News George Williams quits Raiders

 

[Zoe Palmer]

Is Williams being paid out? What’s the issue. He should just shut up and bugger off, his bluff has been called

 

[Marshall_magic]

I feel like I’m missing something here

williams: can I have a release at the end of the season

raiders: nope

Williams: ok give me a day off to work shit out

raiders: piss off, leave now you jackass


How can anyone think the Raiders handled this well. Surely the correct move is to tell him he can go, but put a condition on his release that he can’t play for another NRL, club until his contract with the Raiders expires? It’s almost as though they’re so stuck on not letting GW win, that they’ve managed to become the losers of the situation. Probably will cost Sticky his job.

 

[baselinepanther]

I feel like I’m missing something here

williams: can I have a release at the end of the season

raiders: nope

Williams: ok give me a day off to work shit out

raiders: piss off, leave now you jackass


How can anyone think the Raiders handled this well. Surely the correct move is to tell him he can go, but put a condition on his release that he can’t play for another NRL, club until his contract with the Raiders expires? It’s almost as though they’re so stuck on not letting GW win, that they’ve managed to become the losers of the situation. Probably will cost Sticky his job.

so turn a blind eye to him secretly being shopped around while claiming mental health issues & treat him with respect despite him showing the club none ?

yeah


nah

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Can't believe Perth Red hasn't blamed V'landys yet.

 

[baselinepanther]

the club said straight up at the start when george said he wanted out , they'd work with him because of the mental health aspect of the situation.

once they found out what the real reason was , they played hardball & no one can blame the Raiders for that.

 

[Saxon]

the environment ?

you mean the cold bleak winters ??
lol
yeah lets look at that eh

I actually meant Sticky and the Furners.
Can't see a Wigan boy being troubled by a Canberra winter.

 

[Saxon]

the reports his manager was shopping him around to other nrl clubs has some substance i hear

In which case, if proven, Raiders should sue his manager AND the NRL should ban him.

 

[Marshall_magic]

so turn a blind eye to him secretly being shopped around while claiming mental health issues & treat him with respect despite him showing the club none ?

yeah


nah

Yeah, so get rid of him, why deny him a release to England out of spite?

 

[Ron's_Mate]

so turn a blind eye to him secretly being shopped around

Who says he was being shopped around? Oh yeah, Ricky's media mates.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Wanting to go to a club near a beach is saying pretty much any team but these Green jerks.

 

[Mr Spock!]

I thought players only had mental issues when they were caught doing something wrong.

 

[Mr Spock!]

Canberra does seem like a depressing place though.

 

[Hull Kingston Bronco]

Who says he was being shopped around? Oh yeah, Ricky's media mates.

Exactly, it’s made up super-convenient nonsense... that the deluded “my clubs right even when it’s wrong” crowd are chomping right up

Any release would’ve had a non-NRL club clause so it’s transparently nonsense

 

[Johns Magic]

In the corporate world, there is a thing called “flight risk” that you have to consider when interviewing someone for a role.

Canberra rolled the dice and lost. Cop it on the chin. It’s going to happen occasionally hiring expats.

An English couple having their first kid, in Covid-times when they can’t have the family support they want/need. Yeah I can believe George is under extreme pressure at home from the missus about this.

I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that pressure would be the same regardless of if they were at Canberra or at a “beach” club.

 

[Zoe Palmer]

I feel like I’m missing something here

williams: can I have a release at the end of the season

raiders: nope

Williams: ok give me a day off to work shit out

raiders: piss off, leave now you jackass


How can anyone think the Raiders handled this well. Surely the correct move is to tell him he can go, but put a condition on his release that he can’t play for another NRL, club until his contract with the Raiders expires? It’s almost as though they’re so stuck on not letting GW win, that they’ve managed to become the losers of the situation. Probably will cost Sticky his job.

You portrayal is not accurate for a start

 

[Zoe Palmer]

In the corporate world, there is a thing called “flight risk” that you have to consider when interviewing someone for a role.

Canberra rolled the dice and lost. Cop it on the chin. It’s going to happen occasionally hiring expats.

An English couple having their first kid, in Covid-times when they can’t have the family support they want/need. Yeah I can believe George is under extreme pressure at home from the missus about this.

I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that pressure would be the same regardless of if they were at Canberra or at a “beach” club.

I agree with all of that, so he’s now got his release and can go home.
What’s the issue?

 

[Johns Magic]

I agree with all of that, so he’s now got his release and can go home.
What’s the issue?

That the Raiders have done it like dicks and made Williams pay for it.

What benefit do they get cutting him now rather than the end of the season? Nothing. In fact they are hurting themselves.

This could have been done a lot better.

 

[baselinepanther]

Yeah, so get rid of him, why deny him a release to England out of spite?

id be pretty spiteful if i was lied to
& he is released

he can f off anytime he wants

 

[baselinepanther]

Who says he was being shopped around? Oh yeah, Ricky's media mates.

george hasn't denied it has he Einstein

 

[baselinepanther]

That the Raiders have done it like dicks and made Williams pay for it.

What benefit do they get cutting him now rather than the end of the season? Nothing. In fact they are hurting themselves.

This could have been done a lot better.

williams should be made pay for it if his intentions weren't honorable from the start. Theres no way you keep a destabilising figure lke that in your playing group with everyone knowing what he was up to