Quote ="Halfdan of t'wide embrace"Properly drawn up contracts are binding. We could have offered £50m and if Penrith refused to release him he couldn't have stayed.
It's not like football where the sheer transfer value and tendency to short contracts puts the player in the driving seat if they want out. A 4 year contract instantly gives the club the upper hand.
Besides given the option of Broncos continuing to hurl David's money down the drain at an unsustainable rate or starting work that might see a viable club emerge in the long run I'd vote for the latter. Just preferably in a slightly more managed manner than London delivered.'"
In rugby league, when a player is unhappy staying with the club --- even if it is just because he wants to go to an overseas club --- the club usually lets him go and doesn't enforce its contract. It happens all the time in the NRL, most notably recently with Samuel Burgess leaving South Sydney Rabbitohs for Bath rugby union. It happened in Super League recently with Rhys Lovegrove leaving Hull Kingston Rovers for London Broncos.
