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Not that surprising that Paul Kent doesn't understand something.
‘I don’t understand’: Kenty questions ‘rubbish’ Warriors coup in NRL contract law concern
‘I don’t understand’: Questions over ‘rubbish’ Warriors coup in NRL contract law concernwww.foxsports.com.au
Food for thought?
Panthers released JFH. Why would the NRL have to agree to anything? Pretty simple really, compassionate grounds, the bloke has been over here since he was 16 and had a sick family member.
‘Clean break’: How bombshell NRL switch got done in 72 hours and why Panthers allowed it
‘Clean break’: How bombshell NRL switch got done in 72 hours and why Panthers allowed it
I think that this has been on the cards for a while. It is hard to come to grips with how easy it was for JFH to get what he wanted from the Panthers. Because everything happened so quickly, I suspect that this has been going on for longer than what we would know. A player like JFH is not easy to replace but yet the Panthers let him go for no transfer fee, no like for like swap, just - "JFH we have given your request to go back to NZ and play with the Warriors some serious thought and because you did us proud in helping us win 3 premierships, we are happy to let you go for next year".
Simple and easy. The Warriors will be even a stronger force next year.
Has all this been agreed to by the NRL?
Possibly they have a journo permanently assigned to the club? And 2 journos if Hunt and Lomax are running hot in the same week.
I know that the Panthers agreed to release JFH like the Warriors agreed to release AFB based on compassionate grounds. But I question how this was done so speedily. When AFB requested his release on compassionate grounds from the Warriors they agreed to his request which enabled his manager to seek interests from Sydney clubs who could accommodate him within their salary cap and that was a fair arrangement. The other matter with JFH was explained by TheRev and Slippery Morris -
bit easier when JFH wanted to go back to NZ, there's only 1 team there
You don't get a chance to say that often.
You could be right but in this case it was still a fair point.
I hear what you are saying Justa, but even if a draft and trade period was implemented in the NRL, due to the cut throat nature of the game, and all previous attempts being abused, it would be a draft and trade period in name only.
But whose been screwed in the situation justa? Seems to me that both clubs and the player are ok with this happening, otherwise it wouldn't have happened.
Then we can assume that he doesn't have a ghost writer.
Warriors let go of Addin & Walsh in similar circumstances. Kent didn't want the integrity unit to investigate the Bronx or Sharks did he? Lol.... He just dislikes the Warriors. He also said the Warriors approached JFH. Bs, James talked to his club then approached the Wahs. Obviously they had the $ as Addin is leaving the club. Kent should never talk about integrity ever after what he did. Wank stain shouldn't have a job.
Yes I agree, I suppose its the whole transparency of not just this exchange but overall. Look at what happened with AFB it took months, Lomax months and a lot of heartache. And this gets done in 2 days. Yes you could say that the more elite clubs are better at it than we are. There is no transparency of what goes on, do you really believe that players stay at clubs for less money and their managers allow that. Ok we hear that players are there for a short time and they have to make the most of it, so we'll take 200 or 300 K$ less to win a premiership, please spare me this loyalty crap. All the managers do is shop their player around to extract more money from their current club with the threat of leaving if they dont cough up. In Luai's case it was too huge and Penrith had to let him go. Lets see what happens now with Turuva, Penrith wont match our offer but I reckon he stays there, there will be some bullshit excuse. Also when AFB was supposedly coming to us the warriors wanted compensation and other players, but guess what with the Sharks they asked for nothing, how does that work. There are a lot of things happening in player deals and you dont see three quarters of this stuff happening in the AFL world.
I don't see why both points of view couldn't be accurate on this one.
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