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Not all rosy for big George
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 5:38 PM
Injured Manly cult hero George Rose could be forced out of the club after running the contract gauntlet and coming undone.
Sea Eagles chief executive Grant Mayer said the club may be unable to offer Rose another deal after the 24-year-old turned down a one-year extension last year in the hope of gaining a more lucrative deal after another season in first-grade.
Rose suffered a compound fracture in his right ankle against Melbourne on Saturday night and is still in hospital following two surgeries to repair his broken fibula and badly torn deltoid ligament.
Teammates visited him in hospital on Tuesday and his manager Allan Gainey is to meet Mayer on Thursday in the hope of organising a deal.
Gainey said Newcastle coach Brian Smith had told him the 110kg prop is on the Knights' radar, but the season-ending leg injury and the lengthy rehabilitation that comes with it won't help Rose's chances of securing the lucrative deal he seeks.
Mayer said Manly are fully committed to re-signing backrower Anthony Watmough and utility Travis Burns, and this could leave Rose without many options.
"George is out of our hands a bit. We made our intentions clear last year and his manager made his intentions clear and wanted to back himself," said Mayer.
"We are not talking to George, his manager is coming to talk to us.
"Our concern is for the welfare of him. We are very keen to make sure he is looked after and at least this year he is not disadvantaged.
"We are very, very conscious about the welfare of the player because the injury we are talking about is not a short term injury, it's a long term injury.
"(He is on) an incentive deal and missing football games does hurt his bottom line.
"If he had his time all over again a two-year deal would have been a great thing to take.
"When you decide to back yourself and take a one-year deal only things like this can happen.
"You can either be a genius or be in a really unfortunate situation like this.
"(But) if you're talking about priorities for us they have certainly been Travis (Burns) and Choc (Watmough)."
Gainey said Rose had options but his season-ending injury had not hurt him too bad financially.
"Smithy (Brian Smith) is releasing front rowers and said (Rose) was on their watch list," said Gainey.
"(Manly's) other offer was not better than he was on before.
"If he played another 15 games it would have only made about $7500 difference to his income. It's still substantial but his contract is mainly made up of guaranteed payments."
Source: AAP
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 5:38 PM
Injured Manly cult hero George Rose could be forced out of the club after running the contract gauntlet and coming undone.
Sea Eagles chief executive Grant Mayer said the club may be unable to offer Rose another deal after the 24-year-old turned down a one-year extension last year in the hope of gaining a more lucrative deal after another season in first-grade.
Rose suffered a compound fracture in his right ankle against Melbourne on Saturday night and is still in hospital following two surgeries to repair his broken fibula and badly torn deltoid ligament.
Teammates visited him in hospital on Tuesday and his manager Allan Gainey is to meet Mayer on Thursday in the hope of organising a deal.
Gainey said Newcastle coach Brian Smith had told him the 110kg prop is on the Knights' radar, but the season-ending leg injury and the lengthy rehabilitation that comes with it won't help Rose's chances of securing the lucrative deal he seeks.
Mayer said Manly are fully committed to re-signing backrower Anthony Watmough and utility Travis Burns, and this could leave Rose without many options.
"George is out of our hands a bit. We made our intentions clear last year and his manager made his intentions clear and wanted to back himself," said Mayer.
"We are not talking to George, his manager is coming to talk to us.
"Our concern is for the welfare of him. We are very keen to make sure he is looked after and at least this year he is not disadvantaged.
"We are very, very conscious about the welfare of the player because the injury we are talking about is not a short term injury, it's a long term injury.
"(He is on) an incentive deal and missing football games does hurt his bottom line.
"If he had his time all over again a two-year deal would have been a great thing to take.
"When you decide to back yourself and take a one-year deal only things like this can happen.
"You can either be a genius or be in a really unfortunate situation like this.
"(But) if you're talking about priorities for us they have certainly been Travis (Burns) and Choc (Watmough)."
Gainey said Rose had options but his season-ending injury had not hurt him too bad financially.
"Smithy (Brian Smith) is releasing front rowers and said (Rose) was on their watch list," said Gainey.
"(Manly's) other offer was not better than he was on before.
"If he played another 15 games it would have only made about $7500 difference to his income. It's still substantial but his contract is mainly made up of guaranteed payments."
Source: AAP
