NRL are only acting as mediators. The contract still holds. As long as we dont fold and the contract is deemed legal we still hold the cards. Allowing a player to effectively break 3 contracts in 2 years is a bad look for the game and would set a very bad precedent.
Neil Holden > Perpetual MotionJanuary 20, 2026 at 12:19pm
Agreed If you signed with R360 you were not to play in NRL for 10 years. They need to be careful how tjey handle this. R360 will come again so precedent may well damage the game.
Eli Stephens > Perpetual MotionJanuary 20, 2026 at 12:19pm
He will proclaim and we will lift our skirts and curtsy....and hope they use lube on us for once. Yeah, lube would be nice.
We should demand some Lube... If they really want Lomax then Show us the Lube
The Captain > Perpetual MotionJanuary 21, 2026 at 10:25am
Mediation with a gun to our head.
The NRL has leverage over all clubs. Unless ALL clubs other than the Storm stood against this together, I think mediation will be VLandys looking for this to go away, not for it to end fairly.
Unfortunately the cards we hold are only good ones if the NRL backs us, and it appears they aren't.
Hell On Eels > The CaptainJanuary 21, 2026 at 11:52am
Captain, so far V'landys has publicly kept quiet, which is telling. Out of character. The implied "intervention" threats are via the media. Perhaps, as a proxy. What are you suggesting is his "gun to our head": our NRL licence or grants?
Some are trying to argue that we did the same with Lomax leaving Dragons. Big difference. He was released with no conditions, 2 years remaining ripped up.
Dragons did not want compensation or anything just wanted him gone. He then went on to play Origin after all that happened.
"Some are trying to argue that we did the same with Lomax leaving Dragons. Big difference. He was released with no conditions, 2 years remaining ripped up.
Dragons did not want compensation or anything just wanted him gone. He then went on to play…"
"Roosters need a 6 after DCE leaves, they want Moses and they pull strings and V'Landys storms in and drags Moses out of Kellyville and into Bondi. If Parra ask questions they will be threatened. The response is "let it go""
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NRL are only acting as mediators. The contract still holds. As long as we dont fold and the contract is deemed legal we still hold the cards. Allowing a player to effectively break 3 contracts in 2 years is a bad look for the game and would set a very bad precedent.
Agreed If you signed with R360 you were not to play in NRL for 10 years. They need to be careful how tjey handle this. R360 will come again so precedent may well damage the game.
Yeah agree, opens a whole jar of worms 😂
Mediators or bullies?
He will proclaim and we will lift our skirts and curtsy....and hope they use lube on us for once. Yeah, lube would be nice.
We should demand some Lube... If they really want Lomax then Show us the Lube
Mediation with a gun to our head.
The NRL has leverage over all clubs. Unless ALL clubs other than the Storm stood against this together, I think mediation will be VLandys looking for this to go away, not for it to end fairly.
Unfortunately the cards we hold are only good ones if the NRL backs us, and it appears they aren't.
Captain, so far V'landys has publicly kept quiet, which is telling. Out of character. The implied "intervention" threats are via the media. Perhaps, as a proxy. What are you suggesting is his "gun to our head": our NRL licence or grants?
Some are trying to argue that we did the same with Lomax leaving Dragons. Big difference. He was released with no conditions, 2 years remaining ripped up.
Dragons did not want compensation or anything just wanted him gone. He then went on to play Origin after all that happened.
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