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    • Sart0ri
      Sart0ri last edited by

      No more broken contracts: NRL’s bid to stop more Mattersons
      August 24, 2020 9:53am
      Source: FOX SPORTS

      The NRL is planing to put a stop to players attempting to break contracts with their current club to take up lucrative new deals with a rival side.
      The Sydney Morning Herald claims that the NRL are examining a proposal to put an end to players quitting clubs when they are enticed away by the lure of a big payday.

      The suggested ruling comes as a result of a number of recent cases including that of Ryan Matterson who quit the Tigers in bitter circumstances for a move to the Eels.

      The NRL will look at the option of banning clubs from tabling offers to players which would see them earn money with a rival club.

      Josh Addo-Carr could be the last to take advantage of the current rules as he seeks a return to his native Sydney.

      The Storm winger was given permission to speak to rival clubs after he cited family issues as the reason for his desire to leave Melbourne.

      He is still under contract with Melbourne until the end of next year and the Storm have listed a number of criteria that must be met to secure his signature.

      His new manager is said to now be shopping him around as a fullback and asking for $800,000 – a huge upgrade on his $400,000 deal – which has put the Storm off-side.

      “There will be a complete review in the off-season,” ARLC chairman Peter V’landys told The Herald.

      “I can assure you we will be addressing the frustrations of the fans.”

      The Storm had tried to engineer a swap deal with young Tiger Tommy Talau which would see Addo-Carr return to Concord.

      But Michael Maguire is understood to have knocked that proposition back

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      • avocadoontoast
        avocadoontoast last edited by

        I’m glad they’re waiting for us to give JAC a huge pay increase before changing the rules. Nice of them.

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        • tigger
          tigger last edited by

          Good move by Madge.
          I think we’ve seen enough of Talau to know that he has a bit of potential. I’d hate to see his name added to the long list of players in our “Laments” thread.
          I wouldn’t mind seeing JAC back here at the right price (for a winger) but not at the cost of young player like Talau.

          It will be interesting to see what V’landys comes up with regarding contracts. Not much info in this article.

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            Telltails last edited by

            Player managers will be scheming.

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              Russell @Telltails last edited by

              @Telltails said in NRL’s bid to stop more Mattersons:

              Player managers will be scheming.

              My heart bleeds for them.

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                Red88_Tiger last edited by

                They will just adjust contract to earn more after their current term would finish or upgrade at that time. Can’t really see how they can stop them fully.

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                • trentrunciman
                  trentrunciman last edited by

                  Never go full “Matterson”

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                  • diedpretty
                    diedpretty last edited by

                    “The NRL will look at the option of banning clubs from tabling offers to players which would see them earn money with a rival club.”

                    Huh? Parra wasn’t allowed to have tabled an offer to Matterson while he was contracted - it was a sly back door deal.

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                    • Hangonaminute
                      Hangonaminute last edited by

                      Are they going to do something about players that do a full preseason with a club, play 10 games then jump ship and a team ends up playing against the same player 2 weeks in a row?

                      How can anyone have “pride in a jersey” when they end up wearing 2 different jerseys in the same season?

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                      • Sart0ri
                        Sart0ri last edited by

                        I thought the most interesting part of the article was that JAC is asking for 800k.

                        “Tell him he’s dreamin’”

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                          happy_tiger last edited by

                          Look this isn’t the way too handle it …players are less likely to take chances with clubs like us …if you make clubs and players managers more accountable they will have a far better outcome

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                          • OzLuke
                            OzLuke @Sart0ri last edited by

                            @Sart0ri said in NRL’s bid to stop more Mattersons:

                            I thought the most interesting part of the article was that JAC is asking for 800k.

                            “Tell him he’s dreamin’”

                            considering it seems we are the only club in for his services…

                            I’d offer 500k with incentives if he plays x amount of time at fb…

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                              izotope last edited by

                              will they enforce the same rules with coaches?

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                                Lauren @izotope last edited by

                                @izotope said in NRL’s bid to stop more Mattersons:

                                will they enforce the same rules with coaches?

                                If I recall correctly Greenberg brought in a anti-poaching rule immediately after Ivan signed with Panthers.

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                                  TCL last edited by

                                  Just add the players current contract value on top of his new contract value into the destination clubs cap for the term of the new contract. Player is receiving 300k currently, new club offers him 500k for 3 years, the new club takes 800k hit to their cap for next 3 years. Don’t know too many clubs that would be willing to do that for any player makes it even harder the better the player is.

                                  Or better still the NRL just refuses to register the players new contract until the term remaining with the current club expires.

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