Is the NRL losing its integrity given the contractual situation of both players and coaches alike. I personally hate the fact our sport has such an “ill disciplined” contractual situation. How do we as a sport stop the rot and make contracts mean something. As a fan you don’t want to chop and change your recruitment on a whim, you want to support the team, if that team have no confidence in the organisation what chance do we as fans have expecting results?
Thoughts?
Agree. It’s a poor look. NRL is a circus run by a bunch of clowns.
But, woe is me, Panthers got the ball rolling. Something I’m not
proud of.
What do you do about it. Maybe we should have an annual reserve or assistant coaches draft for those looking for a first grade gig.This way should things go awry half way through a season you know precisely who’s next cab off the rank.
Buggered if I know !!!
Agree, it is not a good look, and far from ideal. That said, I’m not too sure what can be done about it.
A contract (whether for a player or a coach) is there for the benefit & protection of both parties. Once one wants to exit the contract, the contract ‘protects’ the other party, but at the end of the day, what club wants a player or coach who doesn’t want to be there, or won’t be there to the contact end? So ultimately the parties mutually agree to break the contract.
Of course, there have been cases where both parties could not agree, and if one party stands their ground, it literally becomes a stand-off. Going back, I recall the Russell Mullins fiasco at our club, where they tried to ‘sack’ him and he just turned up for training, so they had to pay him. Or Tallis, who sat out the remainder of his contract when the club wouldn’t release him to go elsewhere.
In the past, clubs used to blame the player managers for all this contract breaking, and of course all clubs blame the salary cap when they want to move people along. As Puss says our club were deeply involved in the coaching merry-go-round, including sacking a recently re-signed coach, and chasing a contracted one (who we had previously sacked), and Gould gave 3 contracted players permission to seek deals elsewhere during 2018. The players were not initially named, but it is now obvious that they were Peachey, CHN and Merrin, who are all gone now - early.
I will support our club, our players and coach (well maybe with a bit of criticism 
) but that doesn’t mean I support some of the things the club does.
yeah … what he said. 
Verbal and NRL contracts are not worth the paper they are written on.
… if these so-called contracts are registered with the NRL
for ‘salary cap’ purposes, don’t the NRL ultimately have the
power to veto them. Whoops, back where we started, NRL.
Wouldn’t the verbal ones not be worth the paper they’re not written on?
Maybe an age system, if your under 20 say, you cannot sign for more than 2 years, 20 - 25 3 years, 25-30 5 years, after 30 it’s club risk as long as you want.
Regardless it all boils down to the legalities of the document, but if the NRL took a stance of contract conformity, the game itself would be better off IMO.
I hate what is happening ATM particularly cause it’s the Panthers…ugly, ugly, ugly
Apparently the NRL are going to look at restrictions on signing coachesmore than a year out now. It would have saved the mess that this offseason has become amongst the coaching ranks.
History repeating…at different clubs.
Just read Mary McGregor has “quit” after this round, that poor bloke has been under so much pressure it’s not funny. OK his results are not great, but his last year or so have been nothing but scrutiny and whispers which cannot be good for your mindset.
To make matters worse with this one, BLIND FREDDY can see that Flanagan is running the show, even though he isn’t allowed too. How can the NRL even think that their penalty for all of his indiscretions (cheating included) are being adhered to. Flanagan is the Dragons coach, END OF STORY !!!
I have never seen what McGregor had as a coach to get 7 years at dragons.
I hope that he goes and visits his Dad today & generally catches up with the life he has been missing whilst in the bubble.
When he sits down for a beer, maybe he will see that his time was up. The help from Goose Gould proved as good as useless of course ( I see Gould is now distancing himself from THE review as he continues to re-write history) , including the drug coach being appointed as his offsider - that was always going to work, not.
When Mary’s big signings for 2020 were Luke and Merrin, his job was gone.
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