Why should he have done it at the end of the season?
He was intending on playing and this offer wasn't on the table
I don't blame him and wish him all the best
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and on face value, it is a great offer regardless of whether he makes it to the NFL.
How would you feel if Dusty did the same thing to join Rugby?
The stakes are lower but the principle holds Rhys he has walked out on a contract.
If Dusty did that I'd be amazed more than anything but I'd wish him all the best.
We don't own people just because they sign a contract to play footy with us. All that contract does is bind the player to a particular AFL club for a certain period of time at a certain rate of pay. I can't see where it precludes them from pursuing interests outside football, even if that means they no longer play football for us.
Griff has retired, the club has accepted that decision and the contract presumably is voided. The club could enforce that contract if they wanted to. We could keep him on our list to prevent him playing football with another club if we thought that served a purpose.
If the moral angle concerns you, then yes, he has technically made an agreement that he will no longer honour. But he made that agreement in good faith and at the time intended to honour it. Circumstances change, and the club has accepted that. It isn't like he is trying to get out of the contract because Collingwood or Gold Coast have offered him more money. If we were really concerned about it, we could take legal action, but we won't because what he has done isn't unreasonable.