Yeah it does seem like odd timing. I suspect it's more of a change to his salary, salary structure and bonuses across future years and they just whacked on an extra 2 years.

[quote="The Whiffy Kipper":dyeot5bx]He's decent enough but he is no Mark Riddell[/quote:dyeot5bx] Piggy was a great controlling half. To get gear out of O’Neil in the NRL he’d have to go to one of the teams with a really good 7, which there is a bit of a lack of at the moment, hence Dodd being on $700k deal apparently.

[quote="The Whiffy Kipper":1i6forni]He's decent enough but he is no Mark Riddell[/quote:1i6forni] Or Sam Powell?

[quote="MattyB":1tqerrc5]Or Sam Powell?[/quote:1tqerrc5] He's way better than Powell, whom we have never missed

Games I`ve seen O`Neil play he is by far the better option between Leeming and him. When Leeming played for us he did do the flashy stuff taking on the line and scoring similar to Dwyer when he was with us. But more often than not he and Dwyer would run on the last and the rest of the team didn`t have a clue what they were doing. O`Neil looks hard as nails and doesn`t back down. He reminds me of the old school hookers in their days.

I still think he's likely to move to 13 if/when Ellis goes back to Aus. If we still have Leeming and Forber on the books...