What’s the problem with Robbie Farah’s Tigers arrangement?

Post-career arrangements between clubs and players must be declared and approved by the NRL, otherwise they go on the salary cap.The agreement between Farah and the club which was signed in September 2016 only recently became apparent to the NRL. The NRL said they made enquiries and looked into the contract.“We have obtained documents which showed the club entered an agreement to pay Robbie Farah to act as an ambassador at the club when he retired from playing,” Greenberg said.“The games rules are very, very clear on these arrangements. Any commitment to make such a payment should have been disclosed and it should have been included in the salary cap.“The club failed to do this. The club then compounded its conduct by submitting a misleading application to the NRL in relation to the
salary cap treatment of money paid to Robbie when he left the club.“We feel like the club and Justin have misled the NRL around this ambassador agreement and we have to provide consistent sanctions on individuals and clubs throughout. We’ve done that through other clubs and we have to do it again.” NRL chief operating officer Nick Weeks said there was a provision in the rules which enabled clubs to have money excluded from the salary cap where players were moved on due to “reputational reasons”.“When Robbie left, the club paid him money that he was owed under his contract and they aproached us to exclude some of those payments on the basis he was a destablising influence on the club,” Weeks said.“What they didn’t disclose when they made that application was the fact the club had earlier entered into ambassador agreement to bring him back.”Greenberg stressed there is no suggestion that Farah has done anything wrong.