NRL to go all out to retain Hayne

A DAY after Jarryd Hayne revealed he was open to big-money offers from rival codes, including French rugby, NRL head of football Brian Canavan said “we’ll do everything in our powers to keep Jarryd in the game’’.Canavan was working as the Gold Coast Titans chief operating officer when talks about luring the Hayne Plane to the club first commenced.While he had returned to Sydney to take up a role with the NRL before Hayne was delivered to the Titans, Canavan said rugby league was the main code on the star No.1’s mind at the time.Jarryd Hayne is open to big-money offers from rival codes.“The impression he gave via his manager was he wanted to come back into the NRL to find his feet again,’’ Canavan said.“Jarryd has achieved a lot, he has a sense of adventure in his life at this stage, but within the NRL’s powers, we’ll do everything to keep him in the game.’’Former NRL boss Dave Smith once spruiked a ‘’war chest’’ had been set aside to help keep some of the game’s biggest stars from joining rival codes, but that money would never be used while Todd Greenberg is in charge.Jarryd Hayne has fielded interest from French rugby. Picture: Mark EvansHayne, who has an option in his favour to remain with the Titans in 2018, said there had been interest from French rugby, ‘’and for me it’s the timing of it, and whether I want to chance my arm at it’’.“Everything is an option, I don’t like to live in a narrow vision,’’ he said.“As kids, we are encouraged to try every sport we can, so as an adult, why should that change?’’

"HFK, Fair point. Sure, we could. But balancing incoming youth with experience is almost a perennial issue. A constant cycle. It never really goes away. At least not for too long. "

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Optimistic eel February 8, 2017 at 1:06pm

So titans will legally rort the cap to keep hayne nothin suss
- Longfin Eel > Optimistic eel February 8, 2017 at 7:00pm
  
  AFL is a serious threat on the Gold Coast. Not such an issue in Parramatta at the moment and we are not really in direct competition with the Wanderers. The NRL will break their own rules to try to fix this.
Ed February 8, 2017 at 1:08pm

Gee the mysterious Dave smith war chest does exist only NRL owned clubs lol!! Fucken joke let him go French rugby fucken has been
CP February 8, 2017 at 1:09pm

The "War Chest" only for the clubs the NRL wants players to play for.
- Nitram > CP February 8, 2017 at 2:13pm
  
  Or maybe the NRL are worried that every other club (outside those that they own) has read up on the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.
Mr 'BringBackFitzy' Analyst February 8, 2017 at 1:14pm

I'm so happy this article has been written, just to show how fukin corrupt the NRL is.
- CarloEEL2 > Mr 'BringBackFitzy' Analyst February 8, 2017 at 1:32pm
  
  Do you think he realises that he is starting to become even more of a parody if he keeps code hopping and losing any credibility he once had
  
  Mb he just hates it at the titans and wants to use it as leverage to come back to syd???
Longfin Eel February 8, 2017 at 1:28pm

I don't reckon the NRL would have said that if Hayne was playing for us. “The impression he gave via his manager was he wanted to come back into the NRL to find his feet again’’. This to me suggests that he was always going to Rugby and used this year in a sport he knows well to get his body right. If that is the case, we probably dodged a bigger bullet than we realised.
Kramerica February 8, 2017 at 1:30pm

Agree - he will chase the $$ - - he hasn't exactly set the world on fire over the last 3 years. Maybe League has passed him by and Canavan's just too much of a fool to realise it.
- Mitchy > Kramerica February 8, 2017 at 2:21pm
  
  Agree Kram, he's all about him. I wonder if he was with us, the NRL would say the same?
  Think Hayne just loves being the news....I still think Henry up at Titans has seen through him.