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It doesn't alter the fact that BOTH parties to the contract, the player AND the club, have to want to terminate the contract. As for your example, RCG could have easily stayed at Penrith and collected his money, regardless what level he played he'd still get paid the same amount and use up the same amount of Salary Cap. He left because he wants his SOO place back and that wasn't going to happen not playing in the NRL. Hardly comparable to our situation.Push them into reserves or the bench. They'll want to go. The only reason why they won't is because there are no buyers for the reasons I've stated (maybe we'll have to chip in, it is what it is). Ideally we don't have players on long contracts so we're able to just run out their contract and not re-sign them or we only have to deal with them on our books for one year even tho we don't want to use them (as we've decided to go with our reserve/development player). There isn't an alternative anyways. RCG at Panthers was on a long term deal there and he was able to find a club and he was a shadow of himself. RCG has come out and said he was pushed out by Ivan and he didn't want to leave.
It could happen in year 1 of a 3 year contract, it doesn't have to be year 3. So you might be faced with paying for 2 years of a non productive player. I'm not a fan of copping part of the freight for a player to go elsewhere, albeit we had no choice in order to get down to the Salary Cap in 2018 and 2019. That wasn't to free up space for someone else, it was necessary just to get Cap compliant.
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