OK Easty, go and ask the Sheffileld fans right now if they had a choice between losing Taulapapa, Yere or Togagae. You will not find one Eagles fan that would not prefer to lose Taulapapa. Surely you've been watching the Championship games? It's obvious he's not as talented as the other two Islanders.

if he is on 100k then no way

if he is on 20k as a squad player, he is worth the risk.

Which he won't be....

Totally irrelevant. The point I was making had nothing to do with income. It was purely comparing his ability to Sheffields other imports. I'm not trolling, as you can see by my praise towards Paea. Taulapapa is weak, and whatever wage he's on, it won't be worth keeping a talented youngster out of the side for.

O/T a bit...

But if you were a player in the Championship, maybe been let go by a SL academy, but you've become a regular first-team player and by your mid-20s a stand-out player in that division. You'd maybe be on £15, 20, 25k? Plus the income from your day job. Is moving to SL, to be a squad player, probably on a 1 or 2 year contract that means you'd need to take a career break and doesn't offer much more nett income going to be very attractive?

Not really, I can remember someone telling me ages ago that a lot of lads who could have signed pro deals, but at the lower end of the spectrum, preferred to stay as major players in the conference as they could work and have the chance of a BARLA tour to Australia.

I was referring to Sheffield imports on the whole. You made no mention of this seasons imports alone.

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Aw that's old news

What will he be on?

Well, all the others in my cursed Rovers Xmas greeting card last year are on their way out, so it's pretty much a certainty.
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Dunno.

But anybody who seriously thinks they can just sign any player on what amounts to little more than an acadamy contract really are kidding themselves. If i were a gambling man i'd say he would be on at least twice that amount.

Then you will be shocked at how much Dowes, Washbrook and Whiting are all on at Hull then!!

All those players are on considerably more than £20k.

He might have meant they are on less than 40k, as you said MT would be on twice 20. Still low, but more realistic.