@alien said:Did Wests Tigers tell Moltzen he could sign with another club, or just say he can shop around because they might not be able to keep him???
X2 100%. There is a difference.
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@alien said:Did Wests Tigers tell Moltzen he could sign with another club, or just say he can shop around because they might not be able to keep him???
@Chris said:The thing that annoys me most about this is everything was fine when Moltzen was playing poorly. He hit some form at the end of the season and now his move to the Dragons is an issue. If in fact, Stephen Humphreys mentioned back when the deal was done between Moltzen and the dragons, why didn't he nip it in the butt then? Was the club waiting to see if Moltzen improved and used the situation as a safety cushion? As far as I'm concerned is that the club told Moltzen to look elsewhere, he did and signed a contract. Moltzen and the club should do the right thing now and honor that contract. The fact he's found form now is simply our bad luck. If the dragons want him, Moltzen needs to go. If the dragons and Tigers come to an amicable agreement then I'm happy for him to stay. I'll be disappointed if we keep Moltzen with the dragons left high and dry. Makes us look bad and it's simply not right.
@softlaw said:Contract law has so many grey areas that this could get real messy, real quickly.
& if we're looking at having Moltzen at 7 to replace Lui then I think we're asking for trouble. His passing game is not good enough for the halves **and he's another player who will fit right in to not taking the safe option and kicking to the corner with a few minutes to go a la the Warriors game.**
@Swordy said:@alien said:Did Wests Tigers tell Moltzen he could sign with another club, or just say he can shop around because they might not be able to keep him???
X2 100%. There is a difference.
@smeghead said:If he is retained and played at half I guess our centres and wingers have at least a full season of being run out of space on the flanks and poorly positioned etc
@GNR4LIFE said:funny how the DT said Humpty was unavailable for comment, yet he provided the SMH with a couple of quotes. Speaks volumes for the Terrorgraph
@Yossarian said:The track record of people wanting to get out of contracts to remain at their present clubs seems to be pretty close to 100%. It's hard to remember too many cases when someone dug their heels in but was still forced to move. Add to that the (apparent) fact that Moltzen is still signed to play here in 2012 and I'd be betting that TM will be a Tiger in 2012\. Whether this situation voids his contract at the Saints for 2013-14 is another matter.
@underdog said:@GNR4LIFE said:funny how the DT said Humpty was unavailable for comment, yet he provided the SMH with a couple of quotes. Speaks volumes for the Terrorgraph
The Tigers do not talk to the Telegraph.
Period.
Makes them (the telegraph) look like hacks when they say the Tigers were not available, then the SMH has a paragraph or 10 from Benji, Sheens, Ayshford, the Tigers Ball boy, some guy in a tigers jersey, and Barry O'Farrell
@innsaneink said:@Yossarian said:The track record of people wanting to get out of contracts to remain at their present clubs seems to be pretty close to 100%. It's hard to remember too many cases when someone dug their heels in but was still forced to move. Add to that the (apparent) fact that Moltzen is still signed to play here in 2012 and I'd be betting that TM will be a Tiger in 2012\. Whether this situation voids his contract at the Saints for 2013-14 is another matter.
You seem pretty cluey Yoss.
Do you think Taubers verbal to the dragons gives them any leg up at all?
_**Moltzen's manager, Martin Tauber, will meet with Tigers chief executive Stephen Humphreys today over the utility back's future. He has already secured a verbal agreement from Humphreys that Moltzen will be released from the final year of his Tigers contract, enabling him to officially join the Dragons and potentially be a replacement for Darius Boyd at fullback.
Tauber spoke with Dragons chief executive Peter Doust and next year's coach Steve Price yesterday and assured them the Tigers would not stop the move. ''They're not going to stand in his way,'' Tauber said.**_