Fifita set for meeting with defending Premiers
But let’s step away from this game for just a moment and bring Michael Chambers from the 9 newsroom who’s across all the latest NRL news. And Michael we mentioned before David Feta, he’s on his way to Sydney. Which club is he meeting with? Yeah, Danica. David Faida has flown into Sydney and we’ll meet with Penrith Panthers coach Ivan Cleary discuss his future, potentially joining the Penrith Panthers next season. Now the Panthers, they’re interested. They’ve expressed interest in his services. It hasn’t gone to the point of an offer, but they do want to meet with David Fafida to discuss his motivation for potentially leaving the Gold Coast Titans. They do have close to $1,000,000 in the salary cap now available to them. The James Fisher Harris decided that he wanted to leave the club on compassionate grounds to join the Warriors next year. Now David Fafida, he has an option in his contract with the Titans. He has until round 10 to trigger that option worth around $1,000,000 a season to remain at the Titans. Now I’m told that if he stays at the Titans, he has until the first game of the round till Thursday night to make that decision to take up the option Penrith. In the meantime, they’ll have discussions with Davida to work out whether or not they’ll make a play for his services.