{"id":360336,"date":"2025-12-20T11:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T11:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/360336\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T11:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T11:37:08","slug":"agent-of-leeds-rhinos-hull-fc-stars-handed-lengthy-nrl-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/360336\/","title":{"rendered":"Agent of Leeds Rhinos, Hull FC stars handed lengthy NRL ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four NRL agents \u2013 including one that looks after some of Super League\u2019s biggest stars \u2013 have been handed lengthy bans for a variety of offences that could impact the future of their clients.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nash Dawson, Chris Orr, Mario Tartak and Matt Desira will be unable to do deals on behalf of their clients for months, with the quartet handed suspensions ranging in length, but all of which are severe.<\/p>\n<p>Tartak will be banned for 12 months after he, according to the NRL, \u201ccommunicated with an underage player without a parent and\/or legal guardian being present\u201d. Desira is unable to work for six months after \u201cnon-reporting and dishonesty following police charges and court proceedings\u201d which were brought against him. He has been fined $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Dawson and Orr, however, have both been suspended after an altercation between the pair at a schools championship game in 2024. It was also alleged that both failed to co-operate with the NRL\u2019s Integrity Unit in the investigation, too.<\/p>\n<p>Want more Love Rugby League? Add us as a <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=loverugbyleague.com\" target=\"_blank\">preferred source on Google<\/a> and ensure you never miss our exclusives and breaking news!<\/p>\n<p>Orr looks after a handful of Super League\u2019s biggest names. His website counts the likes of Leeds Rhinos star half-back Brodie Croft and Hull FC\u2019s Cade Cust among his clients.<\/p>\n<p>New Hull half-back Jake Arthur is also listed as a client, but so is his father, Leeds Rhinos coach Brad Arthur. However, the Australian confirmed late last year that he had parted company with Orr, his long-time manager, with a preference to instead conduct his own deals without representation.<\/p>\n<p>Hull KR forward Jai Whitbread and St Helens back-rower Shane Wright are also listed among Orr\u2019s clients, and Dawson manages arguably the biggest name in the game at present: Brisbane Broncos and Australia superstar Reece Walsh.<\/p>\n<p>The likes of Cust and Croft are both off-contract at the end of 2026, which presents them with a problem as their manager \u2013 Orr \u2013 is unable to conduct any business during his period of suspension. That would mean they would either have to find a new agent, do their own deals or wait for Orr\u2019s ban to end before signing a deal for 2027 and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four NRL agents \u2013 including one that looks after some of Super League\u2019s biggest stars \u2013 have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-360336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}