Willie Mason

So Sharon Reardon, I've heard on several podcasts now about Kiwis being ineligible for tax breaks.

So I'm not sure if the players from the islands will be able to either.

Also, someone said it might benefit the Waas if that was the case.

This is obviously a Warriors fan.

Love the podcast.

And then this one comes from Kai Bacorp.

surely English players will also be ineligible for the tax exemption if New Zealand players are.

So can you give us some clarity around that, Shem?

Have you looked into that or is that something that's still part of a process?

Polynesians from South Auckland and New Zealand, Sham, who moved to Australia.

I didn't start my family until life after footy sham.

And I said to you yesterday, if I was, say, finishing up at Para and being a sort of middle-tier player and I was offered, say, 250 or 200 grand, which I got to go to Manly, and you –

We're in discussions with this in my management about coming over here for the same price.

I would heavily consider it after visiting here, but I would treat it, and this is just telling you straight up, and we had this conversation yesterday, I would treat it as maybe a two-year window.

Is that something that you'd be open to even hearing as a general manager going, all right, there are players that might be coming for...

um to set themselves up financially there might only be a couple of years they might have that mindset but they're willing it doesn't mean necessarily that i'm not going to rip in for you for two years and just treat it as okay are you open to that sort of conversations with players and understanding that maybe guys that don't have them because if i was and then this is the second part of it like later on um if i if i did have a family i consider it for probably a little bit longer because i've been over now seeing the facilities and it would be important who the other families are too

In the early years, like in the early first couple of years.

I just want to quickly go to this one because it aligns with the stadium.

So this one comes from UpUp Manly.

Hey, Scope, not sure if this has been discussed much, but I was wondering if you could get some insight from Seamus on this.