.

He’s too old to build a team around so in RL terms it’s a weak signing to a team that is weak to start with, one that needs depth more than star turns.

However, what really stinks to me is that it one more example of why this club is unsustainable in the future. So I ask you again and please no more fairy stories, when the money runs out and it will, how without any domestic infra structure will Toronto survive?

It won’t, it’s all pie in the sky until somebody makes them address the issue. All other SL clubs create juniors something you seem to support so how can you exempt Toronto, it should have been a pre- requisite imo, it would have been for Fev!

Im not sure how he will cope with week in week out rugby. No doubt Sonnys provided magic moments in both codes but not sure he will provide anything like the impact he used to. Im sure hes also been offered a share in the club and maybe a promotional type of position will take stage .

I don't really buy the idea of x or y journeyman player saying "he's getting that - why can't I?" because the answer is quite simple.

Bigger picture - this money is TWP's to spend, and they've made a decision to go for a big impact, star signing, to generate some razzmatazz around their entry to SL; fair play to them - it might work, it might not, and if it's the latter, it will have absolutely no impact on any other team.

If nothing else, it will probably add a couple of hundred female walk-ups to most games; my OH describes him as the most beautiful man she's ever seen - which obviously didn't bother me at all.

Have Toronto paid their creditors yet?