Looks like we will get shafted once again, I wonder if the NRL would step in if it was the Tigers pushing to get Lomax
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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. 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?
I don't think he has the gun he thinks he does. I would call his bluff and pick this fight. All in
The media is always VLandys proxy. He very rarely directly implicates himself. His threat will be that he can make our life in the NRL very hard - they sign off on all player contracts, all on-cap TPAs, they decide when to look away or when to audit clubs. Again, maybe it's all bluff, but we can't burn a bridge with VLandys and the NRL because we're bedfellows.
To be honest I would go "all in" too, because VLandys doesn't want this going to court as both a win or a loss would look bad (win looks bad for VLandys and his ability to tell teams what to do, and a loss is even worse as it basically means exit clauses for contracts are a waste of time and we could expect to see this happening all the time). VLandys has shown that he is full of bluff a lot of the time. We just have to decide whether this is a hill we want to die on, and what "good" looks like for us in this scenario.
Like what do we actually want. We can't force a Storm player to come here. And if Lomax really does take us to court there's a decent chance we lose. A transfer fee is better than nothing, but it's not like our club actually needs a cash injection, so it's just more on the pile and doesn't help our footy team.
I still like the idea of going in guns blazing because VLandys is probably all bark no bite as always. But I don't know what "winning" this situation actually looks like for us.
The media is where i would run this hardest. Straight and sideways
A win for me now may just look like Lomax sitting it out for 1yr a punishment for fucking us about. More than a year is cruel and unusual but I think we need to plonk him for a season as a line in the sand. We needed him this year. Melb can't have him . Fuck 'em both. Or we look like pussies
Randy/Cap,
Holding the line and going “all in” is great, I'm in, but as Cap asks: What does a win actually look like?
A transfer fee isn’t a win. We’re a club with over $110m in revenue and $170m in assets.
I see two genuine winning outcomes:
1. A negotiated peace treaty with Lomax With real sweeteners, such as an early 1 Nov 2027 unconditional release for R360. Honestly, I think we probably win if Lomax litigates anyway, and at worst he can probably kiss the NRL in 2026 goodbye.
2. A swap (my preferred option) There will be players looking for exits. If we can land a longer-term piece, ideally a quality outside back or a middle who could eventually take over from Junior, or even two solid contributors with upside rather than a single star; even if we top it up with cash. But realistically, how many genuine swap deals do we actually see?
We can always offer Lomax a future release for 2027 if we secure a good swap deal for next year.
I’d target a late Feb-Mar to 30 June window, when more clubs may be able to fit Lomax in.
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