Jarryd Hayne to the NFL!

[Parra]

I don't believe the 'life time contract' bullshit either.
The one thing he hasn't achieved in league is a premiership so it makes sense that if he returns it will be to the club that gives him the best chance to do so - just like SBW.
On reflection, we are losing a player and captain who doesn't believe in his team mates, club and coach. There is no way he would leave now if he thought we were a chance of winning a premiership next year. Hayne believes in himself but he doesn't believe in anyone else and you can't have a leader that doesn't believe in those he is leading.
I reckon the reason that this decision was so hard is because he knew he was doing the wrong thing not because of some fear of failure.
As for the gigantic photo of Hayne, I would take it down ASAP. I wonder also if it affects the membership brochures etc for next year? I'm sure there are a lot of other headaches Hayne has caused the club by not having the decency to give some notice.

What a load of crap. Any player with that attitude would still be playing park footy with his mates as he couldn't "abandon" them. That is not the way things work. Blokes like Hayne play juniors, rep sides eventually playing for the district and then they get graded. Always on and up and none of this is disloyal. It is ambitious. It is constantly improving and testing yourself. Hayne is just aiming higher than most. Good luck to him.

 

[T.S Quint]

Hayne spent two years training for the NFL in secret. He watched more NFL than NRL. And to top it all off, he's now doing interviews criticising rugby league - he recently stated that he'd learn more in a week's raining in the NFL than he would training for two months in the NRL.

He has no grace or class. As if it wasn't enough to up and leave the way he did, he then twists the knife he stabbed us with by criticising and belittling the sport that made him.

f**k that merkin.

I think you read that quote wrong.
He was specifically talking about sprint training. League is more focused on endurance rather than bursts of speed. Hayne was just talking about how different the training will be.

 

[bartman]

Make it as waterboy, perhaps.

 

[T.S Quint]

I think Hayne has all the attributes needed to make it in the NFL.
But he has left it too late in his career.

I don't see him getting much further than getting onto a practice squad. If he does that it will be a decent effort. But the question will be if Hayne will be happy with that and keep trying.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Regarding Hayne possibly failing and returning to the NRL, does anyone know how long you have to have been available for drug-testing before you can play? In cycling, which is also WADA administered, you can't just go off the radar and turn up to a race and compete.

 

[T.S Quint]

The NFL are introducing new laws in regards to PED testing.
It may not be as prevalent as it has been.

 

[T.S Quint]

Having said that, the punishments for testing positive are incredibly lax.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Yeah but are these new laws enough to comply with WADA? I somehow doubt it but I have no idea.

I don't think Hayne would take PEDs, even if others were, as he doesn't strike me as that sort of guy. Who knows though. But the point is he may still have to sit out a few months to comply with the NRL/WADAs drug-testing requirements.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I care whether or not he makes it (I hope he does). I just don't know if he will.

I wish there was some way to find out but.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

What exactly does the question mean? Will he appear on an NFL roster and play some game time? Quite possibly. Will he be more than a journeyman pro? Unlikely.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

I watched a show about some doctor the other day who has a machine that can take him anywhere in space and time, the fact of which is conveniently ignored when it would harm the plot. Maybe you could ask him, but I didn't happen to catch the name.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I believe it is called Doctor Whom.

 

[T.S Quint]

Was it that documentary I saw a while ago - Back to the Future?

 

[Tony Bongo]

What a load of crap. Any player with that attitude would still be playing park footy with his mates as he couldn't "abandon" them. That is not the way things work. Blokes like Hayne play juniors, rep sides eventually playing for the district and then they get graded. Always on and up and none of this is disloyal. It is ambitious. It is constantly improving and testing yourself. Hayne is just aiming higher than most. Good luck to him.

Moving up through the grades in the same organisation is completely different to pissing off overseas without notice and ditching the club who had one fifth of their salary cap invested in you. This is not the way things work in the real world. I'm disappointed that our club has been so gracious in letting him go. As others have said we should have done what the Dogs did with SBW. That's exactly what someone who's not willing to honour a legally binding contract deserves.

 

[T.S Quint]

I'd say our club doesn't think he will make it and doesn't want him signing with another team on his return.
Why burn that bridge if you don't need to?

Hayne is too good to do that. I still want him playing for my team.
Even more than that, I don't want him playing against us.

 

[whall15]

I don't believe the 'life time contract' bullshit either.
The one thing he hasn't achieved in league is a premiership so it makes sense that if he returns it will be to the club that gives him the best chance to do so - just like SBW.
On reflection, we are losing a player and captain who doesn't believe in his team mates, club and coach. There is no way he would leave now if he thought we were a chance of winning a premiership next year. Hayne believes in himself but he doesn't believe in anyone else and you can't have a leader that doesn't believe in those he is leading.
I reckon the reason that this decision was so hard is because he knew he was doing the wrong thing not because of some fear of failure.
As for the gigantic photo of Hayne, I would take it down ASAP. I wonder also if it affects the membership brochures etc for next year? I'm sure there are a lot of other headaches Hayne has caused the club by not having the decency to give some notice.

If there was no agreement that he wouldn't return why would the club release him?

The club would have all the leverage in the world in that scenario.

 

[T.S Quint]

There may be no contract in writing, but a verbal agreement.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Nobody would ever sign a lifetime contract for anything,its a verbal agreement

 

[T.S Quint]

So it comes down to whether Hayne is a man of his word.


We're f*cked.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

I believe it is called Doctor Whom.

Thanks. I never know which one to use.

Was it that documentary I saw a while ago - Back to the Future?

:lol: