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       #Post#: 88082--------------------------------------------------
       Re: hugh tizard
   DIR By: Brown Bottle
       Date: April 7, 2022, 5:38 pm
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       --- Quote from: FatQuin link ---
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       > ... Good luck to him but Quins is bigger than one player- and
       if it isn’t we have a big problem.
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       Quins without Smith?
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       Re: hugh tizard
   DIR By: Quinten Poulsen
       Date: April 7, 2022, 6:47 pm
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       Oscar Beard. He'd fill the
       Tom-Williams-can-play-10/Matt-Hopper-can-play-10 role pretty
       well.
       #Post#: 88086--------------------------------------------------
       Re: hugh tizard
   DIR By: FatQuin
       Date: April 8, 2022, 2:04 am
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       --- Quote from: Brown Bottle link ---
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       > Quins without Smith?
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       Would be a huge loss but he wants to be a Quin and if he did
       ever leave, I’d rather the club continued.  wouldn’t you?  There
       was a time when we’d never replace Easter/Mo/Evans/Robbo/Brown.
       Until we did.
       #Post#: 88089--------------------------------------------------
       Re: hugh tizard
   DIR By: JammyGit
       Date: April 8, 2022, 3:01 am
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       I don't think it's fair to say he doesn't want to be here. It's
       largely down to money. If we could match what Sarries are
       offering him I'm sure he'd be playing for us next season.
       #Post#: 88091--------------------------------------------------
       Re: hugh tizard
   DIR By: Quinston Churchill
       Date: April 8, 2022, 3:26 am
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       --- Quote from: Only Joe Quin link ---
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       > Tizzard has turned out to be a fine young player and a credit
       to our academy. I’d have liked him to stay with us but he has
       decided to move on. So be it and I hope he does well. I don’t
       think it will have a significant impact on our squad next season
       or in the longer term. I’d rather focus on the abilities of the
       19 players who have committed to staying with us who, together
       with the players still under contact, will provide us with a
       very competitive squad next season.
       >
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       100% agree. I’m sad to see Tizard going, but the club is
       future-proofing. A significant chunk of the players we’ve
       extended are academy products who are the future of our first
       team. With further cuts to the cap and the new regs on EQPs,
       we’re getting ahead of the curve.
       #Post#: 88113--------------------------------------------------
       Re: hugh tizard
   DIR By: poorfour
       Date: April 8, 2022, 6:58 am
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       This reminds me a little of the time David Strettle left for
       Saracens. He was one of 5 senior players up for renewal that
       season, including Robshaw, Ugo, George Robson and I think Care.
       We were disappointed he left, but COS later explained that the
       decision they'd made under the cap was to tell the players they
       could only make 4 offers and would accept the first 4 over the
       line. Strettle was the one who chose to be the fifth.
       This isn't exactly the same, but it will be similar - the club
       will have had capacity to offer deals (probably involving pay
       cuts) to the players, but only so much room for upward
       negotiation.
       
       #Post#: 88136--------------------------------------------------
       Re: hugh tizard
   DIR By: FatQuin
       Date: April 8, 2022, 10:43 am
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       --- Quote from: JammyGit link ---
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       > I don't think it's fair to say he doesn't want to be here.
       It's largely down to money. If we could match what Sarries are
       offering him I'm sure he'd be playing for us next season.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       It’s not unfair.  It’s a fact.  He had a choice.  I don’t
       begrudge him more money.  But he doesn’t want to stay at Quins
       when balanced against (apparently) getting paid more elsewhere.
       He will leave and most of us hope he does well but he (and his
       dad) are not passive in this outcome.
       #Post#: 88138--------------------------------------------------
       Re: hugh tizard
   DIR By: JammyGit
       Date: April 8, 2022, 11:52 am
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       --- Quote from: FatQuin link ---
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       > It’s not unfair.  It’s a fact.  He had a choice.  I don’t
       begrudge him more money.  But he doesn’t want to stay at Quins
       when balanced against (apparently) getting paid more elsewhere.
       He will leave and most of us hope he does well but he (and his
       dad) are not passive in this outcome.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       You don't know whether he'd have stayed if Quins had matched the
       offer. That would tell us if he wanted to stay at Quins.
       I don't think we should denigrate players for taking a better
       offer elsewhere by suggesting they don't want to be here and
       negatively comparing them to other players - especially if we
       have no idea how those players would have responded to Quins not
       being able to match other offers.
       Professional sport is a short career and there's zero security
       for players. We've lost plenty of players in the past who loved
       it here and would love to have stayed but had to be realistic.
       #Post#: 88149--------------------------------------------------
       Re: hugh tizard
   DIR By: poorfour
       Date: April 8, 2022, 1:46 pm
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       Last year we had a player who was offered a deal he didn't want
       and went somewhere else, and we had six months of people
       insisting it was the club's fault.
       This year we've got a player who was offered a deal he didn't
       want and is going somewhere else and now it's his fault.
       Make your minds up.
       #Post#: 88151--------------------------------------------------
       Re: hugh tizard
   DIR By: DOK
       Date: April 8, 2022, 2:50 pm
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       Wasn't the player last year initially told he wasn't required?
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