The November 1 verdict on all 12 off-contract fullbacks<\/a><\/p>\nNews Corp journalist Peter Badel said on a special NRL 360 edition on Wednesday that Young\u2019s dealings with Canberra were shockingly bad.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the dumbest contractual decision I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d Badel said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has been given $1.1 million a year for four years, for a back-rower from his existing club.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHudson Young is a very, very good player, he\u2019s elite, he\u2019s a rep player, no doubt about it. But the problem is the only other real competitive threat to the Raiders was PNG with their tax-free dollars. But my mail is he doesn\u2019t really want to go and live in PNG. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo if he doesn\u2019t really want to go there, that negates them as a threat. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhich Australian club is (now) going to pay him $1.1 million?\u201d <\/p>\n
The NRL has rated Young\u2019s notional value at $1 million per season, but the Chiefs also won\u2019t budge from their $900,000 offer.<\/p>\n
It leaves Young in limbo because he can only go to a rival club if they offer him at least $1 million a season.<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll turn 29 next year and is on the long road to recovery from an Achillies injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the Raiders in the end said, \u2018we\u2019re doing the best we can\u2019 and they pulled the deal, so now I don\u2019t know where he goes,\u201d Badel said.<\/p>\n
NRL 360 host Briath Anasta suggested that Young may want out of Canberra because he doesn\u2019t think the current squad can win a premiership.<\/p>\n
Minichello says Walker could stay | 01:18<\/p>\n
Retired rugby league reporter Phil Rothfield felt Young should have repaid Raiders coach Ricky Stuart after he went into bat for him a number of times early in his career when suspended, once for a horrible act. <\/p>\n
\u201cEvery single contract breakdown story is different. I\u2019m not dirty necessarily on the money because I think he can make a lot more in PNG. What I\u2019m dirty about is lack of loyalty,\u201d Rothfield said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Hudson Young was twice in strife over the (eye) gouging issue, he had early in his career, and mind you, he\u2019s become a much better person since, I had Ricky Stuart on the phone saying \u2018look after the kid, don\u2019t go heavy, he\u2019s just moved from Newcastle, he\u2019s working with disadvantaged kids\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cRicky not only did that for him to become a better off-field human being, Ricky, in my opinion, also developed him from a very, very good second row forward to an Origin second rower and to an Australian Kangaroo second rower.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rothfield also revealed, to back up Anasta\u2019s theory about Young not rating the Raiders squad, that there was a little bit of mail around Origin camp that he \u201cwasn\u2019t talking too complimentary about Canberra and their lack of middle forwards\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hudson Young\u2019s contract negotiations involving Canberra and the PNG Chiefs have been described as the \u201cdumbest\u201d one leading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-643577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}