Here in lies a fairly interesting issue for DCE and yes, it is a large issue for HIM.
Is he one hundred percent confident that his management team OR agents of said team DID NOT receive any correspondence regarding the discussions pertaining to his request for an early release OR any narrative forming the basis of discussions about HIS position moving forward with the Club?
Secondly, is he willing to come forward to provide evidence himself that the request, as we have been led to believe, was so he could return to QLD however, at the same time, a certain club had just announced a deal for one year for a player that would, coincidentally, expire at the same time as when he would "finish up" at Manly?
Now, I'm a fairly simple person however, if during this period of time, representations were made to his management team of the likelihood that IF he were to be given a contract, it would be "X" dollars and he wasn't happy with those "preliminary discussions", he has every right to tell the Club to "stick it" and quite possibly did so by telling them that he was going to retire or "go overseas".
Things with DCE may have been going south for a long while, and over the last week, his camp have been doing their very best to set the agenda on where they would like this story to travel.
In fact, towards the end of last week and into the weekend, it was becoming a 50/50 story with the Club presenting their "case" among the way.
The narrative was beginning to come out that BOTH parties were somewhat "loose" with the entire saga and then on Sunday night, he couldn't help himself and he needed to produce the halo to ensure that he is front and centre again, and it's the Club that is the one, actually no, "someone", is conducting a smear campaign against him.
He is an exceptionally smart person, in so far as he won't publically name the person or persons knowing full well he can use the conduit (like all figures in the game do) of the to media with its large legal teams to do his bidding for him, should the need arise (in then making any statements or claims about people).
This now leads me to a very interesting news article written by Weidler; do we all remember when, for the first time in recorded history, the NRL were going to value DCE at something ridiculous like $450,000 (factoring in the reduction for tenure at one Club)?
If the Club took this amount and then decided to offer him what they considered to be a financially responsible amount as part of a negotiation (oh wait, they never happened), is that a slap in the face to DCE?
Could it be, that, if this were to be the case and he was to sign for another Club for more than two-times that valuation, this could this be construed as DCE being money-hungry?
Or would that be a smear campaign in asking such a valid question?
Let's be very honest here it is becoming quite apparent that the DCE camp and the media know full well that information pertaining to this whole matter can not be released into the public domain as all discussions held, verbal (contemporaneous notes and record of discussions between parties serve a very important purpose in matters like this) or written correspondence would be done under a certain degree of confidence between the parties.
One last thing, do you believe it would serve the Club, the team and us, as fans, any benefit for the Club to release any correspondence possibly protected under confidence?
Wouldn't that be the ultimate recipe for disaster and derail our season?
Why would anyone proceed on the basis that requesting such information could have such a detrimental effect on the playing group.
Or could there be, as has been throughout this entire saga, an ulterior motive?
It's not unlike any of the parties to say one thing in public, yet perform completely different in private, is it 🤔.
