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Getting lots of media airplay re his covid dinner. Reckon we may have seen his last game for the Sharks.

Would have liked to have seen him play a few more games for us. Will miss the schlomping noise of his body being stretched into weird shapes as he refuses to die with the ball close to our line.
 

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$25k fine is a pretty big whack.

It is, I assume they’ve factored his wage in because a bloke on min gets wrecked by that.
Does feel like if the NRL says don’t go to any pubs/cafe etc then it’s pretty obvious the correct move is not to go to any. Thought he was past dumb stuff like that
 

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Him or the club?

Him. There is a statement on NRL website.

Where this differs from the Bulldogs players is that it states the Sharks made fully informed Dugan of the requirements.
 
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Him. There is a statement on NRL website.

Where this differs from the Bulldogs players is that it states the Sharks made fully informed Dugan of the requirements.

Thank l #%#% for that, it seems like forever our club dropped the ball with governance on anything & everything for a few years, here’s hoping that’s a thing of the past.
 

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theres going to be more breaches, interesting to see if they keep up the level of fines
 

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theres going to be more breaches, interesting to see if they keep up the level of fines

Hope so. It will only take one idiot who gets infected and pass it on to shut down the game.

If it was up to me I would ban for rest of the season anyone who deliberately breaches NRL lock down protocols.
 

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Hope so. It will only take one idiot who gets infected and pass it on to shut down the game.

If it was up to me I would ban for rest of the season anyone who deliberately breaches NRL lock down protocols.
agree. Stupid and selfish.
 

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Sharks welfare manager Amanda King has been in daily contact with Dugan this week but Hannay revealed leading into Sunday’s match against Brisbane that he had not heard from the veteran centre or attempted to speak with him.

"Josh is in isolation and we haven’t had any contact with Josh since the incident," Hannay said.

"What I will say is that as a club we are extremely disappointed with those actions.

That's from the NRL site.

He's done with us, can't see him playing again.
 
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That's from the NRL site.

He's done with us, can't see him playing again.

It was a dumb move.
The club and NRL advised all players what they can and can not do.
Unfortunately it looks like Dugan spat the dummy about his playing situation and decided to raise his middle finger up at the club.
Shame way to finish off his NRL career. Maybe (probably/ hopefully) a SL team will pick him up.
He doesn’t deserve to end like that!
 

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Any chance this is reason enough to terminate a contact?

Probably not
I guess club could also fine him and see if that irritates him enough he asks to leave or negotiate out of his deal. Do we know how long he's not allowed to play for as a result of this indiscretion?

Bit of a shame for him really, split with wife, dropped from NRL, no apparent interest from other clubs, now this and big fine. Probably doing it pretty tough (although a lot of that circumstance definitely of his own doing)
 

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Hannay didn't miss him in his comments either. Admitted to not even speaking to him since all this happened.
 
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