Opinion My solution to stamp out player contract incidents.

[Mr Invisible]

If a player manager (e.g Moses) engages with a currently contracted client (e.g Klemmer) and talks to another club (e.g Knights): The player manager and any employee associated with their business, is stood down as a player manager for a term of 2 years.
The club is fined $100,000, warned accordingly, and has $100,000 removed from their salary cap (per offence).

If a club engages a player manager to assist in breaking the contract of a contracted player: The player manager and any employee associated with the business, is stood down for a period of 5 years, and the club fined $500,000.

If a club attempts to sign (or enter into any conversation direct or otherwise) with a player outside their final contract year: The club is fined $300,000, and has $300,00 removed from their cap the following year. If the club has more than 3 incidents in 1 year, the club is fined $1 million and loses $1 million from their cap the first year, $500k the second, and $250k the third year.

If a player manager attempts the above 3 times in a year, they are terminated for life as a player manager and all associated employees/business banned from dealing with players for 8 years.

If a player encourages a manager/club to assist in breaching their contract: The club the player is currently contracted to has the option to either demand the player see out their existing contract, or terminate the players contract and have them sit out an exclusion period equal to the terms of the players contract.

That will make them take notice.

 

[_G-Dog_]

Good luck with that.. dont hold your breathe for NRL to do anything meaningful..

 

[Smirrors]

Isn't word on the street that board gave Klemmer permission to talk?

 

[Shire Dog]

If a player manager (e.g Moses) engages with a currently contracted client (e.g Klemmer) and talks to another club (e.g Knights): The player manager and any employee associated with their business, is stood down as a player manager for a term of 2 years.
The club is fined $100,000, warned accordingly, and has $100,000 removed from their salary cap (per offence).

If a club engages a player manager to assist in breaking the contract of a contracted player: The player manager and any employee associated with the business, is stood down for a period of 5 years, and the club fined $500,000.

If a club attempts to sign (or enter into any conversation direct or otherwise) with a player outside their final contract year: The club is fined $300,000, and has $300,00 removed from their cap the following year. If the club has more than 3 incidents in 1 year, the club is fined $1 million and loses $1 million from their cap the first year, $500k the second, and $250k the third year.

If a player manager attempts the above 3 times in a year, they are terminated for life as a player manager and all associated employees/business banned from dealing with players for 8 years.

If a player encourages a manager/club to assist in breaching their contract: The club the player is currently contracted to has the option to either demand the player see out their existing contract, or terminate the players contract and have them sit out an exclusion period equal to the terms of the players contract.

That will make them take notice.

I take it that your not a big fan of Moses and rightly so.
The NRL should be taking action like you suggested but won’t
It’s a second rate organisation with staff interested in their coffee club and free study trips abroad
All the staff are on excellent coin for doing nothing
Half of them are buddy buddy with those shonky managers

 

[Mr Invisible]

Isn't word on the street that board gave Klemmer permission to talk?

It should never come to that though. The board would only do that because a player manager has spoken to another team, and another team has put forth an approx offer.

This is about stopping things before they even get that far.

I take it that your not a big fan of Moses and rightly so.
The NRL should be taking action like you suggested but won’t
It’s a second rate organisation with staff interested in their coffee club and free study trips abroad
All the staff are on excellent coin for doing nothing
Half of them are buddy buddy with those shonky managers

Peter Beattie is probably closely monitoring the situation and asking why Peter Brock is being released by the Canterbury-Belmore Kookaburras.

The problem with the NRL is there's nobody employed that lives in the real world.

Paid for doing nothing and impossible to get sacked.

 

[Mr Invisible]

Brian Canavan: ex Roosters for 10+ years. Then moved on to NRLHQ as Head of Football working closely with Greenberg. Then this year moved on to Knights (NRL owned still) as Head of Football.

Tell me we aren't getting fucked over by connections.

 

[Spoonman84]

Its pretty easy to fix if you want to.......All the NRL has to do is make a rule that if you leave a club mid contract you cannot get a increase in your salary until the contract at the old club would have finished.

It lets players change club who have legitimate reasons to move and stops managers trying to profit when they get a new client.

 

[TOTTO]

Might happen if the position was reverse us talking to a Newcastle player not off contract.

 

[Trafford10]

Brian Canavan: ex Roosters for 10+ years. Then moved on to NRLHQ as Head of Football working closely with Greenberg. Then this year moved on to Knights (NRL owned still) as Head of Football.

Tell me we aren't getting fucked over by connections.

Are Newcastle still owned by the NRL?

 

[Spoonman84]

Are Newcastle still owned by the NRL?

They were bought by the mega rich Wests Newcastle Leagues Club a few months ago so they are loaded now.

 

[Mr Invisible]

It lets players change club who have legitimate reasons to move and stops managers trying to profit when they get a new client.

In that case the club should release them.

If the club do not, the player appeals to the NRL and Players Association, and they both decide together (ad consider reasons why the current club should keep them, etc).

 

[Dannyboi88]

That’s a good idea but if they do that how do the roosters and broncos cheat then ?

 

[Riggs80]

I would just use the law , sue the player , the club and player manager ... bankrupt a few player managers and watch them all play nice afterwards

And you must be kidding on the NRL sanctioning anyone ... that is the comedy of the year. It's been 3 years in which they have solid evidence of the rorts the player managers did at Parra and not one thing done to them

 

[SweetFA]

Its pretty easy to fix if you want to.......All the NRL has to do is make a rule that if you leave a club mid contract you cannot get a increase in your salary until the contract at the old club would have finished.

It lets players change club who have legitimate reasons to move and stops managers trying to profit when they get a new client.

That will open a new can of worms; putting conditions on player contracts would be a restraint of trade easily argued in a court of law- Terry Hill et al
The NRL lets this slide as the salary cap
Constrains a club to conform to a fixed ceiling amount it can pay its players collectively $9.6 for your top 30 players
.......unless you’re the Roosters, Broncos as Storm that is who have an unfair advantage with their TPAs effectively

 

[silverelvis69]

Good luck with that.. dont hold your breathe for NRL to do anything meaningful..

That’s why the nrl is a joke

No balls , salary caps chging rules

The game was once beautiful

It has become boring!

 

[Wahesh]

I agree. There needs to be something done. The NRL is a spineless organisation whom I hate.

 

[Hot Dog]

Great solution but it wont work. I mentioned in another thread that SBW made breaking player contracts possible. The NRL did stand up and support the Bulldogs when SBW walked out and all he did was switch codes and make even more money. They lost their next big superstar. They will never risk doing that again, even if they waned to. Can't blame them really. Remember the NRL have no loyalty to any club but they do to the fans and the fans want the best players playing NRL not Rugby Union.

No player is bigger than the Club, however the same old adage is not applicable to the game. Slater proved it this year by getting off and playing in the grand final. The NRL bends over to keep star players happy. Burgess also proved it by being allowed to play amid the sex scandal. Whether he was guilty or innocent is not my point, the point was the NRL waited until Souths were finished for the season until they came out and addressed it. There are many other examples also. The NRL is not a proactive organisation, they are reactive. That is why the game is dying a slow death.

 

[Vek]

Or just get a board with a spine.....the board opens the door by allowing players to negotiate.

If they dont allow it, it cant happen simple. No matter what they tell you. They act like its clubs stealing players but the reality is they open the door.

 

[Hansta]

No offense but no one in their right mind would implement such ridiculous punishments

 

[Dognacious]

Isn't word on the street that board gave Klemmer permission to talk?

It is understood...