SBW will not play again this year

[no name]

No it doesn't.

He is not saying what he did is right. He is saying by what he knows (or thinks he knows) SBW had to do it.

He mentioned "for legal reasons". Maybe there was a deadline for a medical? There is probably a dozen reasons. we know only one thing is a fact, he is on a plane flying to Europe.

Are you serious?
He was clearly defending him. If you can't see that you are blind.
Everyone knows he is a Mundine/Nasser tack on.

 

[sass]

So you can guarantee that, 100% ?

France is not some capitalist paradise, you know?

bahaha you know I'm not saying that. it's my opinion that a league in australia operating within a salary cap can't offer payments that are as attractive as those that a french club operating without one can. I definitely think that's true, and I feel more certain of it every time someone like mason tells the herald he was offered a multimillion dollar deal.

 

[wombat68]

christ i haven't seen MG that fired up since Wally!!!:x
Unless the make-up and wardrobe dept went on strike before the roast......WTF happened to Matty Johns.....if he isn't on the gear I'm looking at someone else that looked like he crawled out of a gutter before the show.

 

[The Teach]

Gallop has just said on 2GB that SBW now has a life time ban from the NRL!

 

[eastsrule]

Yeah I heard that too...

Never allowed to play in the NRL again...

 

[sass]

Something is lost. If you write it into every players contract that they're able to take up a 2 year deal overseas whenever they like, instead of going at 26 or 27, they'll be leaving at 23 or 24. As soon as overseas clubs realise they're worth something. Allowing "get out" clauses like this only make it worse. So instead of losing our best players at 27, we're losing them at 24... Please explain logically how that will work instead of just assuming it will.

Also... If players can leave when they will, how can clubs work within the salary cap for their roster for the following year. Say a club has tabled up their recruitment for 2009, then all of a sudden player (A) says he's going to go overseas. All of a sudden the club has 400k to spend... but no one to spend it one. Because most clubs try to work out arrangements earlier in the season. You are contradicting your own point.

the concept as I see it is that you are 'losing' your best player at 24 for one season or two. obviously football players don't have decades of professional footy in them, but do you really think a player leaving for a season is SO OVERWHELMINGLY AWFUL or so inconceivable?

I think it's better than losing sbw for god knows how long in his early twenties. I also think that losing gaz for an indefinite period at 27 is pretty bad. he's playing at a representative standard still.

the second thing you said is something that can be solved in the deadlines you place on exercising your options - letting the club know far enough in advance that they can make their own plans for the future (which is one of the points of my whole - wildly unpopular - idea)

 

[Timmah]

Gallop has just been heard on 2GB issuing a full life ban for SBW - stating he will not be playing NRL again for the duration of his playing days.

 

[Shorty]

the concept as I see it is that you are 'losing' your best player at 24 for one season or two. obviously football players don't have decades of professional footy in them, but do you really think a player leaving for a season is SO OVERWHELMINGLY AWFUL or so inconceivable?

But how do you know they'll want to return?
And I don't see that being any better than the situation at hand...or if it would make it any better.

Players leaving for England/RU is bad is a blight on the game,but how is having players in their prime leave for a period going to improve that?
I mean,we'll be getting players heading towards the backend of their career....I don't see how that would be positive.

 

[Johns Magic]

So the Bulldogs can't force him to see out his contract?

 

[bartman]

We don't need another SBW thread do we? :lol:

(Sorry, just joking ;-))

 

[Frederick]

Somehow I don't think SBW will be bothered by this

 

[Timmah]

Somehow I don't think SBW will be bothered by this

My thoughts exactly. I fear Gallop isn't dealing with this correctly.

 

[Shorty]

Yeah this isn't doing sh*t.
Still not satisfied Gallop.

 

[eastsrule]

My thoughts exactly. I fear Gallop isn't dealing with this correctly.

I agree.

The only fact we know is that SBW is on a plane. If he is going for a medical with a French RU club, all we can say NOW is that it is speculation.

As a lawyer, you'd think that he'd want to wait and get more details.

Of course, this is assuming that he knows as much as us.

 

[t-ba]

I don't get the purpose of this.

another reactive NRL c**k up...I think a few more of these and the war is starting up again.

 

[bartman]

Waht do you want Gallop to do? That's about the maximum he can do within his power, banning the greedy merkin from the sport altogether...

Gallop isn't a law court, and he's not the karma police either. What can he do in the space of 24 hours other than this?

 

[t-ba]

Waht do you want Gallop to do? That's about the maximum he can do within his power, banning the greedy merkin from the sport altogether...

Gallop isn't a law court, and he's not the karma police either. What can he do in the space of 24 hours other than this?

What exactly does a life ban achieve? He would have been better off sitting on his hands for a couple of days.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Im glad the Bulldogs are considering legal action for this, but Greenburg has mentioned that they need support from the NRL.

The fact that the signed a 5 year deal, agreed to it, now suddenly he cant make up his mind, he accuses Willie Mason for lack of loyalty, says he's staying with the Bulldogs now suddenly fleds to France and signs with Rugby.

The worst thing he did was change his manager.

p1ss of Sonny Bill, dont ever come back.

But I do hope the Bulldogs and the NRL take legal action against this.

 

[harmichael]

Voss brought up a good point. Could Sonny have waited 7 weeks?

why would toulon let him play the final 7 weeks in the NRL and risk injury? They would have said to him if you want $3 million for the next 2 years get yourself over here now..

 

[Special K]

I think we should get sonny back in the game.

Yes he f**ked up, so did Jamie Lyon. We let him back. You can't tell me you wouldn't want to see sonny vs the dogs down the line. They would sell out telstra!!