Tongan Thor Taniela Tupou set to snub New Zealand and defect to Australia

[Alison]

Has Queensland even heard of the salary cap?

Get with the programme Sheikh - salary caps have infinite elasticity for the eastern states teams!

[valzc]

Fox reporting he's signing with the Reds...

Foxsports

Hahahaha! Now THERE's a surprise! ARUs opened the Xmas box early for the Reds have they - what a frikken joke!

[Tonkar]

Hey dont knock the Salary Cap at Qld reds they do it all by the book (A cook book ) Dont you remember the reds Membership rose by 15 to 20 K at the end of the season to 45 or 50 k members... Well the ARU have a new system and if you have more than so many members you can have any player you like and We The ARU will over look any over payments to players...

The ARU are a corrupt joke and I think it is time they opened the books to the rugby community and come clean on payments

[Herbasimplex]

But they still have Richard Graham. Put it all in context.

[Alison]

Graham is quoted as saying he will 'seek to further develop Thor's game, adding to an impressive skill base'..............

[Alison]

Am interested in the 'mum' angle too. Will she be moving here? If so, am interested in how she will qualify for a permanent residency visa. Does Tonga have a similar arrangement with Aus as NZ does?

[valzc]

Graham is quoted as saying he will 'seek to further develop Thor's game, adding to an impressive skill base'..............

Dick Graham wouldn't know a skill base if he fell over it. Someone better explain to him what it actually is. Warning bells should go up in Thor's head with ......."further develop Thor's game"

[Tonkar]

Am interested in the 'mum' angle too. Will she be moving here? If so, am interested in how she will qualify for a permanent residency visa. Does Tonga have a similar arrangement with Aus as NZ does?

Not sure if Australia has a Visa arrangement but QLD does they invite anyone and it will be ok... As for getting around the Salary Cap I recon they invited MUM over and have a 3 rd party deal at a food outlet..and a State housing commission house .... Easy done deal

[jargan83]

Not sure if Australia has a Visa arrangement but QLD does they invite anyone and it will be ok... As for getting around the Salary Cap I recon they invited MUM over and have a 3 rd party deal at a food outlet..and a State housing commission house .... Easy done deal

Classy...

[jono]

Not sure if Australia has a Visa arrangement but QLD does they invite anyone and it will be ok... As for getting around the Salary Cap I recon they invited MUM over and have a 3 rd party deal at a food outlet..and a State housing commission house .... Easy done deal

What's his mum got to do with it? And where do you get off suggesting they're bound for state housing?

[Tonkar]

Just telling you how the ARU will go about making sure this guy gets a start at the Reds Eastern States corruption..

I was not being serious about the 3rd party deal but just saying that's the sort of thing that the east does to get what they want..

Just amazes me how you have changed Jono and now have may a little bit of east coast in you now.. I would read your posts when you live in PT Kennedy and you were very anti eastern states...

[shasta]

Woosh!

[jono]

Just telling you how the ARU will go about making sure this guy gets a start at the Reds Eastern States corruption..

I was not being serious about the 3rd party deal but just saying that's the sort of thing that the east does to get what they want..

Just amazes me how you have changed Jono and now have may a little bit of east coast in you now.. I would read your posts when you live in PT Kennedy and you were very anti eastern states...

maybe...

OR, maybe it's because i'm not constantly flogging the dead horse of wild conspiracy theories/accusations based on nothing but the smell of an oily rag like yourself and a few others? (IE: As for getting around the Salary Cap I recon they invited MUM over and have a 3 rd party deal at a food outlet..and a State housing commission house).