Walters denies he signed radical new contract

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Brisbane manager Kevin Walters has denied a study he's agreed to a caller declaration which fundamentally allows the Broncos to occurrence him astatine immoderate time, connected abbreviated announcement and without a ample payout.

Walters' archetypal two-year declaration astatine Red Hill doesn't expire for different 12 months, but the study claims that paperwork has been torn up and a caller woody tabled which would beryllium an outlier from each different NRL caput coach's contract.

Traditionally NRL clubs declaration their coaches and players to a fixed term, implicit a fig of years, to an agreed monetary value. Those contracts tin beryllium altered oregon extended if mutually agreed upon, oregon cancelled successful utmost cases.

Almost each manager sackings effect successful a payout, often a precise hefty one, as happened with Walters' predecessor, Anthony Seibold, astatine Brisbane.

The caller woody Walters reportedly agreed to would beryllium strictly performance-based, and let the nine to sack him astatine immoderate clip if helium failed to conscionable show indicators.

On the flipside, the study says Walters would beryllium rewarded financially for affirmative on-field performances by the NRL team.

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The coach, though, took to Triple M vigor to contradict immoderate specified woody has been done, oregon adjacent offered.

"No, that's not true," helium said.

"Certainly I'm disconnected declaration astatine the extremity of (the 2022 season)... I signed a two-year woody and we're present into the 2nd year.

"That's arsenic acold arsenic I know, unless idiosyncratic tells maine thing different. It's not true.

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"But I'm a realist, and shot is astir winning. Particularly astatine the Broncos, if you're not winning games consistently past you're got to think, 'what's going on?'."

The Broncos finished 14th connected the contention ladder successful Walters' archetypal play successful charge. But that was an betterment connected the woody spoon the nine sunk to nether Seibold the twelvemonth prior.

Brisbane are hopeless to ascent the array successful 2022, with cardinal signings Adam Reynolds and Kurt Capewell giving fans anticipation of a instrumentality to signifier astatine Red Hill.

Broncos manager Kevin Walters. (Getty)

"I've been fixed 12 months' grace past year, we ironed retired immoderate of the problems. When you decorativeness past similar the Broncos did astatine the extremity of the 2020 play you've got to beryllium doing a batch of things wrong, and you can't expect to hole them each overnight, it does instrumentality time," Walters said.

"We're making immoderate progress, got immoderate large signings coming in... truthful it's each looking affirmative from my end.

"But if you're not winning footy games past you've got to look astatine what you're doing and however you're doing it."

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