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MANLY’S ongoing salary cap investigation could cost them a halves partner for Daly Cherry-Evans for a second time as the NRL awaits the club’s response to the breach notice issued early last month.
According to a report posted on the Wide World of Sports website Manly has a contract ready to offer current Newcastle half Trent Hodkinson but won’t be allowed to proceed until the NRL is satisfied that their salary cap dramas have been sufficiently resolved.
The Sea Eagles asked for and were granted an extension to the standard five-day appeal process after the breach notice was issued on December 11 and have until the end of January to file their submission.
Until that happens and the NRL Integrity Unit is able to complete its investigation it is unlikely any new contracts will be registered, putting not only the Hodkinson deal but also the one trumpeted to bring former Dragon Joel Thompson to the club in some doubt.
Despite the Sea Eagles announcing prior to Christmas the signing of Thompson on a two-year deal the contract has not yet been submitted to the NRL and will likely not be approved until the club can prove it will be salary cap compliant for the 2018 season.
The NRL Integrity Unit is not due to reconvene until mid-January but an NRL spokesman told foxsports.com.au that Manly’s response to the breach notice is not expected to be received at NRL headquarters until just before the deadline.
Having released Blake Green so that he could take up a three-year deal with the Warriors and missed out on the signature of Mitchell Pearce, the Sea Eagles are still searching for an experienced half to play alongside Cherry-Evans in 2018.
Hodkinson was the 2010 NRL Rookie of the Year at Manly before joining the Bulldogs on a rich three-year deal at the end of the season but will struggle to break into the Knights’ starting 17 in 2018 following the arrival of both Mitchell Pearce and Connor Watson from the Roosters.
It leaves Hodkinson without an NRL team to play in and Manly a spot on their roster that needs filling but bringing the two parties together could be a convoluted and potentially drawn-out process.
In recent years Hodkinson’s career had been plagued by knee injuries and midway through the 2017 season the Newcastle captain suffered the ignominy of being dropped to the Intrust Super Premiership for more than two months.
He returned to play a key role as the side won three games on the trot late in the year but the development of Brock Lamb and acquisitions of Pearce and Watson make him excess to Newcastle’s requirements with a year to run on his contract.
Renowned for his work within the community at the Sea Eagles, Bulldogs and now Knights, Hodkinson was responsible for the most heart-wrenching story of 2017 when he escorted a terminally ill teenager to her formal in Kurri Kurri.
Sadly, Hannah Rye passed away just a month later, Hodkinson writing her name on his wrist strapping as a final tribute.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...s/news-story/0a4d316b4682ee80ea6a975f837a1870
MANLY’S ongoing salary cap investigation could cost them a halves partner for Daly Cherry-Evans for a second time as the NRL awaits the club’s response to the breach notice issued early last month.
According to a report posted on the Wide World of Sports website Manly has a contract ready to offer current Newcastle half Trent Hodkinson but won’t be allowed to proceed until the NRL is satisfied that their salary cap dramas have been sufficiently resolved.
The Sea Eagles asked for and were granted an extension to the standard five-day appeal process after the breach notice was issued on December 11 and have until the end of January to file their submission.
Until that happens and the NRL Integrity Unit is able to complete its investigation it is unlikely any new contracts will be registered, putting not only the Hodkinson deal but also the one trumpeted to bring former Dragon Joel Thompson to the club in some doubt.
Despite the Sea Eagles announcing prior to Christmas the signing of Thompson on a two-year deal the contract has not yet been submitted to the NRL and will likely not be approved until the club can prove it will be salary cap compliant for the 2018 season.
The NRL Integrity Unit is not due to reconvene until mid-January but an NRL spokesman told foxsports.com.au that Manly’s response to the breach notice is not expected to be received at NRL headquarters until just before the deadline.
Having released Blake Green so that he could take up a three-year deal with the Warriors and missed out on the signature of Mitchell Pearce, the Sea Eagles are still searching for an experienced half to play alongside Cherry-Evans in 2018.
Hodkinson was the 2010 NRL Rookie of the Year at Manly before joining the Bulldogs on a rich three-year deal at the end of the season but will struggle to break into the Knights’ starting 17 in 2018 following the arrival of both Mitchell Pearce and Connor Watson from the Roosters.
It leaves Hodkinson without an NRL team to play in and Manly a spot on their roster that needs filling but bringing the two parties together could be a convoluted and potentially drawn-out process.
In recent years Hodkinson’s career had been plagued by knee injuries and midway through the 2017 season the Newcastle captain suffered the ignominy of being dropped to the Intrust Super Premiership for more than two months.
He returned to play a key role as the side won three games on the trot late in the year but the development of Brock Lamb and acquisitions of Pearce and Watson make him excess to Newcastle’s requirements with a year to run on his contract.
Renowned for his work within the community at the Sea Eagles, Bulldogs and now Knights, Hodkinson was responsible for the most heart-wrenching story of 2017 when he escorted a terminally ill teenager to her formal in Kurri Kurri.
Sadly, Hannah Rye passed away just a month later, Hodkinson writing her name on his wrist strapping as a final tribute.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...s/news-story/0a4d316b4682ee80ea6a975f837a1870
