Aaron Woods has no back-up plan if Dogs are over salary cap

NRL haven't cleared any contracts that have been lodged this yr, there at hq waiting on cap drama to be finalised, best case, everyone gets what they wanted in club land, worst case, alot of players unemployed for a yr.

Sure he does, take less money and play to your worth. I do not understand the attraction of Woods. He was talked about being a potential captain for the Blues only 2 years ago but gets by getting his quota of tackles and hit ups and no more. Rarely any purpose or desire in his runs, hit it for 6 meters then turn your back for an extra 3 or 4. Solid prop don't get me wrong but often mentioned among the top front rowers going around and in my opinion he is not top 10

31 comments did I miss his managers name somewhere ? For 25% I still cant here it to Ask Tedy or JesusMoses I meant maybe woody can go to eels or chooks anywhere cept leichhardt concord campbelltown

Couldn't happen to a better manager if woods does end up suing his manager.

Hi Mad Magpie, Thats exactly where the players union should step in and oversee player contracts. By the way people who fail late in life don't normally sing ' i did it my way ' Its more like " i did it her way"

What can I say Bridy, although I agree with you sentiment, and that in my opinion the player managers are a breed of their own with toupees, Hawaiian shirts, and sucking on cheap cigars, leeching off the talent they keep in their stables and making money for nothing, I can’t see the manager to blame here. If in good faith the manager is negotiating a contract for his player, it should never be a part of his role to audit the club he’s been talking to see if they are under the cap. Seriously, NRL themselves actually struggle to get this done correctly. I just think a protective clause within the contract should be enough to ward off any problems for the players themselves.

Absolutely right BleakCity. The contract is between the Dodgy Dogs and Woods. Although I would venture to say that player manager's moving forward may now need to include a "Woodsy Clause" with chunky penalties in every contract that would cover the players in the event of any similar situations.

Sorry champ. Don’t know where you are getting your “facts” from, but I can’t find a single article that shows the NRL were saying 10 million is the golden number for the cap? Makes sense - Why else would the Dogs go to the NRL with hat in hand and tail between their legs asking for special consideration rather than kicking the door down and demanding compensation. The only organisation talking about 10 mil is the rotten crooked players association who seem to think they run the game and can dictate whatever they want. You’re right about the NRL being a joke, but even dumber is an organisation that is betting on a pie in the sky 10 mil figure thrown out there by an organisation who are still trying to learn how to tie their shoe laces and get rid of their Velcro sports shoes, when it’s very very obvious that this figure is unsustainable at this moment in time. Also, not sure what you do for a living, but if I were to expose my organisation to the risk that the Doggie administrators have now positioned their club in, let’s just say my career would definitely take a plummeting nose dive into becoming a busker on the street with my sons guitar and trying to win a few bob on Australia’s Got Talent singing – “I did it my way”. I’m not blaming the clubs, just this dopey blue and white one. If I were a player, coming in good faith, to negotiate a deal, I would think any offer presented and documented would have been ratified, vetted and filtered through a process of due diligence to ensure the club can pay it. As a player, I don’t give a single bar of chocolate about the salary cap situation of the club, I’m just interested in what they can offer. But lessons learnt, by Woods who’s got his fingers burnt, is that you need to get your manager to get it in writing that the club is under the salary cap and won’t have a problem registering your contract, otherwise significant penalty payments will need to be forth coming. As for grass roots, don’t even get me started on that old chestnut. Suffice to say that currently at my son’s school, he has the option of playing aerial ping pong (VFL Football) or 10 pin bowling. That’s right, no league. Those mugs from the VFL (refuse to call it its current name – Australian FL – As If) have really got their act together and are masterful at making people believe that joke of a game of theirs is better than league. Grass roots – what a joke.

watch Graham on the field, he doesn't have much left

He'll be paid, just can' tplay

Just because the NRL hasn't registered it doesn't mean it's not a contract the law doesn't work like that. Just ask Hopoate.

That's gold

Love it. Love to see a manager get sued. The players union should be able to advise the players on good managers bad managers.

When I saw "Aaron Woods" and "backup-plan" in the article's title I thought it was a critique on how he reverses into tackles!

The contract hasn't been registered with the NRL, so I assume this means it's not binding on either party if the NRL refuses to use the right rubber stamp. In other words, Woods can't sue anyone because there's no valid contract in place. If that's the case, Woods and more to the point, his manager, will have to find another option, which is the point of the article. The bloke who Woods might want to sue is his Manager, if the contract doesn't work out. The Manager is responsible for making sure the player gets the best deal and if he doesn't, through a manager's lack of due diligence ( the Manager should have been asking whether Canterbury could afford Woods under their salary cap and got something in writing to that effect), surely the manager's to blame.

I'm not sure about all you Bulldogs fans (Where is The Barry?), but if it was my club and I had to make a choice between Woods and Graham it would be a very easy decision. Woods isn't fit to shine Graham's boots I'm not sure what Graham is earning next year, (rumoured to be approx. $1m) but the only way I would be taking Woods over him, is if Woods was going to play for significantly less than Graham - and even then I would struggle with that decision.

If you honestly think that these guys were being recruited from this year then sadly you don't know much about the situation. Foran has been linked to the club many times over even before going across the Tasman for this season to play with the Warriors. All the clubs were told they would have $10million in cap space to play with for this season until early on this year to which it was probably that some of these contracts were already drawn up and being negotiated before handing over to be registered. The JOKE of a profession called the NRL decides to drop it by almost a million dollars then takes for ever to decide on the final outcome. You either have the money to give or you don't! Which one is it? They obviously have room to move because they expected some negotiations to take place but here we are almost the full season over and still no word and players ready to boycott major events if it doesn't at least go up to $9.5 million. Meanwhile Greenberg is talking about moving into WA with a team but they can't even manage where their money is going to the point where they were refused a loan and ran at a loss last year..... Easy to blame the clubs even though they had some time to adjust but to drop the cap by $1million dollars is a fair amount especially when there is really nothing to show for it when you consider grass roots has pretty much died out.

I imaigne there is a condition that the contract is registered by the NRL.

Woods wants to stay at the West/Tigers, he said so. many times. One other thing, that was very apparent in the interview on Sunday, sitting besides Ivan, you could see that he felt 'left out' when Ivan was talking about Benji blah blah' and the team. Its his fault, for jumping the gun and getting involved with the Taylor, Farah and Mosses saga, he has nobody else to blame. His best option from now on is, for him to start playing like a 'gun prop' and not like a 'teddy bear'.

Hi Birdy mate, how are you. No i have little intesrest in what Woods and the Bulldogs do, i really dont care. Just felt like leaving a smart @rse comment