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Jarryd Hayne switch to rugby

Started by Brycy6 REPLIES358 VIEWS· 17 May 2016, 01:38
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BrycyPro4,671 posts
17 May 2016, 01:38
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17 May 2016, 01:38#1

...who else but Jarryd Hayne could make it into an Olympic Sevens team months out from Rio having never played rugby union in his entire life...


...speculation is he will switch back to league but his old club Parramata has already breached their salary cap so where to next for Jarryd Hayne..?


...RL clubs have only a matter of weeks to register him before this years cut off date..


...not that money is an issue as he will be playing for Fiji for love, but can see some of the big European clubs like Toulon making him multi million dollar offers for his services if the Hayne plane wishes to stay in rugby...


...alternatively a NSW team may also be an option so maybe the Tahs before trying to break into the Wallabies...

 

...can't see him breaking into the fifteen code somehow - speculation is he will go back to league with either the Knights or  Roosters...

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Monkey D LuffyPro6,277 posts
17 May 2016, 05:19
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17 May 2016, 05:19#2
i cant see how he would make the fiji team, he should have tried for the aussie sevens team.

fiji team right now is top team in 7s, no easy task when competing against SA and NZ who have the depth and resources to by all rights be ahead of them.
point is, who would u take out of the team just to make room for the grounded 49ers hayne plain???

had he tried to play for the aussies, it would have left the door open for the wallabies, so i think ur right and going back to league is almost a certainty.

about paramatta though, watchin nrl 360, paul kent mentioned that part of the salary cap breach was cos of hayne.
its also not uncommon for clubs to keep paying players even though they might be somewhere elsee, kind of like the whole sandow thing, so is hayne still in their books???

if hayne does go back to paramatta, then paramatta would have to send some more current players to join peats, lolz. hayne would be too good to turn away and eels do have first crack at him.
hayne, florean, radradra, jenning, pretty mean line up of superstars right there.
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BrycyPro4,671 posts
17 May 2016, 08:04
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17 May 2016, 08:04#3

...Sas, as you know Hayne used to play for Fiji in the RLWC before Australia decided they wanted him so great to see him going back ...he is a legend in Fiji , hero worshiped... says they want him in the team and he has Serevi's blessing..


..in answer to the question why wasn't he playing for Oz he answered ' they never asked me"


 ...can't see him playing rugby union long term tho... for Hayne it will probably be too slow, too many stoppages , less creative and less exciting than league , etc....am picking it will be a bidding war for his services....clubs will be tripping over themselves to sign him up..

...the question is who has the deepest pockets?..


...can't see him going back to Parra in a hurry tho due to the half a million in secret payments he allegedly received there....and the dust is still settling from that scandal ...

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Monkey D LuffyPro6,277 posts
17 May 2016, 08:58
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17 May 2016, 08:58#4
would be easier making the 7s OZ team IMO than the fiji team. oz needs him, fiji dosent.

had he inquired, im sure the ARU would have loved to have had his services, had the ARU secured it and hayne only ended up half as good as folau, the investment would have paid itself off twice over.
manager should be fired, but prob more an indication hes returning to league then anything else.

haynes connection to fiji and their national league team isnt that special, he only played for them cos he didnt make the aussie team. not saying he didnt enjoy his time there, but if it really meant that much to him, he still would have been there.
unlike league though, once he goes fiji, he can never go back.

all this makes me doubt his commitment to the NFL and IMO it was really only money he was after, not the challenge BS he conned everyone into believing.

dont know who has enough money to accommodate him, but if parra dosent clean out more players to make room, then he should try to get into a team that will get him a premiership before heading to the UK to get the almighty $$$.
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BrycyPro4,671 posts
17 May 2016, 11:03
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17 May 2016, 11:03#5

...as with Radarada doesn't make him any less proud of being a Fijian or of his Fijian heritage playing for Oz...just makes perfectly good business sense and with the money he's able to help his parents back in Fiji...so big incentives to play for Oz when they start waving their cheque book around...it's a a symbiotic relationship......if you play for Fiji yr playing for free whereas Aussie's giving Radrada 30k a game so it's a no brainer...that will be 160k if he makes it through to the next RLWC...easy money..


...but as Hayne has said the Olympic experience it's priceless....way back in 2014 Hayne was offered a place in the Fijian Sevens team if the NF L never worked out ...an arrangement made through his Fijian father so not such a spur of the moment decision to join up..

...but like you I have reservations about whether anyone can learn the game that fast and he may prove to be a liability to the team...we'll see what happens in the upcoming London leg...


...as for his commitment to NFL ...he was on the verge of getting dropped anyway, saw the writing was on the wall that he was about to be dumped and so he jumped before he was pushed...he achieved his dream of playing in the NRL so cross that one off the bucket list - been there, done that , got the t-shirt....time to move on..

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WardadPro6,663 posts
18 May 2016, 23:57
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18 May 2016, 23:57#6
 If I look at it from the view that it might bring the Fijians back towards the pack a bit then well done Jarrod !But I doubt he would get a run on in any important games ,and what of the poor dude he displaces ?
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bobbok...Captain10,129 posts
21 May 2016, 05:03
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21 May 2016, 05:03#7
 Heard onna radio last night that he has been selected for the Fijian team .
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