Official: Trent Hodkinson signs with the Sharks

Any footballer ruling out a club as potential money earner is stupid. The whole idea is to play strong have every club want you and use that to get the best deal you can with the club you want.
In a year or two, he will be older and assuming wiser, he may then reconsider his options but for the time being he don't want us.
 
BargeArse said:
If Roosters win the premiership, it won’t be because of him, he’ll just be a piece of the puzzle.

He’s a great talent, a natural athlete, and an absolute freak with the ball.. but that’s when he’s switched on. He’s inconsistent and comes in and out of games. He also needs work defensively. He started last year terribly which is why he got dropped. Someone with that amount of talent should never be dropped due to performance. To be fair, he’s still very young.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to have him, but at the money he’d be demanding? I don’t know. I really question his attitude, how trustworthy he is, and what he would do to the culture. I’m pulling for the kid. If he gets it all together, he’s a Kangaroo.
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Yeah definitely agree but try not to overlook the fact that he's basically the same age as Ponga. Inconsistency, poor defense, it's all to be expected. If he's doing it at 22/23 then ill agree that he's just a douche
 
Aidos said:
Latrell doesn't like Newcastle.

No chance.
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When players say that kind of **** I take it with a grain of salt. At the end of the day, when he's off-contract, we put a lucrative offer on the table & the chance to get closer to home, with old Roosters mates plus the boys he already knows at the Knights, I doubt he will brush us off with no consideration. Players may hold grudges as young guys, but when they're having to make proper, professional financial decisions, they enter the real world. As long as he doesn't go off the rails in the next few years, I won't be surprised at all to see him at the Knights one day.
 
IMO these players tend to play their best footy very early in their careers then fade away as they dont train well and cant continue to just wing it on sheer skills.

Anyway this is all pie in the sky stuff. Mitchell isnt coming here.

We have our game breaking freak talent in Ponga.
 
Mitchell will amount to nothing.

Such a lazy player and will waste all the natural ability that he has got. A mental midget as well and goes missing when the going gets tough.

Doesn't like to defend and put his body on the line. He really should try the NFL where he don't have to tackle anyone.
 
Joshhh said:
I dreamt a couple months ago we signed him after we were signing all the Roosters boys & becoming the Newcastle Roosters. To think we legit signed him & seeing him shown off by the club in a Knights jersey to fill that last centre spot really did conjur thoughts of whether we could go the whole way. We'd have to be some sort of chance at him, close to home, plenty of ex teammates, there's been rumours he was leaving the Roosters for about a year now.
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No more pickled onions for you at bed time bucko!
 
Latrell Mitchell is a freak and is fit fast and strong with all the skills.... He is a game breaker who will only get better and anyone that wouldn't want him in a backline with Ponga , Skd , Moga , Ross , Pearce and Watson or Lamb is nuts...Throw the book at him and get his backside back here ...
 
I wouldn’t be throwing the book at him. But right now I don’t think he could derail our club. 2 year contract 400k a season would be fair. Centres probably do the least out of the 13.
 
Mitchell played wing for Australian schoolboys because Braden Robson had the centre position locked up.
 
There will be PLENTY of clubs after Latrell Mitchell, when is his contract up with the Roosters anyway? I can't see the Roosters with their majic pudding salary cap letting him go anywhere.
 
Back to the topic of Trent Hodkinson.
That the club is paying $465k or there abouts to play for another club is sickening!!!
 
packo said:
I wouldn’t be throwing the book at him. But right now I don’t think he could derail our club. 2 year contract 400k a season would be fair. Centres probably do the least out of the 13.
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Most of that $465,000 was paid last year for Hodko wasn't it , so we should have most of that back in the cap this season .....I like Sione and i don't mind him going back to centre but Mitchell is worth more at centre than Sione $600,000 i reckon , we were paying Gags more than that ...
 
Lord of the Skraelings said:
But Sione's got potential and Bennett said he is the next club captain and our future.
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He already has been captain, and very likely still part of the clubs long term future.

No one cares what Bennett said. Sione was a sensation because he was so advanced for an 18 year old. He was by far the best 18 year old in the country in 2014. That's where the hype came from
 
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