TPAs are arranged between a manager, their player and the sponsoring company. All apparently without club involvement. What happens then? Does the TPA go to the Club to vet or the NRL?
Now the serious bit, if the club has no involvement in arranging these, how can the conflict of interest rules be monitored. Lets look at this from a practical point of view. TPA submitted to club showing ScoreCube and they have no commercial arrangement with them. The only way the club can check is to obtain company records from ASIC and check the members.
On another tact, is there a commercial relationship between a board member and the club? I mention this as the Cowboys chairman apparently arranges his building company to sell discounted houses to their players. As the chairman is representing the club, firstly isn't now the club arranging TPAs and secondly is there a commercial relationship? I don't think in this instance that the chairman and club can be separated. I really don't know but the NRL says it is ok. Would it be ok if Sharp was giving players discounted plumbing services?
We all know that clubs are involved in arranging TPAs. But in a scenario as stated above, where NRL insists on no club involvement, how can conflict of interest rules be checked? That rule is a bit self defeating with no club involvement but also no commercial relationship with club. Does this seen a ridiculous rule to anyone other than me?
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E.g.
Say a TPA, that involved a Principal of a wealthy corporation who was a die hard Roosters supporter (& happened to be a friend of a friend of a friend of Nick Polotis) & wanted to provide a very lucrative TPA for J.Hayne - be 'related' to the Roosters club ?
Why would a corporation want to outlay money , via a TPA, to NRL player they didn't at least like ?