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How innocent and professional they have been. Not.
Grubby club and grubby people!
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How innocent and professional they have been. Not.
Grubby club and grubby people!
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Quote Wildthing="Wildthing"How innocent and professional they have been. Not.
Grubby club and grubby people!'"
Indeed. It seems it's not just us RL folks here. A few Sale Sharks fans think their club are very unprofessional in how they have dealt with the matter as well:-
www.rugbynetwork.net/boards/read ... 4,16029581 |
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Quote Wildthing="Wildthing"How innocent and professional they have been. Not.
Grubby club and grubby people!'"
Indeed. It seems it's not just us RL folks here. A few Sale Sharks fans think their club are very unprofessional in how they have dealt with the matter as well:-
www.rugbynetwork.net/boards/read ... 4,16029581 | |
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Sounds like sour grapes from Sale and Diamond.
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Quote Tigerade="Tigerade"Indeed. It seems it's not just us RL folks here. A few Sale Sharks fans think their club are very unprofessional in how they have dealt with the matter as well:-
www.rugbynetwork.net/boards/read ... 4,16029581'"
To be fair MOST of them are pretty mortified by that statement, as they should be. |
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Quote Tigerade="Tigerade"Indeed. It seems it's not just us RL folks here. A few Sale Sharks fans think their club are very unprofessional in how they have dealt with the matter as well:-
www.rugbynetwork.net/boards/read ... 4,16029581'"
To be fair MOST of them are pretty mortified by that statement, as they should be. | |
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That's quite the positive spin on things! Perhaps castleford shouldn't have settled if that's what they were acting like.
Quote TigeradeGiven that a potentially sizeable proportion of the legal costs may not be recoverable from Sale'"
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That's quite the positive spin on things! Perhaps castleford shouldn't have settled if that's what they were acting like.
Quote TigeradeGiven that a potentially sizeable proportion of the legal costs may not be recoverable from Sale'"
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Given the £50k offered by SD for a quick deal and then him bragging about getting DS for free I'd say Sale are out of pocket by at least £150k on the transfer fee alone.
The whole statement smacks of infant school playground noise and makes them look foolish, churlish, unprofessional and clearly not prepared to hold their hand up at their own skullduggery that caused the issue in the first place.
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The simplest way to show how nonsensical Sale's position is would be to ask how they would respond if any of their squad did what Solomona tried to do - retire from RU and walk away from their contract, straight to another pro team. Even more bizarrely it suggests they would be Ok with that happening if a player 'retired' from living in the north and simply left Sale and signed for an RU club in the south. The logic they are implying can only lead to that being their view.
Oddly enough, I suspect the next contracted player that wants to leave Sale won't be allowed to just walk away.
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They really are the lowest of the low Sale aren't they?! It sounds like they've thrown their toys out the pram and are basically threatening to do it again if they feel like it.
Tin pot club with no support but deep pockets because of owners who clearly have no standards.
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| Quote saleslim="saleslim"The whole episode has been a mess from start to finish.
Diamond has done the club no favours here.
Firstly, he feels the settlement shows Castleford were wrong to reject our first offer of 200k. However, he seems to fail to grasp that Castleford have no obligation to accept any offer for a player under contract.
An email was then published from Diamond to Castleford that withdrew the 200k offer and reduced this to 50k. As such, Castleford never had the opportunity to accept the 200k offer (not that they were under any obligation to do so anyway). Diamond therefore looks a fool to claim Castleford did not benefit financially from the settlement when we only offered 50k and we have ended up paying 200k (plus some legal costs).
A simple search also brings up comments from Diamond claiming we could sign Solomona for free as he had retired and been sacked by Castleford (though how anyone can retire AND be sacked is open to debate!). I begin to wonder whether Diamond has forgotten this, as it seems we have paid 200k (plus legal costs) for a player he was so certain would cost us nothing.
I'm afraid the handling of this by Diamond has been nothing short of amateur and embarrassing, full of contradictions and ridiculous comments.
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I can kind of see his point, they were prepared to pay £200k and in the end they paid £200k.
What he's missing is that it assumes Cas should just have said ok have him and not tried to protect a contracted asset that they didn't want to sell. Likewise if Sale hadn't tapped him up he equally wouldn't have been unsettled.
Very arrogant approach by the chairman and he's just playing the schoolground bully tactic.
The only downside is the DS seems to be playing well there, would have been nice for him to have flopped
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On the other hand, Solomona's replacement - who came with a bit of a damaged goods reputation has outperformed him in the try scoring dept showing which code has the greater depth of talent. I really aren't that bothered how DS goes in the inferior code because no matter how well he does there will always be a core of the yawnion press who will be there to rubbish and never accept him because of his RL background. He chose to mix with such scum so tough.
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| Quote barham red="barham red"I can kind of see his point, they were prepared to pay £200k and in the end they paid £200k.
What he's missing is that it assumes Cas should just have said ok have him and not tried to protect a contracted asset that they didn't want to sell. Likewise if Sale hadn't tapped him up he equally wouldn't have been unsettled.
Very arrogant approach by the chairman and he's just playing the schoolground bully tactic.
The only downside is the DS seems to be playing well there, would have been nice for him to have flopped'"
Was the offer actually genuine on on the table properly, from reading it would seem it might have being mentioned but not offered, I'm not 100% sure of that, plus wouldn't DS agent have gotten a wedge of the fees anyway?
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