Roosters star\u2019s emotional Robbo moment after brutal double GF snub<\/a><\/p>\nFor that reason, foxsports.com.au\u2019s Paul Crawley understands the hesitation the club has to re-sign Mitchell on another rich deal.<\/p>\n
But Crawley said Souths are also playing with fire by not clearing up Mitchell\u2019s contract situation as it could mean the club miss out on some talented free agents.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can completely understand South Sydney\u2019s situation of wanting to hold off, because when you go through Latrell\u2019s recent history with injuries, and it\u2019s not his fault that he gets injured, but the fact is (he has played) 11, 11 and 12 games in the past three years. When you\u2019re talking marquee money, you just can\u2019t afford to do that,\u201d Crawley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they\u2019ve obviously looked at the situation and they want to put the club first. But also Souths have shown the respect to Latrell because they had him on top money and now he has to show that too. I\u2019m not saying he hasn\u2019t. He\u2019s been brilliant for Souths on so many occasions but you also have to get bang for buck.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe problem is that the November 1 deadline won\u2019t hold until the start of next season just because Souths want to hold off with Latrell. <\/p>\n
\u201cWith players like (Bradman) Best, Herbie (Farnworth) and (Jack) Bostock coming off-contract the talk around (Tom) Dearden, the uncertainty around Ezra Mam. All these sort of scenarios can play out and South Sydney will need to find money to sign these guys and yet you\u2019re holding off on your highest paid player until potentially March. <\/p>\n
\u201cEven in that, what will Latrell be able to show them other than coming back in good nick in February? How does that then give them certainty that that\u2019s going to transpire into a better run of injuries?\u201d<\/p>\n
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Regarding Walker, Riccio revealed that the Bunnies have increased their offer for next year to$400,000.<\/p>\n
Walker and his management were reportedly filthy with the club\u2019s initial offer of $300,000, believing the playmaker was low-balled.<\/p>\n
The 37-year-old playmaker is currently without a contract for next season, which is expected to be his final before hanging up the boots.<\/p>\n
He suffered a serious calf injury in the Rabbitohs\u2019 elimination final loss to the Knights but it\u2019s anticipated he\u2019ll be fine for the start <\/p>\n
\u201cThey have upped their offer. It absolutely had to happen and I thought it was going to happen,\u201d Riccio reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s key for them next year and I said it last week. South Sydney want Cody at the football club for the next decade. He\u2019s so important for their culture.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s probably fair,\u201d Crawley added. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a lot of talk that $300,000 was way unders but again, you\u2019re talking about a guy that\u2019s 37 years of age next year and is coming off a pretty significant calf injury, and again, the concern for Souths is not that Cody\u2019s not at his best. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he\u2019s on the field he\u2019s brilliant, but as you get older and you get these calf injuries and they get worse and worse, they have to have a something more than just Cody to rely on when they get into the back end of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Sydney have again committed to wait until next season to re-open extension talks with Latrell Mitchell but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-910335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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