Quote: daveyz999 "Widening the argument there I think FA. My argument is the player is contracted to the club, therefore is contracted to play for the club. I never mentioned a any dispute relating to not getting picked, only being farmed out against their will to a dual registration club in a lesser competition. IMO, this is a separate argument.'"
I think you’re confused.
1. You haven’t seen Whitehead’s contract so you don’t know what’s in it. Therefore you don’t know whether the club can dictate to a player that he is farmed out to a dual reg club.
2. However it’s even less complicated than that, since he is not a slave, and cannot be “forced to play Championship rugby” or indeed forced to do anything at all. The only issue is, does any refusal amount to a breach of his contract.
3. There is no sensible distinction between being farmed out to a dual reg club, and being told he’ll not either play or even train with the first team, in the terms you were discussing, namely “being forced out by the current management”.
4. In any case I am struggling to understand how it could be concluded they were “forcing out” a player who, despite being under contract, has very publicly slagged the club and insisted he wants to leave. Maybe you could help. And explain that one, as it beats the hell out of me.
Quote: daveyz999 "Completely agree - that's why we never had to pay Awford for shopping round whilst he was on contract. Agent Mimmis never said a word to said player, and he never interfered in any way. TBH, I got the impression agent Mimmis may have adised his client to eat numerous bowls of porridge.......'"
Now you need to be very careful. Awford produced medical evidence that led to events turning out the way they did. I do hope you aren’t claiming this was fake, and something like a scam engineered by him and his agent? I’m not sure whoever provided the medical report would be too impressed.
As for shopping around, surely, that is precisely the full time job of every player’s agent? As in “perfectly normal”? What do you think agents actually do?
Quote: daveyz999 "Looking at the RFL player rules'"
… is a waste of time as while the player is bound by them, they are not his contract with the club, which is a completely different thing…
Quote: daveyz999 "Rule "G" under Dual Registration states player needs to approve the move '"
.. unless you actually read it, in which case it says no such thing
Quote: daveyz999 "At the end of the day if Whitehead would have to play for Dewsbury and his agent advises him not to play, Whitehead may wake the morning of the game and find that his hamstring is a little tight, … Whitehead may scream in pain. See where i'm going with this? '"
Yes, you’ve moved on from casting serious aspersions about Awford to suggesting that Whitehead might get round any request to play by faking injury and being able to fool doctors. I’m not sure he’d be happy at any suggestion he might act in this deceitful way nor do I think for a second that the Bulls’ medical staff are so stupid that they would fall for any such ridiculous ploy.
