Todd Carney has won his appeal for unfair dismissal. Source: Matt Blyth / Getty Images
IN an extraordinary development Todd Carney has won his case for unfair dismissal with the NRL appeals committee.
Tribunal chairman, Ian Callinan QC, has ruled the Cronulla Sharks failed to allow the 28-year-old due process prior to tearing up his contract following the appearance of a lewd 'bubbling' photo on social media last June.
Callinan's independent committee found that the high-profile five-eighth should have got an opportunity to plead his case in front of the Cronulla Sharks board.
As a result of this decision, a small window for Carney to return to the NRL has been edged slightly ajar.
Whether Carney chooses to, is now a decision for the fallen star and his management.
A processing error looks to have given Todd Carney a way back into the NRL. Source: Getty Images
With his image in tatters as Cronulla became the third club to terminate his contract, after Canberra and the Sydney Roosters, the former NSW State of Origin star has been forced to pick up the pieces of his career in France with English Super League Club, Catalans.
The NRL's decision also provides Carney with the option of taking a legal standpoint and the possibility of an unfair dismissal claim with the Industrial Relations Commission — which could prove an exhaustive and expensive process.
Cronulla chairman Damian Keogh said the club would accept the decision of the NRL appeals committee, admitting they had failed to follow the correct process.
However, despite Cronulla failing to score a single try in 80-minutes against Brisbane last Friday night, Keogh indicated the likelihood of the board backflipping on the decision and reinstating the playmaker, who is currently injured in France with broken ribs, was remote.
The infamous image that cost Carney his job. Source: Twitter
"The big oversight was that someone needed to check that the process being followed was correct,'' Keogh told The Sunday Telegraph.
"What's important to remember here is that it's not a question of the facts, it's a question of the process, but the reality of the situation is, the decision would likely have been the same.
"I wouldn't rule out Todd Carney returning to the NRL one day, but from my point of view there has been a lot of water that has flown under the bridge since last June.''
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Interestingly, Keogh's opinion is in contrast to a players poll conducted by Rugby League Week magazine last August which indicated that 78 per cent of the players polled believed Carney should be allowed back to the game.
It was amid the maelstrom circling a shattered Carney following his sacking that he claimed former chief executive Steve Noyce was a large reason for his swift departure from the Shire-club.
Carney has been playing for French club Catalans in the English Super League. Source: Supplied
"I got a phone call late and he (Noyce) asked me what I thought should happen," Carney said last June.
"I said that I wanted an opportunity to talk to the players firstly and talk to the board and the staff. He said he'd let me know about that.
"Then the boys got a text message 10 minutes later saying there is a release that's going to happen. I felt betrayed and lied to.''
The NRL told The Sunday Telegraph it was premature to suggest Carney's NRL career was over saying: "There's no contract before us to have Todd Carney registered with the NRL so it's not a matter for the NRL at this stage.''
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