Segeyaro would have got a payout when he left the Panthers.
The problem with the Segeyaro situation is that if he leaves at the end of the year we're right back where we were last year, scraping around the NRL bargain bins looking for a replacement. Whilst every NRL club has at least one hooker they're not all that good IMO - relatively poor ones include Lichaa at the Dogs, Mitch Rein (who has been mentioned a lot on here) and McInnes at the Rabbits.
As an aside a lot of our problems at hooker relate to Burrow. He's never a regular starting 9, but his presence and guaranteed bench spot means its difficult to justify signing a third hooker just on standby unless they can play second row or similar. Add to that his stature requiring defensive reorganisation that is less and less justified by the pluses he brings as his pace diminishes and its getting very hard from a pure playing perspective to justify him being in the squad.
