Quote Originally Posted by borat View Post
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.
IIRC There were ascertions made last year that if we had been sold earlier to Thompson then we had the ability to move Brennan to Mature Age Rookie status and BK1 and 2 to long serving, if the new owner wanted to free up cap space. Brennan was signed under the rules which govern the rule, just because we went tight and did not choose to spend over does not change that his contract qualifies.