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Canberra Raider’s star Jack Wighton’s bombshell decision to leave the nation’s capital for the South Sydney Rabbitohs next year has sparked anger from his current club’s salwarts.
Wighton has made the decision to move his family to the Big Smoke for a four year deal, turning down lucrative offers from the Raiders and other clubs and taking close to a $1 million pay cut in the hopes of winning a rugby league premiership with the bunnies.
However, the details of the deal coming under heavy scrutiny and hysterical interrogation from NRL journalists who are close friends with Raiders coach, Ricky Stuart.
Stuart has made attempts to hide the fact that mid-season announcement has left a sour taste in the mouth, as former Raiders captain-turned-lifelong-coach grapples to understand why in the fuck anyone would ever want relocate away from the Tuscan-like plains of Canberra.
Ricky’s close mate and media attack dog, Paul Kent, has been quick to call out the deal and question whether it will be ticked off by the salary cap auditor, because Kenty’s got a hunch that one of the most well-run clubs in the NRL doesn’t do their homework
“The NRL salary cap auditors will look at it, and they’ll need to look at it. We all know the stories of different clubs where these sorts of things go on and this is highly unusual, he’s taken a pay cut to leave a club.” said Kent.
With the Canberra Raiders premiership window well and truly closing, the idea that a top-level NRL srtar would want to focus on his own family and footballing legacy – rather than spend the rest of his live trucking nut up the centre of a below-zero footy field, is completely lost on the outraged old codgers.
The drama continued Wednesday, Stuart let rip at the ‘unfair’ system and blasted the process with Wighton, who still has to finish the 2023 season for the Raiders fans and his teammates.
“I want to reassure you all that the club did everything possible to keep Jack at the Raiders and we wanted nothing more than to see him reach 300 games and become a one-club player” said Ricky, who had been under the impression that Wighton might want to spend his entire life in gorgeous medium-sized rural city made up of public servants, and nowhere to swim.
