Roberts signed with Broncos last week and is using that 10 day period to get a better offer from the Dragons.
* A player may sign an extension of his contract with his existing club at any time;
* A player may sign with a new club only during the final year of his contract;
* A 10 business day cooling off period will apply to all contracts; and,
* A club signing a player is prohibited from making an announcement until the cooling off period has expired.
Greenberg said that a contract signed with a rival club would now be registered once a 10 business day cooling off period had expired.
Here are the details off that article, it doesn't mention free agents:
It was preceded with this though:
Note "rival club".
Would rather we spend the money on Teo. We have more than capable centres in Kahu, Copley & Reed to fill the void. An impact forward would be gold for us.
Agreed.I am the other way round we have plenty of impact forwards coming through, but we don't have any outside backs of the calibre and potential of Roberts.