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The Tom Jervis/Nate Jawai conspiracy theory thread

would the taipans really want Jawai and Jervis at the 5? they both bring roughly the same type of game..

Isaac

Stop making sense

Sincerely

Hoops

Alternatively: Taipans don't want to overpay Jawai and negotiations stall. They have Jervis at least. Later, Jervis wants out as the money:strain ratio just isn't there, he forewarns them and the announcement is made at whatever time suits Cairns. Meanwhile, that both frees up some money and puts them in more desperate need of any local centre, so they slightly increase their offer to Nate and he accepts. They time his signing announcement to come shortly after the Jervis news and soften the blow.

jawai lost 20 kgs in France. It was either his lack of eating French cuisine or his team had a great s&c crew

Yeah, I don't know how long they've been in Melbourne? Maybe they thought it was going to be temporary.
Maybe he was hopeful of a gig with SEM, and when that didn't happen he took what was on offer, but they then figured it wasn't worth the agro?
He seems pretty involved in his wife's business, so maybe that's really booming???

Regarding the timing, its no big deal. It's quite conceivable he told cairns a while back, but agreed to hold off on the announcement.

Nate's salary has been partly funded as part of some kind of community outreach fund since he came to Cairns. they couldn't afford him without it. it's common knowledge.

Yeah...... nek minnit you'll tell us that Jeffrey Epstein was killed by Hillary Clinton

If that’s what happened and it’s a big IF, it’s a pretty good plan so I can’t see that happening in Cairns.

call it a signing bonus or whatever but there has to be something in it for him.

I could see that being quite possible, the only real iffy part of it is the Tom Jervis on retainer thing but that could be true. It's not like his family situation changed between signing with Cairns and retiring he was always going to be commuting and did sign a 2 year deal so it was a bit odd that he then decided to retire.

it IS funny how nate's signing was announced a day after Jervis retirement.

I have it on pretty good authority that's basically what happened.

Hey I was looking up the ratings for this year in the NBL.. so far they are

In round 1, 21 thousand people tuned in for Wollongong vs Sydney
34 thousand for Adelaide vs Melbourne

Round 2, Sydney v Melbourne 49 thousand
Townsville v Perth 49 thousand

Round 3, Sydney Kings v Cairns Taipans 28 thousand
Melbourne Tigers v Perth Wildcats 81 thousand

and last night.. Melb Tigers v NZ Breakers 28 thousand


......

The 81 thousand of Perth and Melbourne is more then the highest ratings of last season, which was 58 thousand for game 3 of the grand final. and compring the numbers between seasons, some games the NNBL might get 9-13 thousand, and average was about 21... it seems were already averaging a few thousand more then that at this early stage... Come play off time could we be seeing 100 thousand +?

Also, do you think these are particularly good ratings for there timeslot? all I can say is they have improved...