We have profiled some of the recent disastrous sojourns by NRL players into the inferior Super League.
3. Todd Carneyย
After being sacked by his third NRL club, Todd Carney decided to try his luck in the Super League and signed a three-year deal with the Catalans Dragons in France.
Having fought off multiple other suitors to gain his signature, the Dragons took the somewhat questionable step of anointing Carney their club captain. Sadly for Carney, only two games into his Super League career he would break his ribs, foreshadowing the rest of his career in Perpignan.
Carney went onto feature 33 times for the Dragons, scoring an impressive nine tries at five-eight, and those performances coupled with winning his wrongful dismissal case against the Sharks resulted in rumours beginning to circulate of a potential NRL return. This was put to bed almost immediately with Carney announcing at the Dragons awards night that he had signed a fresh three-year deal with Catalans.
However only months later and after winning only two of thirteen Super League matches, Carney would be forced out of the door with three-years still left on his contract, alongside fellow Australians Dave Taylor and Glenn Stewart.
