Warriors sign James Gavet, Tigers make a play for Souths forward Tim Grant

WARRIORS continue their recruitment drive, Tigers make a play for Tim Grant and an NRL player refuses to pay for a charity item he won at a club function auction.

Gold Coast Titans v South Sydney Rabbitohs at Cbus Stadium, Gold Coast. Rabbitohs Tim Grant. Picture by Scott Fletcher

WARRIORS continue their recruitment drive, Tigers make a play for Tim Grant and an NRL player refuses to pay for a charity item he won at a club function auction.

All that and more in this week’s Saint, Sinner, Shoosh:

SAINT

RUGBY league. Not one off-field atrocity during the Christmas break. Or not one we found out about anyway …

SINNER

THE NRL star who refused to pay for a big-ticket charity item after blowing his fellow bidders out of the water. “It was just a joke,’’ the representative player said when he was approached for payment. It might just have been the last nail in this troubled player’s coffin with senior club officials left fuming at his refusal to pay for the $10,000 item that was auctioned off at the club’s official end-of-season ball.

SPOTTED

NSW State of Origin captain Paul Gallen and former Kangaroo Brett Kimmorley became December “Dance Mums’’ with the league legends spotted at an end-of-year dance concert at the Hurstville Entertainment Centre. Gallen was in the female-heavy crowd to watch his daughter Matilda perform in the concert and was spotted taking a tip or two from dance veteran and father of four dancing daughters, Kimmorley.

Paul Gallen during Sharks pre-season training. Pic Brett Costello

ANOTHER MASSIVE DEAL

THE Warriors’ stunning season 2016 recruitment drive has continued with wrecking-ball forward James Gavet set to be announced as their latest signing. The bounce-about forward will join superstar signings Roger Tuivasa-Sheck and Issac Luke in New Zealand this week after the Brisbane Broncos released him. Gavet, 26, suffered a knee injury last year and is looking to resurrect his career back on home soil with the Warriors after stints with the Bulldogs and Tigers.

OUT TO OFFLOAD LLOYD

THE Bulldogs are looking to lighten their load by attempting to offload giant forward Lloyd Perrett before the season starts. Blessed with the biggest pack in the business, the Bulldogs have been shopping the 113kg monster to rival clubs as they look to free up salary cap cash.

The Bulldogs will free up as much as $900,000 over the next three years should they be able to find the brother of winger Sam a new NRL home.

TIGERS EYE GRANT GRAB

TIM Grant’s future at Redfern remains clouded with Wests Tigers making a huge play to snare the prop for the next three years. Grant was poised to sign with the Tigers late last month but was stopped by the Rabbitohs when they failed in their bid to snare Titans walkout James Roberts. The club was looking to offload Grant after signing Sam Burgess but made an 11th hour U-turn when Roberts opted to sign with the Broncos.

Originally published as Warriors sign James Gavet, Tigers make a play for Souths forward Tim Grant