Tigers grant Luai early release to free up salary cap space

In the shifting tides of professional sport, Jarome Luai — four-time premiership winner and emblem of Penrith's dynasty — will part ways with Wests Tigers a year before his contract demands, a quiet agreement that speaks to the eternal tension between honouring the past and financing the future. The Tigers, long constrained by the weight of a premium salary on a roster still searching for its identity, have chosen to redirect that $1.2 million annually toward younger hands and fresher ambitions. Luai, meanwhile, moves toward a historic role as the marquee signing for the PNG Chiefs' inaugural