Storm refusing to release Inglis.... updated

[mal]

But just don't go in the water, not with that Great White Shark out there. We all know from those kind of movies that the token black character is one of the first to get eaten.

Hahahaha

 

[Foordy]

DISGRUNTLED NRL star Greg Inglis has told close friends he is considering walking away from the code to play rugby union in the south of France for Toulon.

A day after Queensland Origin teammate Justin Hodges warned that Inglis was ready to quit the NRL,

The Courier-Mail has learnt the Maroons centre is being courted by the same club which poached Sonny Bill Williams. Disillusioned over an ongoing $113,000 legal wrangle with the Melbourne Storm, Inglis has confided in members of his inner circle about quitting rugby league for the anonymity of French rugby.

"You're right, he's over it and he's seriously talking about walking away," a source close to Inglis said.

Eccentric multimillionaire Toulon owner Mourad Boudjellal has previously made a play to lure Inglis to Toulon when the Storm salary cap scandal broke in April.

Inglis instead opted to seek a release from the final two years of his Melbourne contract and signed with the Brisbane Broncos. But as of last night, there were no guarantees Inglis would be based at Red Hill next season.

The direct link with Toulon is further enhanced by the connection between Inglis' agent Allan Gainey and the French rugby club. Gainey has previously done deals with Toulon, inking a two-year contract for former NSW Origin winger Luke Rooney midway through 2008.

The Melbourne Storm legal dispute is centred around Inglis being charged with assault against his fiance, Sally Robinson, in August last year. Intent on protecting the Storm's brand, the club hired a top-ranking QC to defend Inglis, with the end result being a legal bill for $113,000.

Inglis expected the Storm to foot the expense but the club has maintained the centre should pay $30,000 of it. So far the Storm have refused to release Inglis from the final two years of his deal to join the Broncos.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/gre ... 5948033722

If the Storm hadn't done enough to hurt the game with their massive rorting over a 5 year period, it now seams that they may force one of the best player in the game out of the NRL :roll:

 

[ningnangnong]

FFS. Any other club and the NRL would step in and sort this out, but we always seem to get overlooked.

If Inglis ends up in another code, I will be thoroughly pissed off. We've already lost Izzy and Hunt, surely the NRL won't let another big name go?

 

[Kaz]

That's what the Storm want to happen.

If they can't have the player, no other NRL club can have them either.

 

[Kimlo]

FFS. Any other club and the NRL would step in and sort this out, but we always seem to get overlooked.

If Inglis ends up in another code, I will be thoroughly pissed off. We've already lost Izzy and Hunt, surely the NRL won't let another big name go?

The NRL should just loosen up and allow this to go off the cap.

 

[ningnangnong]

FFS. Any other club and the NRL would step in and sort this out, but we always seem to get overlooked.

If Inglis ends up in another code, I will be thoroughly pissed off. We've already lost Izzy and Hunt, surely the NRL won't let another big name go?

The NRL should just loosen up and allow this to go off the cap.

Allow what exactly, to go off the cap?

 

[mrslong]

*starting to get worried*

 

[Fozz]

NRL needs to grow some balls and step in.

Why do we always get the shaft in these situations?

 

[Kimlo]

FFS. Any other club and the NRL would step in and sort this out, but we always seem to get overlooked.

If Inglis ends up in another code, I will be thoroughly pissed off. We've already lost Izzy and Hunt, surely the NRL won't let another big name go?

The NRL should just loosen up and allow this to go off the cap.

Allow what exactly, to go off the cap?

The payment obviously eusa_think Melbourne Storm don't want to pay it because it would come out of their cap and we won't pay it for the same reason. NRL loosen up, relax the rules for this(after all it's not every day a club massively rorts the cap for 5 years straight) and just allow to be considered outside of the cap.

If we lose Inglis I will blame it on the Storm and even more so the incompetent NRL administration.

 

[Kimlo]

Why can't Inglis just pay the cash and come to Brisbane. If he wanted to be hear enough then he'd do that I reckon.

Would you give up 30k+ so easily just because you wanted a job? Especially when you can get double or more by going to another job anyway?

 

[Kaz]

Why can't Inglis just pay the cash and come to Brisbane. If he wanted to be hear enough then he'd do that I reckon.

Why should he.

Going by reports he told them to stop when the bill hit about $80,000 & he paid them the $80,000.

Waldron hired the Barrister. (Probably a job for one of the boys)

 

[Flutterby]

If they can't have the player, no other NRL club can have them either.

^^^ THIS

Why can't Inglis just pay the cash and come to Brisbane. If he wanted to be hear enough then he'd do that I reckon.

Why should he.

Going by reports he told them to stop when the bill hit about $80,000 & he paid them the $80,000.

Waldron hired the Barrister. (Probably a job for one of the boys)

^^^^ and THIS

 

[Bucking Beads]

I have a feeling we won't be seeing Inglis in a Bronco jersey after all. I wonder if the Broncos have someone other in mind to sign if he doesn't end up at Red Hill [icon_shru

 

[Porthoz]

I have a feeling we won't be seeing Inglis in a Bronco jersey after all. I wonder if the Broncos have someone other in mind to sign if he doesn't end up at Red Hill [icon_shru

Steve Michaels? [icon_lol1.

 

[Kaz]

I have a feeling we won't be seeing Inglis in a Bronco jersey after all. I wonder if the Broncos have someone other in mind to sign if he doesn't end up at Red Hill

Joel Monaghan would be a cheap buy. [icon_evillaugh

 

[Bucking Beads]

I have a feeling we won't be seeing Inglis in a Bronco jersey after all. I wonder if the Broncos have someone other in mind to sign if he doesn't end up at Red Hill

Joel Monaghan would be a cheap buy. [icon_evillaugh

I expect him to be signed by the dogs...

 

[nopatience101]

I have a feeling we won't be seeing Inglis in a Bronco jersey after all. I wonder if the Broncos have someone other in mind to sign if he doesn't end up at Red Hill [icon_shru

I still think it will be sorted out once all the parties stop posturing and reach a compromise, that includes Schubert. However, if it was to fall through Copley would be heavily in the frame i would imagine, the market is pretty bare on bluechip backs atm.

 

[Coxy]

[quote="Bucking Beads":1tt35jk4]I have a feeling we won't be seeing Inglis in a Bronco jersey after all. I wonder if the Broncos have someone other in mind to sign if he doesn't end up at Red Hill

Joel Monaghan would be a cheap buy. [icon_evillaugh

I expect him to be signed by the dogs...[/quote:1tt35jk4]

No, the Dogs don't like being forced to play with him.