{"id":94572,"date":"2021-07-03T06:38:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T06:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=94572"},"modified":"2021-07-03T07:58:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T07:58:14","slug":"vaughans-hilarious-response-to-lomaxs-salary-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=94572","title":{"rendered":"Vaughan&#039;s hilarious response to Lomax&#039;s salary reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St George Illawarra prop Paul Vaughan has found the humorous side of today&#x27;s NRL rich list reveal, using the game&#x27;s top earners as a way to poke fun at teammate Zac Lomax&#x27;s contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Telegraph today released the first half of its NRL top 100 rich list, in which the salaries of the game&#x27;s biggest earners were revealed.<\/p>\n<p>A number of Dragons players found themselves on the list, including Lomax who is said to be earning $650,000 per season.<\/p>\n<p>The list was brought to the attention of Vaughan, who took the opportunity to jokingly question his 21-year-old teammate&#x27;s salary.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I can&#x27;t believe what they&#x27;ve given Zac Lomax, that&#x27;s a bit of a gee-up!&quot; Vaughan told <em>Triple M<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"dac5f697-a57c-404b-9094-39fd70deb0cb\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/dac5f697-a57c-404b-9094-39fd70deb0cb\" alt=\"Paul Vaughan, Zac Lomax\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;He shouldn&#x27;t be earning that much.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I was just reading it&#8230; I will have a word to Ben Hunt, maybe he can shout me a coffee, he&#x27;s on bloody almost $3 million isn&#x27;t he?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Asked if players sit there and question to themselves their teammates&#x27; salaries, Vaughan jokingly took another shot at Lomax.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Yeah [they do]. That&#x27;s what I thought about Zac Lomax.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Discussing how some player salaries are recorded, the Dragons prop went on to explain: &quot;I&#x27;m sure players have incentives in their contracts, so if they register a milestone in their contract, I&#x27;m sure that won&#x27;t be published [in the list].&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Vaughan, who recently took up his player option for the Dragons next season, revealed he will look into his future beyond 2022 starting at the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"42ae127b-0887-45d5-9151-24be25b0efa4\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/42ae127b-0887-45d5-9151-24be25b0efa4\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;To be honest, probably November this year,&quot; he said. &quot;That&#x27;s when we can start seeing what the go is.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m coming up to my fifth year on contract at the Saints, it&#x27;s been a hell of a ride. I&#x27;m getting old now, I&#x27;m 31 next year.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Vaughan was then pressed on whether he would go to market and test out his value, before using Lomax&#x27;s contract as another excuse.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If the Saints didn&#x27;t give all our money to Zac Lomax then maybe&#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>St George Illawarra prop Paul Vaughan has found the humorous side of today&#x27;s NRL rich list reveal, using the game&#x27;s top earners as a way <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=94572\" title=\"Vaughan&#039;s hilarious response to Lomax&#039;s salary reveal\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94574,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94572\/revisions\/94574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}