nottinghamtiger wrote:
MadDogg wrote:
Pretty certain James Segeyaro thought that too...and he ended up in the wilderness for 6 months.
Yeah, right! Once Leeds didn’t pay him, his contact became null and void and he signed for Cronulla.
That really is utter nonsense. Look at the quotes below. Leeds kept hold of him until they received a fair financial settlement as well as a replacement in Matt Parcell. Until that point he could go nowhere and do nothing.
“The situation with James Segeyaro has not changed, even though we have signed Matt Parcell,” Hetherington said. “James Segeyaro remains on our register and on the RFL’s register as well and he may well remain for the next two years.
He will only be off that at the expiry of his contract, [but] he remains on the transfer list and is available to anybody who makes an acceptable offer.”
Hetherington confirmed Rhinos are also pursuing a separate action against the Papua New Guinea international for breach of contract.
Segeyaro joined Rhinos on loan from Penrith Panthers in July and signed a long-term contract two months later, but declined to return from a break in Australia, saying he had been homesick during his time in Leeds.
The Rhinos chief said there is now no possibility of the two parties getting back together. “James himself, through his manager, cancelled his contract by writing to us and confirming he would not be fulfilling the remainder of his contract,” Hetherington stated.
