Greg Inglis announces retirement from rugby league

[Mr Spock!]

I'm sure the dogs would love to "retire" Foran who is more busted than Inglis , pay him 300k per year working for them and have the NRL top it up and not have his salary count in the cap

I don't see how any one can argue that the NRL is not yet again bending the rules for select clubs

LOL they just signed him on a near million dollar deal.

Once again would foran be happy to say "nah I don't want the money."

 

[Mr Spock!]

No. He finished his contract and retired. Completely different circumstances. His and Smiths testamonials though.....

GI finished his contract too.

He self terminated it.

 

[Pommy]

GI finished his contract too.

He self terminated it.

It’s as if people have never read an employment contract before.

 

[Mr Spock!]

‘Everyone should butt out’: Gus Gould blasts ‘conspiracy theories’ Inglis was pushed

Greg Inglis has retired, but whether his contract money will remain on the salary cap is yet to be determined.Source: Getty Images
Panthers boss Phil Gould has hit out at ‘conspiracy theories’ Greg Inglis was tapped on the shoulder at South Sydney, also blasting those who have an issue with a potential salary cap exemption.
While the NRL is yet to confirm if Inglis’ reported $1.5 million contract will be wiped from South Sydney’s salary cap, commentary around the topic has varied from supportive to sceptical.


“I don’t care, I really don’t, and what does it matter? I know it’s a talking point for the media and they’re working out now how much South Sydney have got to spend and fans of other clubs will; be saying ‘oh, that’s unfair, they’re going to buy one of our good players’,” Gould said on his Wide World of Sports podcast, Six Tackles with Gus.

“Well, that’s South Sydney’s good fortune. They’ve paid this fellow good money for a number of years and he’s now unavailable.

“Why do we want Greg Inglis to play on if his heart and his body isn’t in it?

“Greg, by his own admission, is done; ‘I’ve had enough’. Therefore, he can’t contribute that $1.5 million worth they were going to spend on him.

“It’s a wise decision. I don’t know if South Sydney have given him a nudge or a push or what have you. That’s what people want to believe.

“I don’t particularly believe that. I think Greg has made a very intelligent decision.

“Everyone else should just butt out. Conspiracy theories, ‘they tried to free him up’, or, ‘they tried to do this’, or offered him incentive to go — I don’t care about any of it, I really don’t.”

The NRL has confirmed it has not made a decision on Inglis’ retirement package, but Gould believes Inglis has earned whatever the club is willing to offer him in retirement and the Rabbitohs should be entitled to salary cap relief.

However, the criticism centres not on whether Inglis deserves to earn a decent wage — rather whether his contract be exempt from the salary cap if he was deemed medically capable of playing on.

 

[Mr Spock!]

It’s as if people have never read an employment contract before.

And for the life of me I can't see how money not paid on a player goes on a cap.

 

[Pommy]

And for the life of me I can't see how money not paid on a player goes on a cap.

I can see the argument if a deal is clearly suspect, this one isn’t suspect at all.
What people are proposing here is a system with no concern for player welfare and could end up being responsible for a death, it’s sick.

 

[Albert Rosenfeld]

Will be funny when Souffs use Inglis' cap money to poach Latrell.

That will never happen. Latrell loves the Roosters. They are family to him.

 

[Vic Mackey]

That will never happen. Latrell loves the Roosters. They are family to him.

They thought that about RTS, til he got offered a shit load more money

 

[mave]

Did Souths create a job position out of thin air for Inglis ? Yes

Did Inglis retire the other day because said job was made available to him ?

It looks dodgy. Simple as that.

 

[Surely]

I don’t know how the tigers have come in to you claiming he won’t lose a cent.

He's not getting paid as an nrl player ffs.

As serial rabbits hater Vic said he'd have no issue with him getting paid to coach the tigers.

If you think players don't have jobs lined up for them when they retire then you are incredibly naive.

try to keep up

 

[Pommy]

try to keep up

Keep up with what? The maths is that he’s down over 1 million in 18 months. You are claiming he won’t lose a cent which just seems to be false.

 

[peter file]

Why wouldn't Souths give him a job considering the glowing character reference he has from the NRL CEO?

 

[Surely]

Keep up with what? The maths is that he’s down over 1 million in 18 months. You are claiming he won’t lose a cent which just seems to be false.

If you get given 300k for five years for doing a job worth about 60k and are free to take up other roles in the game then I fail to see how you are losing.

You just want to shorten the time frame to suit your argument.

 

[Pommy]

If you get given 300k for five years for doing a job worth about 60k and are free to take up other roles in the game then I fail to see how you are losing.

You just want to shorten the time frame to suit your argument.

What are you basing this job being worth 60k on?
And you’re pretending that GI wasn’t going to be making money when he left the sport anyway.
It’s hardly me who is making things fit the argument.

 

[Surely]

What are you basing this job being worth 60k on?
And you’re pretending that GI wasn’t going to be making money when he left the sport anyway.
It’s hardly me who is making things fit the argument.

He's still going to, just going to be getting an extra 300k pa off South's

 

[Tiger5150]

LOL they just signed him on a near million dollar deal.

Once again would foran be happy to say "nah I don't want the money."

This is pretty much the whole point. You are sceptical that Foran would just forego $1M "for the good of the team" but seem to have no problem believing Inglis would.

The rest of us have a hard time believing either of them would and that leaves the grubby opportunity for cap rorting.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

so how long before he reaches mark tookey size?

 

[adamkungl]

I'm sure the dogs would love to "retire" Foran who is more busted than Inglis , pay him 300k per year working for them and have the NRL top it up and not have his salary count in the cap

I don't see how any one can argue that the NRL is not yet again bending the rules for select clubs

Why don't they do it then?
Is it because Foran doesn't want to retire from Rugby League but Inglis does? Bit of a sticking point that.

The problem with all these grand conspiracy theories is they involve a lot stars aligning, a lot of shoddy handshake deals that could disappear on a whim, and a lot of people to keep their mouth shut in a game that leaks more than the ruined husk of the Titanic.

 

[adamkungl]

This is pretty much the whole point. You are sceptical that Foran would just forego $1M "for the good of the team" but seem to have no problem believing Inglis would.

The rest of us have a hard time believing either of them would and that leaves the grubby opportunity for cap rorting.

Inglis wants to retire, and has.
Foran does not.

Am I correct in my understanding that Inglis has not been officially "medically retired", ie. he's not injured enough to prevent him taking the field? He has simply walked because the drive to keep putting his body through the grinder of professional Rugby League is no longer there.

 

[firechild]

Where he signed on minimum wage In 2010 and then the cap auditors invented the concept of “notional value” for Greg Inglis for the 2011 off season when Souths signed him (but not when he was going to Broncos)

A concept that was never used again until Sam Burgess came back to League

Not true. It was retrospectively applied to Brent Kite's contract after the NRL had already signed off on his contract earlier in the season. It pushed Manly over the cap (marginally) resulting in the club being fined.

The reality is, the NRL pick and choose when to apply certain "rules" meaning the clubs don't really know where they stand until the NRL make a decision. We can debate the merits of specific decisions all we like but Greenburg has already said he won't be consistent in his decisions.