Four NRL agents have been handed bans with some of the best Super League talents possibly set to be impacted.

A statement from the NRL confirmed that four player agents had been found guilty of breaches and handed bans and fines. Mario Tartak has been handed the largest of those punishments with the agent suspended for 12 months and fined $25,000.

Matthew Desira and Chris Orr have both been banned for six months and handed $10,000 fines, whilst Nash Dawson has been banned for nine months with a £15,000 fine handed out.

As such, all four men will be unable to do deals on behalf of their clients for the period for which they are banned and that looks set to have a knock-on effect for some of the top Super League stars, who are thought to be represented by the suspended agents.

One of those is off-contract Leeds Rhinos star Brodie Croft, who is listed as a client on Chris Orr’s website.

Leeds Rhinos star one of several Super League players to see agent suspended

Orr is one of the four agents to be handed the lightest ban at just six months but it is still significant as it means that he cannot conduct any new contract talks on behalf of Croft until that ban is over.

Croft is without a deals beyond the end of the 2026 season so negotiations of new contracts or moves elsewhere are crucial right now.

As well as Croft, other Super League stars such as Cade Cust, Sam Stone, Jai Whitbread, Aaron Pene and Jed Cartwright are listed as clients on Orr’s website, with the latter two also off-contract.

For the likes of Croft, Pene and Cartwright, they’re now faced with a predicament of either waiting until Orr’s suspension is over, which would be mid-season, before they negotiate a new deal.

Or they may seek to either find a new agent or represent themselves in a bid to sign a new deal or join a new club. Leeds’ Croft is one of those who has regularly been linked with a move back to the NRL and with Perth Bears arriving for 2027, he’s a possible target.

Per the NRL’s statement, Orr and Dawson had a “physical altercation” in 2024 with both men alleged to have failed to co-operate with the NRL Integrity Unity. It’s unclear as to why Orr received a lesser punishment.

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