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I see Slim's mate Rita has had her 2c now too: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-time-for-rugby-heads-to-roll-over-folau-saga/news-story/0e805364a8c7d3fa0f26badc8fa091f0

More likely less than the expected payout plus estimated intangible cost to the game of the court proceedings plus legal fees

It's going to happen. Just a matter of time. We get to live it all out again then!

A full payout of a long-term contract has to be a win of sorts. He can essentially get paid exorbitant amounts for preaching for a few years if he wants. Or if he decides to go back to footy, he'd be long odds on to find a high paying gig somewhere and just have the extra millions for free. I'm...

From an employer perspective, the next challenge is how to word a contract that allows dismissal in similar circumstances without having to pay severance. I assume the proposed legislation is designed to prevent that, at least in this context. It's going to be an interesting space to watch...

The contract was $5.7M right? And already a bunch of that would have been paid before the saga. If they've paid out the remainder, roughly half of $8M is probably pretty close to the mark. Although it is still reading more like a guess than a leak.

How long did the contract have left to run? At worst, it's pretty amazing severance pay.

He'll manage to stay in the public eye for a while yet. Undisclosed settlement will keep people busy for a while. Then any move he makes, whether it be preaching or footy contract chat, will be followed by the media like a hawk, and when he's not doing enough to maintain interest, they'll...

Listening to his statement, I got the impression he was going to hang up the boots and focus on preaching. Who knows. I imagine he'd still get some outlandish amount wherever he ended up if he opted to come back, but as you say it doesn't look like it will be in Australia.

I doubt she's lying. $8M read like a guess, albeit one I would have made too. The contract amount is probably about right.

Especially given the devastating impact the court case would have had on RA, even if they won. We can only assume because he got paid a fortune not to.

I assume Raelene Castle is referring to the $8M report by Clarissa Bye being "wildly inaccurate". It did read like a guess.

I figured $8M would be about the mid point of the 2 starting offers. There wasn't a good precedent so it was difficult to determine who would win the case. And actually going through with the case, regardless of result, didn't appear to hurt Folau but had monumental ramifications for RA if all...

Yeah $8M is about what I expected when the statements were released. I imagine that's the general consensus.

Or 8 depending on who's making up the story. Safe to say it's somewhere in the middle.