Quote A RFL Operational Rules Tribunal has today ruled that Hull FC are not entitled to compensation from Leeds Rhinos for player Luke Briscoe.'" www.therhinos.co.uk/news/19173.php what a load of , Cheers Agar, Uncle Kath And Jimbo

Quote A RFL Operational Rules Tribunal has today ruled that Hull FC are not entitled to compensation from Leeds Rhinos for player Luke Briscoe.'" www.therhinos.co.uk/news/19173.php what a load of , Cheers Agar, Uncle Kath And Jimbo

Why is it rubbish?

However the Tribunal determined that under Operational Rule C1:3:12(a) Hull FC had relinquished their entitlement to compensation because the terms of the new contract they had offered Briscoe were less favourable than his previous

Says it all really, didn't AP know this? It's a pretty standard rule.

awaits the whords of whinos flooding this thread....typical penny pinching from our last board!!

Wasn't AP in charge before his contract ended?

or done deliberately so they could take him from under our noses.
Operational rules shouldn't have allowed Uncle Kaff to own a club when hubby was a CEO of another, conflict of interests.

agree but when gary hetherington says "jump" to the rfl, they say "how high!"

you have to wonder who really is in charge!

Why would you offer a promising player like L Briscoe a lower contract - still seems slightly dodgy to me

Contract was offered in September, hadn't Queen Kath jumped the sinking ship by then?

And of course Gary pulls all the strings at RFL. These qualified solicitors and barristers they use there to look over these types of issues are just purely there for ornament.

www.hullfc.com/newsarticle.aspx?n=21101

www.hullfc.com/newsarticle.aspx?n=21101

Hetherington 1 Pearson 0.

Don't mess with The Sleeve

He said, “The result of this morning’s RFL tribunal on Luke Briscoe has obviously not come as a surprise to us at Hull FC as we fully expected this predictable outcome despite Luke being presented with three formal contract offers.

If they were improved offers then why doesn't AP take the matter higher?

Reading his response, i still dont think he is understanding the rule. You can make a player 1000 offers but if none match or exceed his current deal then he can walk away for nothing.
The only criticism that can be levelled at the RFL in this instance is that they just didnt inform Pearson of this rule back in september so that he didnt have to end up making a wally of himself and waste everybodys time at the tribunal.

You think he's bitter?

Embarrassing statement that.

Regardless of Pearsons feelings on the RFL and on how they have ben run, it has sod all to do with the independant panel which judged this case or their judgement of it,

He took the case up expecting to lose it, he knew why he was expected to lose it, he knew the fairly clear, concise and unambigious, longstanding rule which meant he was likely to lose the seems to have hit out at all and sundry at the RFL for things going how he thought they would. Its pretty pathetic

The rules in football as well as league, I'd be amazed if he didn't know it although it does read like that.

Now that's a big statement to be making. Hope he's confident of taking such a stance, as it will make a few enemies.

Is this public?

You got his office bugged, or are you just a mindreader?

I didnt need to.

He said so in his statement

[iThe result of this morning’s RFL tribunal on Luke Briscoe has obviously not come as a surprise to us at Hull FC as we fully expected this predictable outcome[/i

Pearson is @$#*ing brilliant

pearson is spot on regarding the rfl, no money sponsorship when clubs need money is a poor decision from the governing body!

I like his statement, the old board fooked over the club on this one, even if they did it in a legal way.

There is a good chance that Briscoe would have made his first team debut at Hull so far this year, not sure if he even starts at Leeds under 20's.

"I look forward to my imminent meeting with the interim Chairman of the Rugby Football League, Mr Maurice Watkin, and I hope that I can add some specific sports management experience..."

Little fish leaves big pond and finds he is now little fish in smaller pond. Sheer arrogance from AP.