A Canterbury Bulldogs top-30 participant walked out of coaching final month after reportedly being pressured to wrestle greater than 12 teammates as ‘punishment’ for turning up late.
The news was first reported by The Daily Telegraph, which wrote the participant believed he was not late, and subsequently left coaching after changing into upset on the incident.
The report states that he intends to not return to the membership regardless of being contracted for 2024, with the Bulldogs and the gamers union now each investigating the matter.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported the participant, who is just not named because of the sensitivity of the matter and his wellbeing, requested for day without work the next week for private causes and has not returned to coaching.
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Rugby League Players Association CEO Clint Newtown was quoted by the Telegraph saying: “The RLPA is aware of a matter and we will continue working with the player and his representatives to address it. Once we have completed that process, we will then contact club officials.
“We must stress that matters of this nature are incredibly private and confidentiality should be respected.”
Punishments corresponding to fines are widespread within the NRL for gamers rule-breaking, with the Telegraph stating that the participant in query was subjected to an prolonged wrestling session as punishment for the reason that crew was doing wrestling drills on the time.
The report additionally states one other participant confronted the identical penalty the next week after reporting to coaching late.
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Meanwhile, a 3rd Bulldogs participant – Braidon Burns – couldn’t full a coaching session final week as a consequence of a hamstring criticism. The Telegraph studies Burns and his agent Allan Gainey met with Bulldogs common supervisor Phil Gould on Tuesday to debate considerations he had over coaching, whereas the Herald studies the participant returned to coaching on Tuesday.
It comes within the wake of claims that as much as eight gamers are sad with the coaching load on the membership underneath coach Cameron Ciraldo.
The Sydney Morning Herald this week revealed a textual content message had been despatched round claiming gamers had voiced considerations, particularly round necessities on being out there to coach from 8am to five.30pm.
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