No NRL club prepared to take risk
Renegade rugby union player Quade Cooper has been dealt a dose of reality, with every NRL club slamming the door on a code switch.
Cooper has been labelled a mercenary and high maintenance after walking away from his contract negotiations with the Australian Rugby Union.
And no NRL club is prepared to take a risk on the former Queensland Reds playmaker, with all 16 clubs contacted by The Sunday Telegraph issuing an emphatic “no”.
Despite the New Zealand Warriors having ample room to accommodate Cooper, new coach Matthew Elliott branded him too much of a risk.
It was a similar story at every other rugby league club.
From premiers Melbourne Storm to wooden-spooners the Parramatta Eels, no club was prepared to gamble on what Cooper might be able to bring to the table.
Read more at the Daily Telegraph
He would make Sandough look like a top defender
@Hitman
That is not nice, but, sadly true.
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Should go back to tokaroa bro
I don’t think that his timing is very good, most clubs have started preseason training, firmed up their contracts and don’t need to risk someone that has been making headlines due to a public dispute.
how much is he asking?
because if its a sum anywhere near sbw then i would say no too.
@ Aaron Lucas.
Mate it’s better to keep your mouth shout rather than open it and prove to everyone just how stupid u really are. Just ask your mate Ihatewingeingparrafan.
Tank…. you need to not fuel these clowns that only have one ambition of rubishing another mans club – let it go…
if quade signs with an nrl club i’d say he’d probably sign with the dragons or the broncos, or maybe even the warriors but i’d say that would be more unlikely
The broncos don’t want him, already got plenty of halves and fullback options, the dragons too but not as much, yes the warriors could use him but as you said, it’s unlikely. He was booed throughout the World Cup by the kiwis, I doubt they would want him playing for them. My guess is that if he joined an nrl club, it would be the bulldogs in 2014, (if they don’t sign JT, and if they do sign JT then he will go to the cowboys) after a year of Japanese or French rugby.
No one in the nrl is interested in quade cooper, what a load of poo poo..!
im sure if his resignation was 3-4 months ago there would be some contenders, His defence is not great but no one can argue that he doesnt have some ability as a play maker… A good coach would see how to get value for money from QC as long as he doesnt think he is $BW material on the same pay packet….
drags should give him a run,they nead someone and if jamie goes which i think he will soon
He will stay in rugby trust me.
@pedro the saint.
Mate your probably right, but they really are annoying not to mention stupid, idiotic and complete imbeciles. Even as a dogs supporter I thought blueboys post were funny at first, then even he became annoying continually having a go at the dragons.
I think st.georege are the only club in the position to give him the contract his after cause he to is managed by Khoder Nasser I’m sure he will go to boxing fight a couple of no bodies I 2013 get knocked out by a reasonable fighter than come to league with either the dragons or parramatta.watch this space…
I guess at the end of the day Stg could sit back, wait for QC to cop a couple to the head and have him join mid season when he is discounted because he cant remember his name – Kade, Colin, Wade – i was a wallaby>??? WTF!!
Hey Campbell why would the Warriors want him?they dont want a arrogant arsehole who cant tackle.no one will want him he just wants to be like his girlfriend SBW