The Game Judiciary & Match Review charges - 2022 season

[yobbo84]

How many low-income earning Eels fans just forked out $1000+ for GF tickets? New jerseys at $180 odd each?

Yet here's this bloke on $600k making a stand over $4k?

What a wanker.

 

[Danish]

You f**k up at work. The boss gives you 2 options:

1) you get 3 weekends off, at full pay
2) you get your annual pay docked 1% and get to not miss any work

im sure everyone here would be selecting option 1.

frankly the RLPA should be arguing in their next agreement to remove any ability to fine players as punishment at all. Or at least have them paid by the clubs and not the players’ salaries

 

[mxlegend99]

You f**k up at work. The boss gives you 2 options:

1) you get 3 weekends off, at full pay
2) you get your annual pay docked 1% and get to not miss any work

im sure everyone here would be selecting option 1.

frankly the RLPA should be arguing in their next agreement to remove any ability to fine players as punishment at all. Or at least have them paid by the clubs and not the players’ salaries

This guy has form for not wanting to put in hard work and for wanting every cent he can get his hands on. He would feel he won the lotto getting 3 weeks off.

What really happened in NRL's nastiest split

'Who's up for a $5K pay cut ... pass the hat around'

wwos.nine.com.au

The Herald said that Matterson was upset about the club's medical treatment, including during his recovery from a concussion and when he felt pressured into playing a game two days after being in hospital on a drip.

He was also reportedly furious when Maguire questioned his toughness during training and took exception to sessions that ran over time; "one of which ran 11 minutes past the scheduled finish time.".

He did not attend training sessions during last season's finals, ordered by Maguire after the Tigers again failed to make the top eight, nor did he go to a post-season bowls day with teammates.

According to Fox Sports, Matterson also spent "only an hour or so" at the club's Mad Monday celebrations - during which he copped relentless ribbing over his looming departure. It was reported by then that Matterson wanted out of the club to get more money than his $450,000 Wests Tigers salary.

Fancy being teammates with someone who doesn't have your back and would rather missing 10%+ of the season than pay 0.66% of his contract to help his teammates get a win.

Someone who complains about a bit of extra work (11 minutes ffs lol) while trying to milk the club for every cent they can and will bail on the contract the second he thinks he can get more elsewhere.

I can understand players trying to maximise their earning capacity. But this guys list of complaints from Tigers ontop of the way he is letting his teammates down for 2023 is just absolutely insane to me. It's a shame being such a good player means a club will let you get away with that shit.

99% of players wouldn't even think twice before choosing the fine. If it was a matter of principles he should have fought the charge. But i suppose he then runs the risk of not getting 3 weeks off

 

[Bazal]

Matto's a genuinely weird unit and I personally would have paid the fine (especially cos the charge was a joke originally) but this is a storm in a teacup.

 

[Danish]

This guy has form for not wanting to put in hard work and for wanting every cent he can get his hands on. He would feel he won the lotto getting 3 weeks off.

What really happened in NRL's nastiest split

'Who's up for a $5K pay cut ... pass the hat around'

wwos.nine.com.au

Fancy being teammates with someone who doesn't have your back and would rather missing 10%+ of the season than pay 0.66% of his contract to help his teammates get a win.

Someone who complains about a bit of extra work (11 minutes ffs lol) while trying to milk the club for every cent they can and will bail on the contract the second he thinks he can get more elsewhere.

I can understand players trying to maximise their earning capacity. But this guys list of complaints from Tigers ontop of the way he is letting his teammates down for 2023 is just absolutely insane to me. It's a shame being such a good player means a club will let you get away with that shit.

99% of players wouldn't even think twice before choosing the fine. If it was a matter of principles he should have fought the charge. But i suppose he then runs the risk of not getting 3 weeks off

he’d make an excellent head of the RLPA. Exactly the kind of man you want negotiating an EBA.

 

[The Lounge Lizard]

Who's Ryan Matterson?

 

[mxlegend99]

he’d make an excellent head of the RLPA. Exactly the kind of man you want negotiating an EBA.

Maybe while he's playing still. Though after that i couldn't imagine a worse person for the job.

He wouldn't fight for players. The second the meeting looked like running over he would accept whatever offer is on the table to avoid extra work.

Unless he's getting more money he won't lift a finger. He wasn't even willing to go to the judiciary to fight the charges he doesn't believe he deserved. He happily accepted the 3 game holiday instead.

 

[Danish]

Maybe while he's playing still. Though after that i couldn't imagine a worse person for the job.

He wouldn't fight for players. The second the meeting looked like running over he would accept whatever offer is on the table to avoid extra work.

Unless he's getting more money he won't lift a finger. He wasn't even willing to go to the judiciary to fight the charges he doesn't believe he deserved. He happily accepted the 3 game holiday instead.

just make his pay for negotiating the deal incentive based and you are good to go

 

[Captain Apollo]

Aaron Woods gave Matto a bit of a bollicking on Triple M this morning (he's filling in for Mark Geyer who's recovering from elbow surgery). Said he is known to be a real tightwad. When he goes to practice, rather than eat the food prepared by the eels staff for the players to eat (and be charged $10 a day for it) he brings his own food from home.

Home – Triple M

www.triplem.com.au

 

[Bazal]

Aaron Woods gave Matto a bit of a bollicking on Triple M this morning (he's filling in for Mark Geyer who's recovering from elbow surgery). Said he is known to be a real tightwad. When he goes to practice, rather than eat the food prepared by the eels staff for the players to eat (and be charged $10 a day for it) he brings his own food from home.

Home – Triple M

www.triplem.com.au

Like I said, the guy is a weird unit.

We have a lad like that at cricket. Then he goes around with his empty containers from his home made lunch and fills them with leftovers from all the plates.

He is incredibly autistic. The rig on him but...actually that sounds like Matto

 

[nick87]

You f**k up at work. The boss gives you 2 options:

1) you get 3 weekends off, at full pay
2) you get your annual pay docked 1% and get to not miss any work

im sure everyone here would be selecting option 1.

frankly the RLPA should be arguing in their next agreement to remove any ability to fine players as punishment at all. Or at least have them paid by the clubs and not the players’ salaries

Bums on their couch really except professional players to make decisions they'd never make in their own life lol
Im sure if it was for a finals game or key late season game or a rep game, he'd pay the fine and move on.

 

[Captain Apollo]

What players do tend to forget is that if they get suspended, a club has the power and authority to fine them 1/25 of their salary for each match they are suspended for. The thing is clubs very rarely ever do that. This might be worth the Eels at least reminding him of.

 

[mxlegend99]

The 'kick' Matterson feels was worth being punished but wasn't... And makes him worry for where the game is going.

 

[Chimp]

He might be scheduled for off season surgery and going to miss the first few games anyway - that’s the only way this decision would really make sense.

 

[Munky]

He might be scheduled for off season surgery and going to miss the first few games anyway - that’s the only way this decision would really make sense.

Quadruple bypass?

Perhaps a full tranplant?

 

[The Lounge Lizard]

Quadruple bypass?

Perhaps a full tranplant?

Actually a frontal lobotomy.

 

[Captain Apollo]

 

[Fangs]

Worst off-season incident so far. Matterson has brought the game into disrepute.

Bloke should be playing soccer.

 

[Captain Apollo]

Not blaming Souths for exploiting this loophole, but it just shows how dumb the NRL's judiciary code is and how it is applied, generally speaking -

NRL star uses World Cup to shorten suspension despite not being in a squad

NRL star uses World Cup to shorten suspension despite not being in a squad

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[yobbo84]

Not blaming Souths for exploiting this loophole, but it just shows how dumb the NRL's judiciary code is and how it is applied, generally speaking -

NRL star uses World Cup to shorten suspension despite not being in a squad

NRL star uses World Cup to shorten suspension despite not being in a squad

www.foxsports.com.au

They made their bed with JWH, Collins, Taumalolo etc so they had no choice with Milne.

They should all have been allowed to play the whole world cup, and all serve their suspensions in NRL 2023.