From The Sydney Morning Herald...
Melbourne’s pursuit of Zac Lomax could prove more costly than expected if the NRL deems the club’s promise to cover the exiled winger’s legal bills should be included in the Storm’s salary cap.
Parramatta began legal proceedings to prevent Lomax from joining the Storm, given his release from a four-year contract was contingent on the Eels providing written consent. The Blues winger was granted a release to join rebel rugby competition R360, but has been left in limbo after its inaugural season was put back until 2028.
Lomax’s hopes of making his Melbourne debut against former club Parramatta in the opening round have been thwarted after his court hearing was scheduled to end a day after the AAMI Park clash.
According to court documents made available last week, the Eels claim the Storm indemnified Lomax’s court expenses.
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He will fight for the vacant Port Kembla Heavyweight title and make a motza in pay-per-veiw...because everyone hates him now and watching him take some head-shots would be cathartic....villans get paid.
There is no way the weasels at the NRL will do anything to the Scums cap.
Still, very proud of Beach, Jim and the team. We haven't had a backbone still Fitzgerald.
Same, Kurupt. Whatever the outcome, Jim, Beach, Ryles and the club stood united and stood their ground when they were meant to roll over for the Storm and PLV, discreetly. Moses SC has also been brilliant.
Wouldn't shock me if storm come to the table at the 11th hour with Howarth and the transfer fee. No way in hell they win this in court
I know i have said it before but Storm fans say we are being unreasonable and see no outcome in which we win this case. Despite all the released, that is still the belief. I believe in bias and backing your team but come on.
But i do not think they let Howarth go, they are slim on backs as it is without Coates, why let a Centre go too?
I can see them offering a middle like Alec MacDonald or someone like that.
If you look at it from a player for player deal, would you rather Lomax or Howarth if you are the Storm but ? I just don't see any way legally the storm can force the eels to hand them Lomax 🤣 either way don't really care what storm end up doing but we aren't budging
LB, Eli, good discussion gents. We've acted in good-faith. By the book. With clean hands. Lomax appears not to have on face value. But regardless, equity is not unlikely to view an NRL-wide restraint until 31 Oct 28' as overly-punitive and read it down.
We'd still win, technically, legally. And morally in the eyes of the rugby league community. And I'm proud, regardless of the outcome.
I'm also wondering in the case of a read down, whether there is an avenue to appeal in higher courts? One for the lawyers, and a wait-and-see.
Hopefully, we get a player swap, though that's a tricky one.
LB, Eli, good discussion gents. We've acted in good-faith. By the book. With clean hands. Lomax appears not to have. But regardless of that, equity is not unlikely to view a 3-year restraint until 31 Oct 28' as overly-punitive and read it down.
We'd still win, technically, legally. And morally in the eyes of the rugby league community. And I'm proud, regardless of the outcome.
I'm also wondering in the case of a read down, whether there is an avenue to appeal a read down in higher courts? One for the lawyers, and a wait-and-see.
Hopefully, we get a player swap, though that's a tricky one. The Storm don't seem to have an appetite for it nor a fair win-win. And forget about HQ acting fairly. We know where they sit. They want us to lose and Lomax playing as soon as possible. They've made Gallop look like a saint with his view on SBW who walked out to a sanctioned competition. Also, there don't seem to be many bona-fide swap deals, historically, with a lot of moving parts to align. Good odds if you have money to lose.
The best thing for the Eels is if we say nothing our position is clear we only have to come back to the table if Melbourne come with something we see as advantageous for us that really is the bottom line.
Best thing about this there the ones doing all the talking trying to drum up sympathy for the situation.Dragging the nrl into this when they have zero business being there.We have a signed and sealed document.Melbourne the court of public opinion can say what they like as above as long as we have that good luck trying to get themselves out from under that one.For me all the rest are sermantics all we have to prove is that Lomax was mentally competent at the date of signing and all the rest is all the rest after that.
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