He's signed for an NRL club, not HKR.

Get a grip.

Would you stay at Rhinos or Wire et al if the NRL came calling?

Hope he’s getting good advice … he’s moving to one of the most expensive areas of Sydney…

That said he’s got bags of talent… hope he gets the chance to show it!!

He’s got a point though, hasn’t he!
How many of our better products move on?
Just about 90% of them!

Not true not even close but let’s not let reality cloud the truth.

I think anyone with a brain can see that on this one it wouldn’t have mattered what we offered.

Here is a young man who clearly has unlimited ambition and total self belief. He doesn’t just think Trinity is to small for him he thinks SL is.

You can argue all day about Batch and Aydin but Murphy’s future was completely out of our control. It’s sad but in truth the only club he would have stayed for I suspect were if he’d been a Saints product but even that would be postponing the inevitable.

Yep, we can probably criticise the club for many recent ins and outs but it doesn't feel like this is one of em to me

Crazy to think how the tables have turned, it doesn't feel like 2 minutes since Aussie players were coming here for higher pay.

Now the lower grade players other there probably make more than first teamers here.

Good luck to Lewis can't blame him its too good of an opportunity to miss.

Oh ok, so how many with star quality such as murphy or TJ (other than Max Jowitt) are still at the club because I’m struggling to think of another?

Max will be on his at the end of the season whether we survive or not

How many with star quality like TJ did we ever have at the club??

Get a grip man !!!!

Maybe add Jordy Crowther to that.
Then theres Bowes and Eseh coming through, Eseh will be a wanted man no doubt, so not much chance of keeping him.

I understand market forces and ambition, but it's so disappointing to see these players leave after putting so much work and not a small amount of money into them.

We were told that The Academy was the way forward at the start of the 1873 Club to create our own players. Only to find, we can create them, but can not afford to pay them the market rates when matured.

Think you need to get a grip man.
Don’t put Jordy Crowther in the ‘star bracket’ because he ain’t !
I like jordy but not that much.
Bowes and Eseh - even IF they make it to ‘Star’ status will not stay if we continue as we have for the last twenty odd years!

Depends how far you want to go back ,
I’ve supported the club 60 plus years and I’ve seen countless players come through our junior set up of one kind of another and we’ve not been able to hold onto them. FACT .
TJ was class but there have been others in that bracket over the years as older supporters will confirm!