Quote Originally Posted by Guerny View Post
It is sorted... Brenan is the mature age rookie



It's the contract (2yrs) that can be classed as a "mature age rookie" contract, not the player.

Otherwise you sign a mature age rookie and only his first season can be taken out of the salary cap, which would make managing your cap in subsequent years a total pain in the arse.
Except that he is not.

You have missed the point being that Brennan never was the Jets Mature Age Rookie last season nor has the club ever made any statement saying he was. Infact every statement they made was we did not the budget to take advantage of these concessions. And they were right. The Jets had the minimum 20 player squad last season. To sign a mature age rookie we would have needed to sign another player as the rookie is outside the cap and not included in the squad.

My money is that Parris's article was wrong or hypothetical, citing an unnamed FFA source with no quote from either club or FFA . I would bet one of the three left behind from China leave the club before the season starts and the Chinese player is signed.