GI - out of retirement to Warrington

[Chimp]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/s...s/news-story/d6b5b525dbce8828a31e25976bece572

If this turns out to be true - makes a mockery of the whole Souths Cap exemptions. Will show it for exactly what everyone knew it was - RORT.

 

[The unknown]

Jeez, The local rehab centre in Redfern could enter their own team soon

 

[Vic Mackey]

Bahahaha what an absolute rort

Thank God Todd ‘Souths can do whatever they want’ Greenburgh is gone

 

[Valheru]

Surely the NRL now has to assign His wage last year to next year's cap?

Oh wait, this is souffs.

 

[Greenfields]

Ha. That has to be the end of medical retirements. Proven farce.

 

[Dingo_dan]

Watching this blow up on several social media sites and i still can believe people still mistakenly think GI retirement was a medical retirement. GI's retirement was never a medical retirement.

 

[Vic Mackey]

He would still be under contract for Souths this year on $900k

if he has gone there for say $500k then Souths should have $400k added to their salary cap for this year

 

[simmo05]

Watching this blow up on several social media sites and i still can believe people still mistakenly think GI retirement was a medical retirement. GI's retirement was never a medical retirement.

Hence they shouldn't have received cap relief

 

[Valheru]

Watching this blow up on several social media sites and i still can believe people still mistakenly think GI retirement was a medical retirement. GI's retirement was never a medical retirement.

The NRL treated it in the same way as a medical retirement because souffs

https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/05/16/inglis-salary-cap-ruling-gives-rabbitohs-$1-million-war-chest/

 

[Dingo_dan]

He would still be under contract for Souths this year on $900k

if he has gone there for say $500k then Souths should have $400k added to their salary cap for this year

James Maloney was still under contract to the panthers for 2020, he sort a release from that contract to take up a deal with the Catalans dragons. Should panthers still have to pay anything under the cap for maloney this year?

 

[Dingo_dan]

The NRL treated it in the same way as a medical retirement because souffs

https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/05/16/inglis-salary-cap-ruling-gives-rabbitohs-$1-million-war-chest/

Except they didn't

Souths were still copped $900k on the cap for 2019 and an additional $100k on the cap this year for GIs early release.

 

[axl rose]

Bahahaha what an absolute rort

Thank God Todd ‘Souths can do whatever they want’ Greenburgh is gone

This will not happen with S.Burgess though.

 

[Vic Mackey]

James Maloney was still under contract to the panthers for 2020, he sort a release from that contract to take up a deal with the Catalans dragons. Should panthers still have to pay anything under the cap for maloney this year?

Well considering it’s Penrith in all likelihood they are paying a large chunk of it

 

[Valheru]

Except they didn't

Souths were still copped $900k on the cap for 2019 and an additional $100k on the cap this year for GIs early release.

You mean the amount they paid him before he retired?

Of course that counted towards their cap.

 

[Perth Red]

He’ll enjoy the pies over there.

 

[Vic Mackey]

Except they didn't

Souths were still copped $900k on the cap for 2019 and an additional $100k on the cap this year for GIs early release.

it says in the article they got $300k off his wage for 2019, which allowed them to sign James Roberts

 

[Dingo_dan]

Hence they shouldn't have received cap relief

Its not uncommon for players to forego the final years of there contracts to retire early. Uts happened dozens of times with players usually being parachuted into roles within their clubs.

Souths is one of the few occasions where a club has actually still been hit with loss of cap space (900k last year, 100k this year).

 

[Rabbit toes]

 

[Pommy]

Surely the NRL now has to assign His wage last year to next year's cap?

Oh wait, this is souffs.

It is ridiculous but it’s hard to blame Souths if an employee takes up employment elsewhere. This was all signed off by medical doctors at the NRL.

 

[Dingo_dan]

You mean the amount they paid him before he retired?

Of course that counted towards their cap.

This thread explains it best