GongPanther
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Schulte, Tanginoa and Cornish confirmed.
http://www.parraeels.com.au/news/2015/10/21/eels_sign_trio.html?camefrom=EMCL_814117_34046502
3 good signings especially Cornish.
Eels building nicely.
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Schulte, Tanginoa and Cornish confirmed.
http://www.parraeels.com.au/news/2015/10/21/eels_sign_trio.html?camefrom=EMCL_814117_34046502
Who will be out fb if Gordon goes down? Will it be Norman or moss?
With Hoppa - Sounds to me like BA doesn't want what comes with Hoppa.The family and Media.....So they have gone lets get rid of him.
The plan would surely be to try and be as least disruptive as possible. Probably Moss or French. Maybe move Gutherson to fullback with another centre coming into the side?
My info is Gutherson is still on holidays and so cant sign his contract until he returns... not related to Hoppa saga at all.
As long as he's not travelling with Matt Lodge we'll be ok then.
my guess is that we have about $400-500K wiggle room in the cap ... we probably signed gutherson to $250-300K ... so we are just going, here's the left over $200K'ish .... and maybe we believe that if shit goes south in court then the NRL will make us contribute that same $200K to his departure to play elsewhere .... so best case, we end up with about $200K cap room if court goes our way
Umm what the actual f**k ?
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I am still struggling to find the logic that suggests we would contribute greater than $0 for Hoppa to play elsewhere?
I base this on the fact the NRL has no right to slug a team cap space for a contract that isn't registered by them. They refused to register the Hoppa deal in the first place, so one might reasonably assume they won't be registering any further deal (since we won't submit one). Hoppa hasn't taken the NRL to court, just the Eels. The court therefore cannot force the NRL to register a contract. So we won't have a cap hit for Hoppa of greater than $0.
I would not be surprised if we are paying Hoppa to play elsewhere, but very surprised if that hits our cap.
I am still struggling to find the logic that suggests we would contribute greater than $0 for Hoppa to play elsewhere?
I base this on the fact the NRL has no right to slug a team cap space for a contract that isn't registered by them. They refused to register the Hoppa deal in the first place, so one might reasonably assume they won't be registering any further deal (since we won't submit one). Hoppa hasn't taken the NRL to court, just the Eels. The court therefore cannot force the NRL to register a contract. So we won't have a cap hit for Hoppa of greater than $0.
I would not be surprised if we are paying Hoppa to play elsewhere, but very surprised if that hits our cap.
The Eels had not attempted to register the contract with the NRL after the club's officials realised the amount of money that was offered to Hopoate would tip the club well over the salary cap limit
He's had a dream ever since playing WCW Nitro on his N64
????? Do you have a source for that?
Who said that NRL refused to register his deal?
The NRL can pretty much do what they want with salary cap decisions.....teams agree to be bound by their salary cap determinations when they agree to play in the competition (subject to normal avenues of appear). They can slug a team for cap space for 3rd party payments that are not part of a registered NRL contract. They can slug a team for financial inducements paid outside a registered NRL contract. This doesn't meant that they will slug us, but to simply assume that they won't if the court finds against us would be rather 'courageous'.
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/parramatta-eels-have-until-friday-to-sort-out-will-hopoate-contract-dilemma-20150808-giujiq.html
I agree with what you say re NRL dping what they like with cap, which is why I can't see them slugging us.
Why would they?
It is NOT a registered contract, so has never been part of our top 25 payments. If negotiations fail betweem parties, no matter how advanced, the NRL don't administer cap hits.
Have they done it in the past?
I know the Fifita deal is not exactly the same, but similar enough in that the amount the Dogs verbally agreed was above the Sharks amount. Were they slugged?