Apparently woods has taken a pay cut to help out the bulldogs with their salary cap before heading to Cronulla . Correct me if I’m wrong but this is against the rules.
I distinctly remember we weren’t allowed to do the same to keep Kevin Kingston in 2010. You cant reduce salaries to sort out salary caps. The reason for this rule is simple... it effectively disadvantages the player’s original club (I.e. tigers) because they could have decided to keep woods at the time if it had been for that reduced amount. As such, they lose him and another club (I.e. Cronulla) gets to take advantage of this.
https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/06/26/why-aaron-woods-took-a-pay-cut-to-become-a-shark/
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No, but this is a major issue. It can’t be ignored. It is cheating the cap. It undermines the whole purpose of the cap and gives two teams an advantage over the other clubs.
Israel Folau
Yes you are correct in the sense you can't reduce your salary to stay at a club.
However that doesn't stop Wood's "requesting" a release to take up an opportunity on less money. The article doesn't specify that the dogs will have to continue paying part of his sharks salary. But it does say earlier in the year Dogs were shopping him around, hence the reason I put his "request" in quotation marks.
If the dogs are paying any of his salary, even if it’s $1, then it is cheating. They enticed him away from the tigers by offering him more money.
Let’s make something clear, Woods failed for nsw, but he is a good nrl player, with big game experience, and was captain of the tigers. He also has a good motor for a big man and has a very handy offload.
There is no way around it this scenario regardless of how you look it means the Bulldogs disadvantage the tigers.
Again you are correct, if the dogs are paying anything it is against the rules that govern our game.
But if the dogs aren't paying anything, and Wood's has just taken a pay cut to move to the sharks (to be paid in full by them), then technically the dogs haven't done anything wrong.
I say we still should have made a big play for woods
But nooooo we mite be getting Shaun's lane so much BETTER NOT
if you ask me I think trex is 100 times better but I hope he retire with beau scott
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