NRL approve contracts

The NRL - National Rugby League has finally approved the contracts of Foran and Woods to the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs.We were told that the dogs were well over the expected cap for the 2018 season, yet with the cap going up another 300k then first guessed and with the dogs releasing James Graham (still paying a large chunk of his salary) and Brad Abbey we are now meant to believe they are under the cap, as new coach Pay has resigned hooker Lichaa.It will be an interesting few weeks to see exactly who the dogs end up keeping as the cap situation at the club is still at boiling point due to Hasler's love of back ended contracts and signing Woods and Foran on such large contracts.There is still talk that one or both of the Morris twins or possibly former New Zealand international could be moved on. All 3 players are reported to be on a minimum $700k next season.

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  • if they could sell Cronk the rooster then guess they think the dodo fans will believe anything. With the talk of releasing the ventriloquist dummy, sounds like the roosters may not be finished yet either! Maybe the Morris boys will go there.
    Crazy stuff and we only have 500 in our cap left to offer hayne apparently. Go figure.
  • Amazing how some clubs just get everything rubber stamped by the NRL no questions asked........

  • If the dogs pay half for the Morris I like to half them

  • and how do they get away with swapping Abbey for Priest and now cap-compliant?

    All they let go were sam kas and graham to lose 1m in cap? But they are reportedly paying a fair chunk of Grahams salary out of 2018 cap.

    How? 

  • PARRAMATTA EELS BOARD ROOM RECORDING: 10 December 2013

    SCOTT SEWARD (EX-CEO):

    "We do need, and what we’ll do, is we’ll actually sit down and go through TPA’s as a whole. There’s a few different options. I’ve spoken to Todd Greenberg about the way that CANTERBURY, and the best options, I’ve spoken to Wayne Beavis to tell us how f$%^ed we are, um, and the like."

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm........
    • Unfortunately it gives rise to nothing more solid than "hmmmmm".

      Seward's been coming out saying the NRL hung him out to dry, scapegoated him. He's packing shelves or whatever. He's fighting to stay out of gaol.

      As I see it he has no apparent reason to protect anyone and if anyone has a motive to blow the whistle it's him.

    • He won't go to gaol and never would have. He knew that straight up because oflegal advice he would been given by any lawyer. The chance was zero. The criminal record thing though, now that was a potential issue for him. But he has got over that hurdle anyway.

      He even has a job so has nothing to complain about.

      Truth is he wasn't up to the task and got advice from Greenberg about how to structure the salary cap like the bulldogs do. The subsequent breaches are therefore in part attributable to those discussions with Greenberg on how bulldogs structure their tpas.

      Everyone read the words again "I’ve spoken to Todd Greenberg about the way that CANTERBURY, and the best options." This is past tense, as such the assertion to be gleened from this comment is that what he had done up until at least the point he made in that comment was wholly or substantially due to the advice Greenberg gave him.

      Let's also not forget the important point that his comments about Canterbury were made in circumstances that would make highly likely to be both reliable and truthful. What we have here is a person making comments at a time when he believes no one else will hear, let alone read them. Point being it would be easy to submit them as fact on any legal test.

      This my friend is far more than hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. There is no doubt more to this but the reality is this is extremely incriminating for the bulldogs and the fact the media either A) doesn't have the intelligence to pick up on this or B) chooses to ignore it, is of great concern.
    • Mwdia would know they just realise greenburg is no going to order the integrity unit to investigate his time at canterbury so nothing will happen
    • Sorry dudes at the end of that you're still left with nothin. The media won't touch it because of a little thing called defamation.
    • Snap out of it. You can't say Greenberg oversaw systematic rorting of the salary cap at the bulldogs by abusing TPA's AND was instrumental in the Eels cap rorts, on the strength of that single reference. You publish that allegation, or even insinuate it, and you'll get cleaned up. Quite a few men went down over this, but none are dragging Greenberg with them. Let me guess, he paid em off right?
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