Zac Lomax

[85 Baby]

We got $700k benefit from no longer having him against our salary cap. Perhaps we should similarly just remove other players from our salary cap

 

[Captain Apollo]

I am all for the NRL to get involved but Lonax is a winger.. are they going to do this for every player now

Surely that tweet/post is taking the piss.

 

[King-Gutho94]

It was a sickening watch.

Concerningly, there was still a smugness, like there is more to come from their end that won't be good for Parra.

Paul Kent would have asked tougher questions.

He said he regretted later on he didnt go harder at Chimes the last time earlier in the year when they had him on the 1st podcast about the lomax shit.

Probably why Chimes chose to speak now - Warren Livingstone isn't going to ask the hard questions

 

[85 Baby]

And the f**ken use of “there are players who had done worse that are still playing” as an attack on us is ridiculous. That says more about the league allowing those other players to continue to play then us holding a player to contract

 

[King-Gutho94]

And the f**ken use of “there are players who had done worse that are still playing” as an attack on us is ridiculous. That says more about the league allowing those other players to continue to play then us holding a player to contract

Yeah thats a pissweak argument

Ezra Mam should have been rubbed out for 12 months minimum from the game.

I reckon he would have if he played for the Wests Tigers or a battling club like us.

 

[emjaycee]

We aren't stopping lomax from playing NRL.
We are stopping him from causing us to be further disadvantaged by HIS decision to not play NRL.

 

[Captain Apollo]

The whole argument about Lomax being mounted neglects THE FACT that he was leaving the NRL anyway to play Union for R360.

Why is rugby league, as a code, obliged to take him back because it fell over when just about everybody, INCLUDING PETER V'LANDYS HIMSELF, warned that very thing could happen?

I mean tell me where, if you leave a prior job for a new one, the new employer folds up shop before you start, you are entitled to ignore any contractual obligations you entered into with the old employer to go and work directly for one of its rivals whilst the "industry regulator" says its okay?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I think people such as PVL and Brent Read have completely overestimated how much ‘the fans’ want to see Lomax back in the game.

Most fans couldn’t give a shit. All I’m hearing is that that don’t want him back and he’s welcome to run off to the sport he was originally ditching League for in the first place.

Zac Lomax didn’t care about Rugby League. Why should Rugby League care about him.

I can see how the NRL is theoretically better off with the best players in the game. I’m less likely to watch non-Parra games during Origin, for example, when other teams’ stars aren’t playing. But when a rival team loses a star player to a rival code or whatever, it makes me happy because then we don’t have to play against that merkin any more. Even if I logically know it means the value of every player just went up a bit, increasing our chances of losing one of our own to a rival.

It’s only when a Parra player f**ks off to the NFL, or foreign rugby, or some imaginary comp that doesn’t end up getting off the ground, that I feel the pain of the best players leaving the NRL.

 

[85 Baby]

The whole argument about Lomax being mounted neglects THE FACT that he was leaving the NRL anyway to play Union for R360.

Why is rugby league, as a code, obliged to take him back because it fell over when just about everybody, INCLUDING PETER V'LANDYS HIMSELF, warned that very thing could happen?

I mean tell me where, if you leave a prior job for a new one, the new employer folds up shop before you start, you are entitled to ignore any contractual obligations you entered into with the old employer to go and work directly for one of its rivals whilst the "industry regulator" says its okay?

Me listening to Read, Parker, et al and Gordon Tallis sounds like the smart one:

 

[T-Boon]

I would be keen to see Lomax playing for any number of NRL teams.
At this point I don't want to see him playing for the Roosters, Storm or Gould's team - because those clubs are sly and I/we don't like that. I'd take promising juniors from any other club, bar the above-mentioned axis of evil, as a trade.
Probably I've probably said this very same thing in at least 5 posts already in the last week. However, I wanted to say it again. Thus, I did.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Me listening to Read, Parker, et al and Gordon Tallis sounds like the smart one:

Gordie is a bit of a simple merkin

But i have always found over the years he always stands up for the battler in most arguments.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Jamie Lyon was on radio today

He expressed regret how he walked out on Parra.

He cant change the past but admitted in hindsight he wished he did things differently.

And stayed at least to the end of the year.

He said he was young, naive and at the time he never planned to play professional footy again when he made the decision to leave 1 week into the year

And i always say he at least paid his dues and didnt come back until his Parra contract when he finished.

Whats Lomax actually paid back

 

[Twizzle]

Source for the "proof" ?

 

[AnonymousLurker]

The Australian coach reckons PVL is going to get involved.

Lol at Kevvie

Its all Parramattas fault our demands were too high.

Shouldn’t kevvie be upset with him , he pulled out of the Roos tour. Don’t know if he was legit injured or not but I remember at the time speculation was there was to be medical done in December in r360

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Source for the "proof" ?

The eye test

 

[JokerEel]

Shouldn’t kevvie be upset with him , he pulled out of the Roos tour. Don’t know if he was legit injured or not but I remember at the time speculation was there was to be medical done in December in r360

Kevie doesn't strike me as a very smart former player..

 

[Stagger eel]

Jamie Lyon was on radio today

He expressed regret how he walked out on Parra.

He cant change the past but admitted in hindsight he wished he did things differently.

And stayed at least to the end of the year.

He said he was young, naive and at the time he never planned to play professional footy again when he made the decision to leave 1 week into the year

And i always say he at least paid his dues and didnt come back until his Parra contract when he finished.

Whats Lomax actually paid back

I can tell you, he was very very close to coming back to the club after his St Helens stint..Manly thought they were going to get him cheap before he told them that he was looking at going back to parra.

Manly then through the bank at him.

 

[Twizzle]

The eye test

Source it, or lose it; the rules apply to everyone.

 

[Gary Gutful]

And the f**ken use of “there are players who had done worse that are still playing” as an attack on us is ridiculous. That says more about the league allowing those other players to continue to play then us holding a player to contract

“He hasn’t killed anybody” is a pretty low bar to set when judging someone.

 

[85 Baby]

Whats Lomax actually paid back

Despite doing it in stupid way, I don’t blame him for trying to come back to NRL. I don’t blame Scum for trying either even if they were trying to get him for a steal. I don’t blame NRL for trying to protect their image. I don’t blame Matterson for trying to cash in on being used as a pawn. But the club is absolutely not at fault for any of it.

These commentators are divorcing the club from the people. Whether we actually were happy with Lomax leaving or not, the clause was added to protect club stakeholders (and thus the comfort in their own jobs) having him reappear immediately with a competitor with no tangible return. And as @Soren Lorenson said it’s laughably ironic now one minute blaming us stopping him from playing with a competitor, then the next lamenting he may go to a competitor code