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Message: [QUOTE="subsbligh, post: 2623370, member: 1950"] Milford signed a contract with us for 2014 and sought to exercise a right in his contract with the Raiders to terminate if his father was sick. Raiders disputed his exercise of that right was valid. i.e. they said that his father was perfectly well. Notwithstanding that this wasn't in the best interest of the player, and is inherently abhorrent. The precise wording of the clause giving Milford that right would be absolutely determinative of the issue. The precise wording was never released to the media, to the fans or probably not even the Broncos. So I don't know what his contract said. NRL never expressed a view in public about whether they would register the Milford 2014 Broncos contract. No doubt in private they held their reservations but left the Broncos and Raiders to sort it out. Nevertheless, no doubt Milford thought the risk of sitting on the side lines for 2014 outweighed the benefit of legal action testing his right to terminate and his ability to play for the Broncos for 2014. The rest is history, Raiders runners up for the spoon behind the ASADA cheats, Ricky's an idiot, 2015 is almost upon us and his obstanance served no-one but to prove a bizaare egotistical point, or the bizaare hope that somehow in the first 6 months of 2014 they could convince Milford to stay (which in itself was completely reliant on the idea he was lying in the first place about his father and actually was purely financially motived - way to build trust in your playing group). ...And the Broncos made the finals without Milford anyway and struck gold with Ben Hunt, Dale Copley, Daniel Vidot and the rest of our other home grown players. So **** you Ricky Stuart and Don Furner. [/QUOTE]

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