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Recruitment NRL Rumoured Player Movements, Re-signings and Rumour Mill 2023-2024
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Dixpat
In Andy we (have to) trust
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Has to do something with his time while he is suspended - this seems as good as anybasically saying hell test the market.
Jack Wighton considers making a raid on NRL open market
Jack Wighton could be on the move for the first time in his NRL career, telling Canberra he...www.portnews.com.au
Doubt he will leave.
I would question whether guthos personality would actually contribute to team harmony.....in a losing side he is probably to the detriment
john nick
Geoff Public
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He's 30. Our improved results may change things, but players want a 3 year contract to come to God's Own. So I'd pass .
Noitall
Dolphins sounds the likely club at the moment.
snake77
Good to see Herbert has picked up another contract. I like the way he plays always puts in a lot of effort.
Released on compassionate grounds. Need a contract in France to relax and drink some nice French wine and travel Europe.
snake77
Wighton apparently hasn't tested the market before. Fair enough if he's 30 and looking at his last contract.
He can go back to the Raiders with a fair market value.
He can go back to the Raiders with a fair market value.
Noitall
Must be to cover the Joliffe injury, they even paid a transfer fee.
Navigator
Christchurch Born n bred white bait fed.
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Behind a pay wall sorry...Jack Wighton asks for a release from the Raiders
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Revealed: Jack Wighton speaks with Dolphins over bombshell move to become marquee man
The NRL’s newest team the Dolphins have emerged as a surprise option for Canberra Raiders ace Jack Wighton after the Green Machine pivot revealed plans to test his value on the open market.Wighton, 30, has a clause in his contract allowing the 2020 Dally M Medal winner to test his value on the open market prior to round 10.
Fox League has learned Wighton has spoken to Dolphins officials about the prospect of joining the NRL’s 17th team in 2024.
Noitall
The battle for Jack Wighton has hit overdrive with 10 NRL rivals expressing interest and ready to pay up to $1.3 million for the NSW Origin dynamo.
News Corp can reveal more than half the 17-team NRL competition has formally contacted Wighton’s management following revelations Australia’s World Cup match-winner is putting himself on the open market.
For the first time in 14 years, the Raiders ace wants to test his value as a free agent.
Within 12 hours of Wighton’s Green Machine bombshell, at least 10 NRL rivals had contacted his management keen to open negotiations, led by Parramatta, Wests Tigers, Newcastle and New Zealand Warriors.
It is understood the Titans are watching the Wighton development closely, while the 30-year-old’s management had initially sounded out the Dolphins last year about their possible interest in the 2020 Dally M Medallist.
Wighton, currently on around $850,000 at Canberra, is said to be seeking a four-year deal from a prospective club, which would represent the final contract of his decorated career.
One club is prepared to pay $1.3 million annually, meaning a four-year package would be worth $5.2 million and see Wighton join Mitchell Moses, Nathan Cleary, Ben Hunt, Kalyn Ponga and Daly Cherry-Evans as the code’s top earners.
The Eels are on the lookout for a strike weapon to help Clint Gutherson and the signing of Wighton would give Parramatta the option of interchanging the pair between fullback and centre to complement the Moses-Dylan Brown halves alliance.
Moses last week agreed to stay at Parramatta until the end of 2028, while Brown, 22, late last year re-signed with the Eels until the end of 2031.
Wighton, 30, joined the Raiders as a teenager before developing into one of the world’s best footballers.
This is the first time since making his NRL debut with the club in 2012 that the NSW State of Origin and Kangaroos representative has gone down the path of contemplating leaving the Raiders.
The shock decision has surprised even some of Wighton’s closest supporters, who were of the belief the star five-eighth would take up an option in his current contract that immediately triggered an extension for 2024.
The contract clause states that Wighton has until round 10 – five more rounds following this weekend – to trigger the automatic extension for 2024.
However, Wighton has told Raiders CEO Don Furner and head coach Ricky Stuart he plans to test his worth on the open market.
The Raiders are willing to fight to keep their hugely influential playmaker.
“Jack’s quite within his rights to test the market,’’ Furner told News Corp.
“He’s been incredibly loyal to us for 14 seasons, he’s never once gone out and tested the market.
“He has our full support. He knows that we’re going to do everything we can to keep him and extend him.
“But being possibly his last contract, he has to do what is right for his young family and we fully understand and appreciate that.”
Wighton’s bold decision quickly reverberated around the game on Tuesday and it’s the Dolphins, Tigers and Eels that took immediate interest in the development.
Wighton’s availability for 2024 comes after a matter of days after that the Tigers failed with their mega-offer to sign Moses from Parramatta.
They have shown they are willing to invest in an elite five-eighth with Moses’ value of around $1.3 million similar to what would be required to pull Wighton out of Canberra.
The key for the Tigers is their salary cap has flexibility with only one member of their spine contracted beyond next year in dummy-half Api Koroisau.
Both their halves Luke Brooks and Brandon Wakeham are off-contract, so too is fullback Daine Laurie, while Adam Doueihi has a one-year deal.
After initially running into stumbling blocks in terms of landing a marquee recruit, the Dolphins recently struck a double-blow against arch rivals the Brisbane Broncos by signing Queensland prop Tom Flegler and England international Herbie Farnworth for 2024.
Adding Wighton to the Dolphins roster next season would be viewed as another major coup for the NRL’s newest club.
A one-club man with 224 first-grade games, the mere thought of Wighton leaving the Raiders would seem impossible for many fans.
He sits eighth on the all-time list of most games played for the Raiders, has captained the club, won the Clive Churchill Medal in the Raiders’ 14-8 grand final loss to the Roosters in 2019 and was named the game’s best player a year later.
Despite holding down the Raiders five-eighth spot in recent seasons, Wighton has proven at Origin level he is an equally physical and skilful presence at centre.
Wighton has also proven himself as an NRL fullback during his tenure at the Raiders, which could also prove a valuable selling point.
Currently suspended for two matches following a high shot against Newcastle last weekend, Wighton’s decision to go to the open market would undeniably be influenced by the huge money many of his rival halves have recently secured.
Sounds like we’re one of the teams interested in Wighton. Wonder if it’s the halves or centre we see him at the Warriors.
News Corp can reveal more than half the 17-team NRL competition has formally contacted Wighton’s management following revelations Australia’s World Cup match-winner is putting himself on the open market.
For the first time in 14 years, the Raiders ace wants to test his value as a free agent.
Within 12 hours of Wighton’s Green Machine bombshell, at least 10 NRL rivals had contacted his management keen to open negotiations, led by Parramatta, Wests Tigers, Newcastle and New Zealand Warriors.
It is understood the Titans are watching the Wighton development closely, while the 30-year-old’s management had initially sounded out the Dolphins last year about their possible interest in the 2020 Dally M Medallist.
Wighton, currently on around $850,000 at Canberra, is said to be seeking a four-year deal from a prospective club, which would represent the final contract of his decorated career.
One club is prepared to pay $1.3 million annually, meaning a four-year package would be worth $5.2 million and see Wighton join Mitchell Moses, Nathan Cleary, Ben Hunt, Kalyn Ponga and Daly Cherry-Evans as the code’s top earners.
The Eels are on the lookout for a strike weapon to help Clint Gutherson and the signing of Wighton would give Parramatta the option of interchanging the pair between fullback and centre to complement the Moses-Dylan Brown halves alliance.
Moses last week agreed to stay at Parramatta until the end of 2028, while Brown, 22, late last year re-signed with the Eels until the end of 2031.
Wighton, 30, joined the Raiders as a teenager before developing into one of the world’s best footballers.
This is the first time since making his NRL debut with the club in 2012 that the NSW State of Origin and Kangaroos representative has gone down the path of contemplating leaving the Raiders.
The shock decision has surprised even some of Wighton’s closest supporters, who were of the belief the star five-eighth would take up an option in his current contract that immediately triggered an extension for 2024.
The contract clause states that Wighton has until round 10 – five more rounds following this weekend – to trigger the automatic extension for 2024.
However, Wighton has told Raiders CEO Don Furner and head coach Ricky Stuart he plans to test his worth on the open market.
The Raiders are willing to fight to keep their hugely influential playmaker.
“Jack’s quite within his rights to test the market,’’ Furner told News Corp.
“He’s been incredibly loyal to us for 14 seasons, he’s never once gone out and tested the market.
“He has our full support. He knows that we’re going to do everything we can to keep him and extend him.
“But being possibly his last contract, he has to do what is right for his young family and we fully understand and appreciate that.”
Wighton’s bold decision quickly reverberated around the game on Tuesday and it’s the Dolphins, Tigers and Eels that took immediate interest in the development.
Wighton’s availability for 2024 comes after a matter of days after that the Tigers failed with their mega-offer to sign Moses from Parramatta.
They have shown they are willing to invest in an elite five-eighth with Moses’ value of around $1.3 million similar to what would be required to pull Wighton out of Canberra.
The key for the Tigers is their salary cap has flexibility with only one member of their spine contracted beyond next year in dummy-half Api Koroisau.
Both their halves Luke Brooks and Brandon Wakeham are off-contract, so too is fullback Daine Laurie, while Adam Doueihi has a one-year deal.
After initially running into stumbling blocks in terms of landing a marquee recruit, the Dolphins recently struck a double-blow against arch rivals the Brisbane Broncos by signing Queensland prop Tom Flegler and England international Herbie Farnworth for 2024.
Adding Wighton to the Dolphins roster next season would be viewed as another major coup for the NRL’s newest club.
A one-club man with 224 first-grade games, the mere thought of Wighton leaving the Raiders would seem impossible for many fans.
He sits eighth on the all-time list of most games played for the Raiders, has captained the club, won the Clive Churchill Medal in the Raiders’ 14-8 grand final loss to the Roosters in 2019 and was named the game’s best player a year later.
Despite holding down the Raiders five-eighth spot in recent seasons, Wighton has proven at Origin level he is an equally physical and skilful presence at centre.
Wighton has also proven himself as an NRL fullback during his tenure at the Raiders, which could also prove a valuable selling point.
Currently suspended for two matches following a high shot against Newcastle last weekend, Wighton’s decision to go to the open market would undeniably be influenced by the huge money many of his rival halves have recently secured.
Sounds like we’re one of the teams interested in Wighton. Wonder if it’s the halves or centre we see him at the Warriors.
john nick
Cannot see him coming here
Would have to be a centre but not for me
Jay M
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No, we're good for centres. Surely we'd turn him into a back-rower. We can never have too many of those...
Noitall
Hard to say if it’s the player or an insight into the positions we may be looking to strengthen that we’ve shown interest here. Obviously a decent offer we’ve made when it has to be over $850k for him to consider leaving the raiders. Still feel like the dolphins is where he’ll end up.
Great player but at 30 it is risky paying $1.3m at least, for four years. Good luck at the Dolphins.
Ever Hopeful
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He is a great centre, but wouldn't sign his next contract for centre money, so a pass for me. I can't see him enjoying the Auckland night life either.
Noitall
Could see the dolphins doing really well with him, Farnsworth, Flegler and possibly more after what they’ve shown so far. Early days and it might be a fairytale at the moment for the dolphins but teams are recruiting well and the comp has evened up whether it continues.
snake77
I can't see him coming here and to be honest where he'd fit.
He's more likely to test the market and sign with the Raiders on a fair amount or sign somewhere else likely a high profile club a chance for a premiership over the next few years. Or the new boys after seeing how they go this year.
I know they make a big deal out of one club players but he has still been there a long time. Moving on might freshen him up a but, look at Reynolds at the Broncos.
He's more likely to test the market and sign with the Raiders on a fair amount or sign somewhere else likely a high profile club a chance for a premiership over the next few years. Or the new boys after seeing how they go this year.
I know they make a big deal out of one club players but he has still been there a long time. Moving on might freshen him up a but, look at Reynolds at the Broncos.
Miket12
He’ll reject the Dolphins $1.5 million and the NRL will let him sign with the Roosters for the minimum salary.
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