Gallens payout

[bad boy bubby]

First of all apologies, I did try and look for the thread that had the players taking legal action against the club for what happened in 2011
Anyways, read on....


Star's $700,000 payout: The story Paul Gallen didn't want you to read
Danny Weidler
June 7, 2020 — 12.01am

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There is no upside in trying to defend Paul Gallen when it comes to the peptides era at Cronulla. Fans, smug commentators who think they know it all and ex-players won’t listen to the truth.

In recent weeks, with few knowing, the Sharks were forced to make a payment of about $700,000 to Gallen. Why? So he didn’t sue them for what took place in 2011. My information is Gallen could have got a lot more if he had pursued legal action.

The drugs scandal of 2011 took a huge emotional toll on Paul Gallen.CREDIT:AAP

Gallen and 15 of his former Sharks teammates accepted backdated 12-month doping bans from ASADA in the final weeks of the 2014 season after they agreed to plead guilty to unwittingly taking banned substances. Then Cronulla coach Shane Flanagan was banned for 12 months by the NRL for governance failures, while controversial sports scientist Stephen Dank was banned for life for administering the supplements.

I told Gallen I knew about the payment and he wasn’t happy. He didn’t want me to write about it. I’m not sure what reception I’ll get when we sit next to each other on 100% Footy on Monday night.

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The payment may well be slightly more than $700,000, but Gallen won’t say. The person who leaked the information to me also won’t elaborate.

Does a person, who some want to paint as a key figure in the supplements program, get that kind of payment? I don’t think so. For the record, Gallen played no such role.

In my view, $700,000 is not enough to compensate Gallen for all he has had to endure as a result of the club allowing the program to take place. And that’s why Gallen is getting the payout. Because he did the checks. He asked the right people at the club if what they were doing was above board. He checked the ASADA website. He didn’t invite Dank or Darren Hibbert into the club.

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But it has left an indelible scar. When it was revealed rising Sharks star Bronson Xerri had failed a drug test, Gallen’s name was somehow dragged into it.


It takes a considerable emotional toll on him. Not that he would want that known. And criticism from former players doesn’t help. Ex-international Mark Carroll ripped into Gallen during the week. Carroll is a good honest bloke who played the game hard. He is a clean skin. But he has got it badly wrong to imply that Gallen was a key figure in Cronulla’s peptides scandal. A contact has told me Brydens Lawyers have sent Carroll a warning letter.

Gallen has paid a huge price for that time, but he has been as upfront as anyone. Some of his story was taken out of his book, Heart and Soul, on legal advice, but may be able to be told in the future. I hope one day he tells everyone what the lawyers wouldn’t let him.

Before you start to say I’m backing a drug cheat, understand this: I don’t approve of what happened during the Dank days at Cronulla. I don’t like or condone drug use. But in Gallen’s case, he has been paid out by his club because they put players in a situation that haunts many of them to this day.



https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/st...-didn-t-want-you-to-read-20200606-p5506g.html

 

[Quigs]

The never ending story.

(fharrk The Hartleys of Brookvale must be laughing their heads off)

 

[Thick Skinned Shark]

First of all apologies, I did try and look for the thread that had the players taking legal action against the club for what happened in 2011
Anyways, read on....


Star's $700,000 payout: The story Paul Gallen didn't want you to read
Danny Weidler
June 7, 2020 — 12.01am

• Send via Email

View all comments

There is no upside in trying to defend Paul Gallen when it comes to the peptides era at Cronulla. Fans, smug commentators who think they know it all and ex-players won’t listen to the truth.

In recent weeks, with few knowing, the Sharks were forced to make a payment of about $700,000 to Gallen. Why? So he didn’t sue them for what took place in 2011. My information is Gallen could have got a lot more if he had pursued legal action.

The drugs scandal of 2011 took a huge emotional toll on Paul Gallen.CREDIT:AAP

Gallen and 15 of his former Sharks teammates accepted backdated 12-month doping bans from ASADA in the final weeks of the 2014 season after they agreed to plead guilty to unwittingly taking banned substances. Then Cronulla coach Shane Flanagan was banned for 12 months by the NRL for governance failures, while controversial sports scientist Stephen Dank was banned for life for administering the supplements.

I told Gallen I knew about the payment and he wasn’t happy. He didn’t want me to write about it. I’m not sure what reception I’ll get when we sit next to each other on 100% Footy on Monday night.

Advertisement
The payment may well be slightly more than $700,000, but Gallen won’t say. The person who leaked the information to me also won’t elaborate.

Does a person, who some want to paint as a key figure in the supplements program, get that kind of payment? I don’t think so. For the record, Gallen played no such role.

In my view, $700,000 is not enough to compensate Gallen for all he has had to endure as a result of the club allowing the program to take place. And that’s why Gallen is getting the payout. Because he did the checks. He asked the right people at the club if what they were doing was above board. He checked the ASADA website. He didn’t invite Dank or Darren Hibbert into the club.

RELATED ARTICLE

NRL OFF-FIELD BEHAVIOUR
'He's our main focus': Silence from Xerri sparks fears for mental wellbeing
But it has left an indelible scar. When it was revealed rising Sharks star Bronson Xerri had failed a drug test, Gallen’s name was somehow dragged into it.


It takes a considerable emotional toll on him. Not that he would want that known. And criticism from former players doesn’t help. Ex-international Mark Carroll ripped into Gallen during the week. Carroll is a good honest bloke who played the game hard. He is a clean skin. But he has got it badly wrong to imply that Gallen was a key figure in Cronulla’s peptides scandal. A contact has told me Brydens Lawyers have sent Carroll a warning letter.

Gallen has paid a huge price for that time, but he has been as upfront as anyone. Some of his story was taken out of his book, Heart and Soul, on legal advice, but may be able to be told in the future. I hope one day he tells everyone what the lawyers wouldn’t let him.

Before you start to say I’m backing a drug cheat, understand this: I don’t approve of what happened during the Dank days at Cronulla. I don’t like or condone drug use. But in Gallen’s case, he has been paid out by his club because they put players in a situation that haunts many of them to this day.



https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/st...-didn-t-want-you-to-read-20200606-p5506g.html

Not a good look!
All the culprits would have moved on. We don't know if it was Club instigated breach, but I'd imagine you'd go after individuals not the Club itself
What about his team mates? Wouldn't you think he'd have done a Class action? Has he set a precedent?

 

[Craigshark]

Poor Gal, he’s had it tough. He pretty much ran the club the last few years and did whatever he wanted, signed whatever contract he wanted even though he probably should have retired a year or two earlier. Let him box, let him work for the media. One club loyal player and club legend, even though he could have signed with Manly in 2011 which he always reminds everyone about, but he is obviously as money hungry as they come.

 

[taipan]

Geez ,you wouldn't want to tell Weidler , you won Lotto in confidence, or parachute him in behind enemy lines to assist partisans.

What's another 700K to the club, we are rolling in it.
We have people out of work, struggling because of COVID-19 and Danny Devito has to bring this up.
We get a win last night I'm pumped, then I read this and I'm deflated.

 

[carcharias]

Weidler
You’re a good bloke Gal but I’m gonna write a story that makes you look like a merkin for no other reason than I‘m a gutter raking piece of shit...but you’re a good bloke Gal

 

[Eion]

He does love the cabbage Gal. I’ve no problem with everyone knowing he sued the club, especially for when he runs with the victim card over the whole peptide thing. He ended up being pretty handsomely compensated.

 

[shaggs]

Gal is for Gal. Always has been, always will be.

 

[blue bags]

gal linked to warriors, dragons

 

[sharknows]

Gal is for Gal. Always has been, always will be.

Yeah loyal to the sharks all his career when he could have earned shitloads more elsewhere... get f##ked