The NRL is wanting into Matt Lodge’s contract with the Sea Eagles after it was revealed the controversial ahead signed a fundamental prepare and trial contract.
Lodge and the Roosters parted methods earlier final month with the membership paying out the rest of his $600,000 a season deal.
Manly and coach Anthony Seibold shortly swooped on him in a bid to bolster their push to make the finals.
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The Daily Telegraph’s David Riccio revealed the main points of his contract and raised issues it was setting a harmful precedent.
“It’s slightly more than $1000,” he mentioned on NRL360
“I have concerns when you sign a player valued at around $600,000 at his previous club and then comes into another club with seven or eight weeks left in the season and signs for a train and trial level of contract.
“I don’t see how it’s right that you can pick up a player of $600,000 value and pay him much less to help you get to the finals.”
Riccio revealed the NRL was able to step in.
“If he’s selected this weekend and continues to play for the Manly Sea Eagles there will be a value placed on Lodge that has salary cap implications going forward.”
Lodge performed NSW Cup on the weekend and has been named on the bench to make his membership debut towards the Sharks.
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Seibold, who has beforehand labored with Lodge at two golf equipment, mentioned the controversial participant has moved on the one who was arrested in New York eight years in the past after he compelled his method into an residence and assaulted somebody throughout his drunken rampage.
“It was almost eight years ago,” he mentioned earlier this month.
“Everybody in life has made mistakes and had challenges. It was a big mistake and he’s spoken a number of times about it, so I’m not sure he needs to keep apologising about it.
“I know he’s made a number of changes to his lifestyle.
“He’s got a lovely partner and three little ones, so he’s a father and he’s just recently completed a degree at university, so he’s done a lot of things off the field that have given him a lot of growth as a person.
“He’s had his challenges throughout his career, but he brings competition for spots, and I don’t shy away from that. We shouldn’t have people who are comfortable thinking ‘that’s my jersey every single week’. We want competition for spots.”
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