Foordy
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- Mar 4, 2008
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I'm not even sure we are talking about the same thing anymore.
The only way it happens that a club continues to pay if a player requests a release is by agreement OR if the club has shopped a player around.
If the Titans had said no to Hayne he can't simply say I'm going and you pay the difference.
If he requests a release and the Titans say ok he still won't get paid anything from the Titans unless they agree to make up the shortfall.
If this was the case every time a player got the shits he would tell his manager to look around and take whatever was available knowing the club he was leaving had to pay the difference.
It simply cannot work that way.
"At the end of the day he could have easily pulled out more money from the Titans, he could have easily gone through for the next two months in pre-season, got six figures from the club to bolster his Parramatta contract.
“But he’s told the club he’s prepared to go now without a cent is my understanding. He deserves some credit from that, he’s not a mercenary in this instance.”
Hayne will be giving up a rich $1.2 million per season deal to return to the Eels."
that doesn't come from the same reporter that has been claiming all season that Bird regrets signing his deal with the Broncos and is desperate to remain in the shire (despite all evidence to the contrary), is it?
I personally think that when a league writer includes lines like "is my understanding", that is code for "I really have no idea, but i'll make something up that sounds good"
a headline like 'shattered Hayne leaves Titans for Eels' is clear evidence that they make shit up because Hayne has been trying to get back to the Eels since he failed at the NFL