Paddy on Tour Down Under - Number 5
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@barbarian said in Paddy on Tour Down Under - Number 5:
It's a bit strange. I could understand if Samu was a Kiwi with an Aussie grandmother we were trying to poach or something. But the bloke is an Aussie.
And it's not even like he's that good, either.
well, yes, quite.
And he is an "Aussie" who has played as much senior rugby in England as in Australia, and has never played pro rugby anywhere except in NZ. But he was born in that rugby heartland of Melbourne.
I guess the NZRU are most worried about precedent. This is the 2nd dude in a month who has asked for a similar release. They were signed to NZ contracts on the understanding that they were NZ players who wished to play for the ABs. Now they want to play for someone else (someone else just happening to be countries where they have never played a professional game), i would imagine, with our limited player resources, that this is not a practice we want to encourage.
So while i think that old Aussie Pete (Pweter) will get to fulfill his life-long dream of pulling on a canary yellow jersey, i don't have any issue with the NZRU making sure these poaching unions have to jump through a few hoops to make use of the players we are developing for them.
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@kiwimurph said in Paddy on Tour Down Under - Number 5:
Why should NZR foot the bill if the ARU are the ones that want him? The NZR haven't stopped him from going - they've put a proposal to the ARU to allow Samu a release. NZR just want some compensation. It works both ways - NZR had to cough up $ to get Naholo out of his overseas contract a few years back.
Foot what bill? The bill is surely un-issued? The Ta$man season is still 2 months away from even starting.
The money Ta$man have set aside to pay Samu in from August to October is retained, they pay that to someone else.
They're trying to make a profit out of him moving? They will retain the budgeted 25-50k they would have paid him plus they're now trying to obtain 50k from the ARU (if rumours are to be believed). Are they going to replace him with two players?
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@mariner4life said in Paddy on Tour Down Under - Number 5:
I guess the NZRU are most worried about precedent. This is the 2nd dude in a month who has asked for a similar release. They were signed to NZ contracts on the understanding that they were NZ players who wished to play for the ABs. Now they want to play for someone else (someone else just happening to be countries where they have never played a professional game), i would imagine, with our limited player resources, that this is not a practice we want to encourage.
So while i think that old Aussie Pete (Pweter) will get to fulfill his life-long dream of pulling on a canary yellow jersey, i don't have any issue with the NZRU making sure these poaching unions have to jump through a few hoops to make use of the players we are developing for them.
I think Shields and Samu are chalk and cheese.
Samu didn't arrive in Nelson aged 22 still in nappies and unable to catch a ball and Ta$man and the NZRU haven't nurtured him from an eat through a straw blob to awesome rugby player.
Ta$man is a step on his journey.
He's been in NZ for 3 and a half years. If he's signed one of these clause 9.38 dual eligibilty contracts, then this year is the first he's been able to do it. he's not been spending the last 3 years on NZRU dual-eligibilty extra moo-la, because he hasn't been eligible for it until 6 months ago.
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@rapido said in Paddy on Tour Down Under - Number 5:
@mariner4life said in Paddy on Tour Down Under - Number 5:
I guess the NZRU are most worried about precedent. This is the 2nd dude in a month who has asked for a similar release. They were signed to NZ contracts on the understanding that they were NZ players who wished to play for the ABs. Now they want to play for someone else (someone else just happening to be countries where they have never played a professional game), i would imagine, with our limited player resources, that this is not a practice we want to encourage.
So while i think that old Aussie Pete (Pweter) will get to fulfill his life-long dream of pulling on a canary yellow jersey, i don't have any issue with the NZRU making sure these poaching unions have to jump through a few hoops to make use of the players we are developing for them.
I think Shields and Samu are chalk and cheese.
Samu didn't arrive in Nelson aged 22 still in nappies and unable to catch a ball and Ta$man and the NZRU haven't nurtured him from an eat through a straw blob to awesome rugby player.
Ta$man is a step on his journey.
He's been in NZ for 3 and a half years. If he's signed one of these clause 9.38 dual eligibilty contracts, then this year is the first he's been able to do it. he's not been spending the last 3 years on NZRU dual-eligibilty extra moo-la, because he hasn't been eligible for it until 6 months ago.
I don't disagree with anything you have written here at all. When he signed that contract though, he didn't know where that journey was heading.
I have zero problems with him being a Wallaby, and i expect him to be available, but i also have zero issues with the NZRU not just opening the door and escorting him to the plane.
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I see your point, M4L, and I don't expect the NZRU to roll out the red carpet. But 50k? Come on.
Especially after the Rebels allowed Tyrel Lomax to leave his contract a year early to go to NZ to follow his dream of being an All Black. He hadn't played any pro rugby in NZ, and had actually been developed in the famous heartland you speak of - Melbourne.
But fundamentally this is all just a game and people should be allowed to represent their chosen country if at all possible.
Getting bogged down and demanding payments makes me feel a little dirty about the whole thing. I'm sure they can find another way to compensate the Crusaders/ Ta$man.
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@barbarian said in Paddy on Tour Down Under - Number 5:
I see your point, M4L, and I don't expect the NZRU to roll out the red carpet. But 50k? Come on.
Especially after the Rebels allowed Tyrel Lomax to leave his contract a year early to go to NZ to follow his dream of being an All Black. He hadn't played any pro rugby in NZ, and had actually been developed in the famous heartland you speak of - Melbourne.
But fundamentally this is all just a game and people should be allowed to represent their chosen country if at all possible.
Getting bogged down and demanding payments makes me feel a little dirty about the whole thing. I'm sure they can find another way to compensate the Crusaders/ Ta$man.
yep, the compensation angle doesn't sit right with me either, that seems a step too far. And petty. I know the NZRU aren't above petty.
Who is Tyrel Lomax? Johnie's kid?
I'm not sure i am quite as free thinking as your "just a game" line, international rugby already has too many blurry edges. But yea, i know it's a business, but sometimes can we remember it's a sport?
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@mariner4life said in Paddy on Tour Down Under - Number 5:
yep, the compensation angle doesn't sit right with me either, that seems a step too far. And petty. I know the NZRU aren't above petty.
Who is Tyrel Lomax? Johnie's kid?
I'm not sure i am quite as free thinking as your "just a game" line, international rugby already has too many blurry edges. But yea, i know it's a business, but sometimes can we remember it's a sport?
Yeah John's kid - a prop. He's was a gun last year and though I haven't seen any of him this year I think he's a great prospect.
And I agree, and I'll use that 'just a game' line when it suits my argument. I don't think any union is in position to call the other cold, money-grabbing misers... but I certainly can!
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@barbarian said in Paddy on Tour Down Under - Number 5:
And I agree, and I'll use that 'just a game' line when it suits my argument. I don't think any union is in position to call the other cold, money-grabbing misers... but I certainly can!
Love the honesty!
Wish SANZAARSE would take rugby based decisions to support credibility in Super Rugby ... and that 'best for rugby' had been considered in the 2003 clean stadium debacle.
But yep, the moral high ground with feet of clay is the place to be on the internet
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Looks to me like NZRU are building a precedent for any future players in this situation.
Is this payment a one-off or any time he has to be released to play for Oz?
If Samu is paid extra for being eligible for NZ Rugby does this mean he now takes a salary cut once he plays for Oz?
If he plays for Oz are his playing opportunities for his team now reduced?
Hope it works out ok for the player.
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@mariner4life said in Paddy on Tour Down Under - Number 5:
yep, the compensation angle doesn't sit right with me either, that seems a step too far. And petty.
I don't think it is petty. Quite simply, would he be in the frame of Wallaby selection if it wasn't for the investment NZR has made in his development? It's not like he was on the cusp and decide to add an NPC season to his resume for shits and giggles.
There's a good reason FIFA endorse a transfer payment model
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@antipodean said in Paddy on Tour Down Under - Number 5:
@mariner4life said in Paddy on Tour Down Under - Number 5:
yep, the compensation angle doesn't sit right with me either, that seems a step too far. And petty.
I don't think it is petty. Quite simply, would he be in the frame of Wallaby selection if it wasn't for the investment NZR has made in his development? It's not like he was on the cusp and decide to add an NPC season to his resume for shits and giggles.
There's a good reason FIFA endorse a transfer payment model
Not for playing international games though. He’s not leaving his “club” for another.
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Peter Samu ruled out of Ireland Test series after Rugby Australia turn down New Zealand cash offer
Kiwis’ cash demand ends Samu’s Wallaby dream
Peter Samu ruled out of Ireland Test series after Rugby Australia turn down New Zealand cash
AUSTRALIAN Rugby has turned down a Kiwi demand of financial compensation for the services of Crusaders flanker Pete Samu.
In an outcome which rules Samu out of making his Test debut for the Wallabies against Ireland this month, New Zealand Rugby confirmed its stipulations hadn’t been met.While neither national union has publicly said what the deal entailed, it is widely believed NZR required cash compensation before it would grant the 26-year-old a release from his Crusaders contract.
In a written statement, NZR head of professional rugby Chris Lendrum confirmed trans- Ta$man bosses hadn’t come to terms.
Pete Samu's Australian debut will have to wait a little longer.Source: AAP
“We have attempted to resolve this matter in good faith but our proposals have not been accepted,” Lendrum said.
“New Zealand Rugby remains open to resolving the issues.”RA hasn’t commented although Wallabies coach Michael Cheika
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@rapido said in Paddy on Tour Down Under - Number 5:
@kiwimurph said in Paddy on Tour Down Under - Number 5:
Why should NZR foot the bill if the ARU are the ones that want him? The NZR haven't stopped him from going - they've put a proposal to the ARU to allow Samu a release. NZR just want some compensation. It works both ways - NZR had to cough up $ to get Naholo out of his overseas contract a few years back.
Foot what bill? The bill is surely un-issued? The Ta$man season is still 2 months away from even starting.
The money Ta$man have set aside to pay Samu in from August to October is retained, they pay that to someone else.
They're trying to make a profit out of him moving? They will retain the budgeted 25-50k they would have paid him plus they're now trying to obtain 50k from the ARU (if rumours are to be believed). Are they going to replace him with two players?
Fuck them, they can buy out the contract as compensation for Samu being paid extra to be a New Zealander. He wants out if the rest of that contract then he, or someone, forks out to do so. Simples.
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@barbarian said in Paddy on Tour Down Under - Number 5:
I see your point, M4L, and I don't expect the NZRU to roll out the red carpet. But 50k? Come on.
Especially after the Rebels allowed Tyrel Lomax to leave his contract a year early to go to NZ to follow his dream of being an All Black. He hadn't played any pro rugby in NZ, and had actually been developed in the famous heartland you speak of - Melbourne.
But fundamentally this is all just a game and people should be allowed to represent their chosen country if at all possible.
Getting bogged down and demanding payments makes me feel a little dirty about the whole thing. I'm sure they can find another way to compensate the Crusaders/ Ta$man.
- $50k for a test player is chook feed
- Samu's chosen country was NZ until last week, because it suited his back pocket. NZ compensated him respectively so that he would remain NZ eligible. He wants out of that contract he pays or waits. NZR should have done the same with Shields.
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Oh re Lomax I reckon that's completely different to both Shields and Samu. Have the AB selectors chased him? Or was that a personal decision?
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Lomax has potential : he is a big man, a young Jamie MacIntosh. I don't see him in an AB jersey before 5 or 6 years though. Owen Franks is not that old for a prop, then there is Nepo Laulala, Ofa T, Michael Alaalatoa and Atu Moli who are all young THP.
The other THP with AB potential are JTA and ATM who are younger than Owen Franks. -
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