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    There appears to be some confusion over James O'Connor's contract at the Reds.
    JOC has signed a two year deal at the Reds, however, Toulon boss, Mourad Boudjellal has said O'Connor has signed a three year deal with Toulon with the provision of a six month leave to play Super Rugby and represent Australia at the World Cup.
    As of yet, the Reds are yet to comment on the situation, but it will be interesting to see how this plays out..

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    The SMH are reporting the story as follows:

    http://m.smh.com.au/rugby-union/unio...02-10bipq.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by travelling_gerry View Post
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    There appears to be some confusion over James O'Connor's contract at the Reds.
    JOC has signed a two year deal at the Reds, however, Toulon boss, Mourad Boudjellal has said O'Connor has signed a three year deal with Toulon with the provision of a six month leave to play Super Rugby and represent Australia at the World Cup.
    As of yet, the Reds are yet to comment on the situation, but it will be interesting to see how this plays out..
    The SMH article seems to say that Carmichael is refusing to comment, which - if true - suggests there is some credibility to the story.

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    My mail from Queensland (and I am not surprised at all) is that although the ARU have made no financial inducement to JOC, they did tell QRU that JOC would be playing there in 2015 and the QRU basically had no say in it. Perhaps it was a "you pay for JOC and we'll prop up the Hunt deal" so they could keep JOC at arms length. Either way there has been deals done at ARU level which are not standard procedure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by travelling_gerry View Post
    JOC has signed a two year deal at the Reds, however, Toulon boss, Mourad Boudjellal has said O'Connor has signed a three year deal with Toulon with the provision of a six month leave to play Super Rugby and represent Australia at the World Cup.
    Yeah, but who do you believe?
    James O'Connor?
    The Queensland Reds?
    The ARU?
    Mourad Boudjellal?

    They are all as bad as one another!

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    Unnamed Sauces, the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

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    Quote Originally Posted by GIGS20 View Post
    Yeah, but who do you believe?
    James O'Connor?
    The Queensland Reds?
    The ARU?
    Mourad Boudjellal?

    They are all as bad as one another!
    Is this like one of those surveys where you rank them in order?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jargan83 View Post
    Is this like one of those surveys where you rank them in order?
    OMG have fun with that!

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    C'mon the

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    "deals done at ARU level which are not standard procedure" - who'd a thunk it?!

    ARU = Artful R Us??

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    O'Connor to honour contract: Reds

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    September 3, 2014, 3:09 pm


    Queensland Reds chief executive Jim Carmichael says James O'Connor will honour his Super Rugby contract and stay beyond the 2015 World Cup despite conflicting overseas reports.

    Just days after the Reds confirmed O'Connor had signed a two-year contract from 2015, newspapers claimed the 44-Test Wallaby would return to his current French club Toulon following next year's World Cup - just six months into his new Super Rugby deal.

    French reports claimed O'Connor would leave Australia after the 2015 World Cup in Britain to honour a clause in a signed three-year contract with the Toulon club.

    But Carmichael said on Wednesday he could not see any reason O'Connor would not be at the Reds for the 2015 and 2016 Super Rugby seasons.

    "In the interest of all parties, I'm not going to discuss the detail of any players' contract," he said.

    "However, I'm completely satisfied that the agreement we have set is in the best interests of the QRU, the Reds, Australian Rugby and James O'Connor.

    "My priority now is to give James the best opportunity to achieve our agreed objectives when he joins the Reds, so I hope that this is the last time I will need to clarify our position."

    The Reds confirmed rugby's worst kept secret when they unveiled O'Connor and code hopper Karmichael Hunt as their new recruits last Friday.

    However, a question mark quickly emerged over O'Connor's future after Toulon president Mourad Boudjellal told French newspapers that he expected O'Connor back after the World Cup and to play another two seasons.

    "We always said James O'Connor had signed for three years at Toulon with a possible six months absence during the season to be able to play in the World Cup," he told French newspaper Midi Olympique's website www.rugbyrama.fr.

    "So we respect what has been signed ... he is committed for two years after the Cup."

    Adding further confusion, Boudjellal told Var Matin newspaper: "There is no clause or provision for him to stay in Australia.

    "If he leaves, he comes back. That's certain."

    https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sp...contract-reds/

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    Despite all this speculation, one thing is very obvious to me......

    He's still a farkin TOOL!

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    Great game, Fucken battled right through to the 80!

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    "our agreed objectives."

    As fulv would say, qed....

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    His contract probs has a clause saying "if I don't get selected for the Wallabies squad, I reserve the right to break this contract and return to Toulon, or not, depending on how I feel at the time and how much I need to raise my profile and who offers the best inducements and haircuts and whatever else I think of at the time."

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