One cannot help but wonder how true the rumours of Richardson being at the point of having those clauses removed were. Then HBG got upset about a predominantly orange jersey and pretended otherwise to remove him and board members.
Injuries aside, the team was humming along in second place with a 5-2 win record when Luai was allowed to visit and then sign with PNG. The replacement CEO has since stated that the signing was the reason that our season fell apart.
Worse still, WT will be paying him another half a million or so to play elsewhere in 27.