Acting Professional - when a player leaves a club

[dogslife]

I'm having flashbacks of Hodges at the Broncos in 2001...

 

[RHCP]

Great comment on that article:

joker says… Today at 2:22 PM
When I was a kid, I asked my grandfather "Pop, whats a rabbitoh? Is it like a rabbit?" He replied "Kind of, but they changed it because it was always the scoreboard at the end of the game" He had to write it down for me. Rabbits-0

:lol: Brilliant.

Pride of the league.

 

[Twizzle]

The Alan Bond reference was a personal favourite, most League fans under 25 or so would be scratching there heads wanting to now what youtube video Bondy got famous for.

I thought it rather ironic considering Richardson has 2 Alan Bonds bankrolling his club.

 

[Ziggy the God]

 

[Eels Dude]

I agree that Richo crossed the line, but I have no problem with Crowe's tweet.

I don't think the club owner should reveal a player's salary to the whole world, it's a breach of privacy.

 

[BunniesMan]

I don't think the club owner should reveal a player's salary to the whole world, it's a breach of privacy.

So it's ok for people to mislead but it's not ok to have some FOI. If he's going to leave us for bigger money he has every right to, but to turn around and say it's not about the money is ridiculous and Crowe was making sure everyone knew.

And privacy? f**k privacy, he won't be caring about privacy when he's driving his new sports car.

 

[kmav23]

So it's ok for people to mislead but it's not ok to have some FOI. If he's going to leave us for bigger money he has every right to, but to turn around and say it's not about the money is ridiculous and Crowe was making sure everyone knew.

And privacy? f**k privacy, he won't be caring about privacy when he's driving his new sports car.

stay classy San Diego....


lets see souths loyalty when its time to resign wesser ?

 

[BunniesMan]

stay classy San Diego....


lets see souths loyalty when its time to resign wesser ?

The fact that we resigned him for this year showed more than enough loyalty. And I've heard we'll be offering him a job off field after this year. That's plenty of loyalty.

 

[Mr Angry]

Are souths a company now?

 

[Eels Dude]

So it's ok for people to mislead but it's not ok to have some FOI. If he's going to leave us for bigger money he has every right to, but to turn around and say it's not about the money is ridiculous and Crowe was making sure everyone knew.

And privacy? f**k privacy, he won't be caring about privacy when he's driving his new sports car.

It's poor form no matter what way you look at it. You don't publicly declare ANY player's salary to the media. A player saying it's not about the money is just a standard cliche... they all do it. Doesn't mean their current club has the right to reveal their new salary.

 

[Eels Dude]

The fact that we resigned him for this year showed more than enough loyalty. And I've heard we'll be offering him a job off field after this year. That's plenty of loyalty.

What about Beau Champion? You sure were loyal to him eh :roll:

 

[BunniesMan]

What about Beau Champion? You sure were loyal to him eh :roll:

We didn't (and we couldn't, even if we wanted to) force him to go. The Storm were offering the 1 guaranteed year plus 2 option years in his favour, he was given permission to negotiate by us and he found himself a superior deal. If he never found that deal he'd still be with us now.

If you're boss told you "mate, you're contracted to us for X $ and Y years, but we're looking to go in another direction, you're free to look for another place of employment while still being contracted to us and if you can find something better than you currently have, you're free to leave" you'd be entirely happy with that.

We treated him perfectly well.

 

[Spanner in the works]

Crowe's got form:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national...e/2006/06/06/1149359738242.html?page=fullpage

I've heard other rumours like that article and Sandow's revealed salary about Crowe.

 

[perverse]

We didn't (and we couldn't, even if we wanted to) force him to go. The Storm were offering the 1 guaranteed year plus 2 option years in his favour, he was given permission to negotiate by us and he found himself a superior deal. If he never found that deal he'd still be with us now.

If you're boss told you "mate, you're contracted to us for X $ and Y years, but we're looking to go in another direction, you're free to look for another place of employment while still being contracted to us and if you can find something better than you currently have, you're free to leave" you'd be entirely happy with that.

We treated him perfectly well.

you treated him well, but not with any loyalty. showing loyalty would have had him as part of your direction.

 

[cleary89]

Great comment on that article:

joker says… Today at 2:22 PM
When I was a kid, I asked my grandfather "Pop, whats a rabbitoh? Is it like a rabbit?" He replied "Kind of, but they changed it because it was always the scoreboard at the end of the game" He had to write it down for me. Rabbits-0

Gotta credit muzby for that one. I also got a lol@50uffs as a location on there.

 

[Eels Dude]

We didn't (and we couldn't, even if we wanted to) force him to go. The Storm were offering the 1 guaranteed year plus 2 option years in his favour, he was given permission to negotiate by us and he found himself a superior deal. If he never found that deal he'd still be with us now.

If you're boss told you "mate, you're contracted to us for X $ and Y years, but we're looking to go in another direction, you're free to look for another place of employment while still being contracted to us and if you can find something better than you currently have, you're free to leave" you'd be entirely happy with that.

We treated him perfectly well.

So how is that any different with Sandow then?

 

[BunniesMan]

So how is that any different with Sandow then?

Well we did show him loyalty. In the first place we picked him up as a Titans reject, then put years and years into him. We suffered through a whole bunch of mediocre performances from him and helped him develop into the player he may be turning into now. How many critics told us over and over again to sack him and get a "good" halfback?

We haven't been in the finals since he debuted. now I'm obviously not putting all the blame for that on him, but there was a whole lot of losing there and we stuck with him through all that.

We did a lot for him that hurt us in the short term for the sake of his (and ours) long term growth. But as soon as he showed form and got a big offer, he left.

We showed more loyalty and patience to him than any other team would have. If we dropped him at the worst of it, he'd probably be working in a Maccas right about now, not signing a 2 million dollar contract.

 

[S.S.T.I.D]

The club embarrassed themselves with those two comments.

But we've put a lot of time into Chris over the last 3 years, when a lot of people were calling him rubbish and a total liability, they persevered, obviously hoping that they would see a return. We haven't yet, but things are looking promising. Now, he's gone. The only place he was going when we stepped in was the highway back to Cherbourg.

With the time and effort put into perspective, and the fact that he did agree to stick around as recently as Monday night, I can understand Richo and Hando's disappointment. The emotional investment in Chris was huge and these two are obviously passionate. Their passion and disappointment got the better of them this morning. If they had their time again I don't believe that they would of made the comments that they did. It reflected badly on the entire club.

 

[thorson1987]

The fact that we resigned him for this year showed more than enough loyalty. And I've heard we'll be offering him a job off field after this year. That's plenty of loyalty.

Just like you heard Bennett had signed with LOL@50UFFS.

 

[kurt faulk]

The club embarrassed themselves with those two comments.

But we've put a lot of time into Chris over the last 3 years, when a lot of people were calling him rubbish and a total liability, they persevered, obviously hoping that they would see a return. We haven't yet, but things are looking promising. Now, he's gone. The only place he was going when we stepped in was the highway back to Cherbourg.

With the time and effort put into perspective, and the fact that he did agree to stick around as recently as Monday night, I can understand Richo and Hando's disappointment. The emotional investment in Chris was huge and these two are obviously passionate. Their passion and disappointment got the better of them this morning. If they had their time again I don't believe that they would of made the comments that they did. It reflected badly on the entire club.

all clubs go through exactly the same thing with young players looking for their payday. their handling of the situation sort of vindicates the lol@souffs mentality in the general league population.

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