In CHN's case I agree with you. I just don't know how they'd sack him unless, as one of the posters on here said, in their contract bringing a girl back to their room is a sackable offence.Here’s the problem as I see it, everyone is screaming “sack them” which is understandable in the circumstances. But you can’t just cancel a players contract without just cause and that’s the problem, what’s the just cause? What have they actually done that breaches the terms of their contract? So severely that it justifies termination? Bringing females back to their rooms contravenes the players code of conduct, but that’s not remotely serious enough to justify contract termination. Plenty of other players have done the same or worse, many times worse, and not had their contracts terminated. If we terminate their contracts, the way I see it, they would have pretty solid grounds to claim that they were unfairly treated based on the precedents set and demand reinstatement and/or compensation.
The reporting says that the players must provide a response to the show cause notice by Tuesday to the NRL, which to me indicates that the NRL will be the ones issuing the penalties, that we will be asked to enforce. I’ll watch with interest how the NRL spins it to justify their penalties.
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They’ve definitely put the sport into disrepute and the NRL will back us legally. The problem is if we sack them a scum club full of criminals and wife bashers like Manly will sign them and no doubt they’ll kill itHere’s the problem as I see it, everyone is screaming “sack them” which is understandable in the circumstances. But you can’t just cancel a players contract without just cause and that’s the problem, what’s the just cause? What have they actually done that breaches the terms of their contract? So severely that it justifies termination? Bringing females back to their rooms contravenes the players code of conduct, but that’s not remotely serious enough to justify contract termination. Plenty of other players have done the same or worse, many times worse, and not had their contracts terminated. If we terminate their contracts, the way I see it, they would have pretty solid grounds to claim that they were unfairly treated based on the precedents set and demand reinstatement and/or compensation.
The reporting says that the players must provide a response to the show cause notice by Tuesday to the NRL, which to me indicates that the NRL will be the ones issuing the penalties, that we will be asked to enforce. I’ll watch with interest how the NRL spins it to justify their penalties.
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As far as I know and as has been reported there is no “bringing the NRL into disrepute” clause in NRL contracts. As Folau showed, that’s a tough clause to legally enforce anyway, it’s too general, non specific.They’ve definitely put the sport into disrepute and the NRL will back us legally. The problem is if we sack them a scum club full of criminals and wife bashers like Manly will sign them and no doubt they’ll kill it
It should be enough for a code of conduct breach that so many organisations rely on these days.As far as I know and as has been reported there is no “bringing the NRL into disrepute” clause in NRL contracts. As Folau showed, that’s a tough clause to legally enforce anyway, it’s too general, non specific.
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But the precedent has been set many times that a breach of the CoC doesn’t lead to sacking. Especially a totally legal breach.It should be enough for a code of conduct breach that so many organisations rely on these days.
Unless they can find something else there is no difference in the CoC breaches, they are same.Okunbur definitely but Corey he could challenge it. Hopefully we know by Tuesday
The answer by the NRL to your question should be as simple as this -I believe this question deserves a thread of its own, with the immediate playing future of one of our best in the air.
After all the publicity from the past week, it is now clear that CHN and Okunbor have committed very different offences. Although the two have been lumped together, has CHN really done an offence warranting a suspension?
While I don’t entirely agree with his actions and believe he should face club sanctions, I don’t believe sacking him is the right option. He makes our side stronger, and as we can see through our performance last night, he’s needed. Sacking him will just allow another club to pick him up, and be realistic, who are the dogs going to pick up to replace him?
It’s not so much that the dogs need him that I want him to stay, however, that truthfully he deserves to stay with the club. CHN was never at the school event, while she was of consensual age. It’s not so much even a moral issue as while CHN has a son with his ex-partner, I believe he was not in a relationship at the time of the offence. The only mistake CHN made was bringing the girl back to the team hotel, hence, a hefty fine and temporary suspension would suffice for an adequate punishment.
Would be interested to hear your thoughts.
Unfortunately not all parents are teaching their teens or young adults how to behaveit shouldn't be the clubs responsibility to teach adults how to behave - it use to be a family n parental responsibility