Insurance sticking point in Perenara’s move

TJ Perenara has just one more hurdle to overcome before his move to the Sydney Roosters can be completed.

According to the Daily Telegraph,

the former All Black halfback needs to sort out income protection insurance, so that he is financially covered if he picks up a serious injury.

The 29-year-old is negotiating the still carries with it uncertainties because of the pandemic.

In a Lions squad that largely reflected this year’s highly competitive Six Nations, England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland all had eight to 11 representatives.

Eight Scots is the country’s highest number since 1989, perhaps showing the influence Scotland coach Gregor Townsend – one of Gatland’s assistants – had on selection.

Jones, tour captain for the first time and in his fourth straight Lions squad, is one of 10 players from Six Nations champion Wales. code switch on a contract worth AU$150,000 (NZ$161,400) for the rest of the NRL season.

But the Daily Telegraph says the 69-test All Black and his management team are trying to find an insurance company willing to take him on for his full value, rather than what the Roosters will pay him for the rest of 2021.

Perenara usually earns around

England had 11, a lower-thanexpected contingent which highlighted the team’s struggles in the Six Nations but included Sam Simmonds – a No 8 without a test cap since March 2018.

Quite why Simmonds has been ignored by Jones is a mystery, given he is the reigning European player of the year and a superstar for European champion Exeter.

Ireland’s eight players did not include 35-year-old Sexton, a player Townsend called one of the ‘‘best players in the world’’.

Owen Farrell, Dan Biggar and $600,000 a season playing rugby, either in Japan on New Zealand, but under a standard NRL contract he would only be covered for what he picks up from the Roosters if he suffers a career ending injury.

That money is for a maximum of two years.

So if Perenara was unfortunate to have an injury with the Roosters which would force him into an early

Finn Russell were the first fiveeighths chosen by Gatland, setting up what could prove to be the most competitive selection fights anywhere in the squad for the test series.

Other leading players overlooked were England pair Kyle Sinckler and Jonny May, and Ireland lock James Ryan. retirement, he’d only get paid $322,800, rather than $1.2 million.

Perenara is trying to find an insurance company willing to take him on at his true value, rather than what he’ll get paid as a mid-season recruit, the Daily Telegraph said.

Roosters coach Trent Robinson is expected to announce next week whether the Perenara deal is either on or off.