StaffsT1ger wrote:
of course, Judas Solomona having "retired" from RL, should he fail to make it in union - and that is far from certain - he shouldn't be allowed to crawl back to our sport.
Well, lets not stoop to Unions level, its not that long ago that Union was banning their players from ever playing their version again if they switched to RL, contracts weren't even an issue, most were ooc, free agents, all they had to do was play RL professionally, I don't think we want that kind of pathetic assholery in our sport.
No, this is Sale's and the RFU's barrel of monkeys to sort out, if DS doesn't want to play for Cas anymore nobody can do anything about that, it happens all the time in sport, Cas gotta let him go and take the money, the money Sale should be paying for the transfer is what its about, and less about DS's lack of commitment/professionalism.
It is a measure of the utter disdain and contempt the RFU have for RL as a sport, to accept that they owe Cas would be to admit they are competing with RL for market share, its a far greater insult to ignore that a sport even exists than to do business with it and fund it indirectly.
I suppose there won't be much mileage in going to court with a case revolving around the similarities of both games and the idea that players are fairly readily interchangeable, although that's really the crux of the thing, no they're gonna try bugger Sale up by preventing DS from playing by arguing the toss about contract technicalities between DS and Cas, which will not fix the broader issue.
