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Message: [QUOTE="Jason Simmons, post: 2576634, member: 8275"] Or they didn't actually have a contract in place just "agreement" ala Inglis and the Broncos or the clubs chose not to enforce their contractual rights, or... There could be any number of explanations for these issues and there could also be pre-existing contractual arrangements in place that ALL NRL clubs and ALL registered NRL players agree to give the NRL final say over whether their contracts are legitimate. You'd have to see the contract to know whether NRL is actually a party to these contracts or merely involved through registering the club or player. If the NRL had contractual rights over clubs and players I very much doubt we'd have seen a superstar of the game be allowed to sit out a season (Tallis) or that any player would ever have broken contract and left the game ala SBW in 2008. I can see why a club might not want to take a player to court but the NRL not being so closely aligned shouldn't matter. I can see that it would be to the NRL's benefit to have a player involved in the game and if they had contractual rights to enforce that contract, they likely would do it. But they haven't... Personally I believe (not having yet seen to the contrary) that these contracts will only be between club and player. NRL's only involvement is registering said contract (and ergo the player in the competition) as a method by which the player is allowed (or licenced if you will) to play within the NRL. It seems more likely to me that the legitimacy or otherwise of the contract, as with all contracts in society is the prerogative of the courts, not the NRL or any other employer... [/QUOTE]

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