William Hopoate - most overrated player ever

[Gronk]

Channel 7? Do they cover sport?

Yes they have Josh. You know the guy that got punted from 2MMM for making shit up about Matai n match fixing.

 

[Twizzle]

Well all I can say if WTF ?

How can we be paying a player and under our salary cap mind you, while he is playing at and under contract to another club ?

Have the NRL officially lost it ? or have they just never had it ?

 

[Happy MEel]

Well all I can say if WTF ?

How can we be paying a player and under our salary cap mind you, while he is playing at and under contract to another club ?

Have the NRL officially lost it ? or have they just never had it ?

I think it's unlikely it will be added to our cap but if a club releases a player mid contract and are paying some freight for another club to take him off their hands, then that amount comes off their cap whilst the player is under contract for another club.

 

[Gronk]

On the cap or outside the cap, this would not be news to Max. He would have had an NRL ruling on this yonks ago.

 

[strider]

All we've had is a media report months ago that it won't be on the cap ... and now a media report that it will be on the cap

Probably best to wait until someone confirms - and talks about powerhouses n stuff

 

[Noise]

Well all I can say if WTF ?

How can we be paying a player and under our salary cap mind you, while he is playing at and under contract to another club ?

Have the NRL officially lost it ? or have they just never had it ?

What do you mean? We have been paying players at other clubs for years. And heaps of clubs also pay players when they are under contract at other clubs. I don't know why this is surprising to you?

 

[Gronk]

What do you mean? We have been paying players at other clubs for years. And heaps of clubs also pay players when they are under contract at other clubs. I don't know why this is surprising to you?

Agree however those payments are supliments to NRL registered contracts.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

The good news is that in the next year or two we'll finally get Morts off the books.

 

[Noise]

Agree however those payments are supliments to NRL registered contracts.

And isn't that what Hoppa wanted? Parra to supplement his Bulldogs contract

 

[Gronk]

And isn't that what Hoppa wanted? Parra to supplement his Bulldogs contract

Yes that was always the case. The complexity here is if it is part of our cap.

Unusual for the NRL to insist that payments to a former player who has purportedly entered into a contract, form part of the cap. Whereby the "contract" does not actually exist other than a counterpart signed by the player, never executed by the club and never presented to the NRL for registration.

Also because the case was not heard, a court has not found that there was a contract or not. Max probably just crunched the numbers and worked out that it might cost a few hundred in legal fees to hear the matter and decided to write a cheque to make it go away. Is that an admission that a contract exists ? No.

 

[Twizzle]

What do you mean? We have been paying players at other clubs for years. And heaps of clubs also pay players when they are under contract at other clubs. I don't know why this is surprising to you?

Because it generally happens with players who were released,

In this case Hoppa's contract ran out. Its not the same as us paying Morts to play for the chooks for example.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

The good news is that in the next year or two we'll finally get Morts off the books.

Not if he takes up the $500kpa payer option he has with us for 2018, 2019 and 2020. He has until October next year to make his decision.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

I'd curse him but I know that the moment I look in his eyes I'll be lost.

 

[phantom eel]

 

[Gronk]

Nothing in the Sunday news about Hoppa.

 

[Dibs]

Hoppa doesn't do Sunday news for religious reasons

 

[Gary Gutful]

Zing!

 

[Joshuatheeel]

 

[hineyrulz]

Awesome, well done Sharpie and crew.

 

[Gronk]

Awesome, well done Sharpie and crew.

Wasn't it Seward ?

Former chief executive Scott Seward signed Hopoate to a huge deal that the Eels couldn’t afford or else they would be over the salary cap next season.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl...s/news-story/de0ee05208385d99531c97831531c019