Quote: Wigan Peer "I know people like to bang on about contracts here, but it's obvious to all and sundry that they are just not as binding as we the fans would like them to be, and will probably never be so. Many have this IL hobby-horse, and i suppose he is at fault for Burgess going to the RFU..!!!! It would appear that contract are open to being broken, and i can only assume, that that is the way they are written as a norm...
Money talks, end of, and players will not sign contract they can't get out of. The choice about whether to honour them, is as much down to the player as the club.'"
I doubt Hansen had a get out clause whereas we now know know Mossop and Sam had such clauses. I doubt Hansen was the least bit dewy eyed about playing for Salford as was made out and had the club offered an extension mid way through last season when Hansen himself said he was happy to stay I think he'd still be our player. So it is not all down to players wanting away IMO but also at least in this case the
clubs desire to sell. The club also does not have to agree to get out clauses such as Mossop and Sam had in the first place and needs to decide if it is worth signing players to so called long term deals when they are anything but if players insist on such clauses. The first I heard of Mossop's get out clause was after he left and I don't think it is fair to fans to give the impression certain players are here for 5 or whatever years when the club are virtually certain they won't be.
While I am under no illusion due to the poor deal the RFL have done with Sky we as a sport have ruled out keeping any world class players it needs to manage this so at the end of each season we don't start the next season with virtually a new side. It can do that by not being so keen to sell good players who it could realistically keep like Hansen and not seemingly being taken by surprise that we end up losing the likes of Mossop and Sam at the same time as others such as Richards have contracts that have actually run their course.
If Green leaves at the end of this season as he says he wants to I have no problem with that. He signed for two years and he is going to do two years. I always thought he wasn't given longer because the club had an eye to junior players being ready to take over and if so this looks like a good plan. IMO this is far better than saying you have signed someone for five years for them to leave after two as soon as someone comes knocking.
We won't get a fee for Green but then we won't have a player on a contract with a get out clause which means he has his mind elsewhere or will be distracted by endless speculation. This has got to be preferable to wondering just when RU for the NRL are going to make a bid and must make Wane's job easier.
