FOR most of the NRL world, Tuesday is M-Day.

Many expect Wests Tigers will release Mitch Moses sometime on Tuesday and he can take up an early start on his three-year deal to join Parramatta.

Whether Moses actually wants to leave now can be only presumed through the selective leaks rumbling through in the press. They have a habit of turning out right.

Moses is part of what is becoming a familiar narrative in the game nowadays.

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In his case, he was disappointed with Wests choosing to make Aaron Woods and James Tedesco their priority ahead of him once Luke Brooks re-signed and wanted out even though coach Ivan Cleary’s decision had nothing to do with performance or personality.

It was all about position. He had one of his halves, now he needed his prop and fullback.

So Moses signed with Parramatta and wanted an early release, effective Monday.

Cleary is speaking a like a grown up. He knows that anybody that doubts Moses’ commitment to the Tigers did not watch him play against North Queensland a week ago. Or in that early try against the Eels on Monday.

But the quiet whisper is Cleary is swimming against the tide and Moses will soon be gone, undone by the weight of sentiment.

At least Moses’s move will be over quickly. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) Source: AAP

The NRL must be wary that its players don’t become the pampered pooches of Aussie sport.

All too familiar narratives are being driven in the game at the moment, the narrative not always in tune with the agenda.

Last week Wayne Bennett called on the NRL to fix the “chaotic” problem of player transfers. Speaking once more from The Mount Bennett said Anthony Milford’s average early season form was caused by protracted contract negotiations.

It was an extraordinary example of selective memory.

Milford was only at the Broncos because they convinced him to sign a two-year $900,000 deal a full season before his contract in Canberra ended.

Now, Milford has been offered a three-year $2.7 million extension to remain at his current club.

That’s it, the depth of Milford’s distraction.

Not, sorry Milf, we don’t have a job for you here next year so hit the road. No, hey Milf, it’s been great but you’ve failed to reach the heights we expected so here’s a new deal on a reduced amount.

“It impacts on all the clubs, “ Bennett said. “We are all victims of it — it is pretty unfair.”

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Bennett has stubbed his toe on his scrapbook and the slow throb is clouding his thinking. If that is affecting Milford’s form then he is not the player we have been led to believe.

Thousands of workers every day have similar problems as real to them and, often, with bigger consequences.

Yet most don’t have managers doing the early legwork for them. Most don’t earn more than the Prime Minister.

And most don’t have a senior executive at their office, in Milford’s case the coach, making excuses for their sub-par performances because of this pressure of deciding on that new multi-million dollar deal.

The expectation is we turn up for work, ready to perform.

Deciding to remain with your current employer for a pay rise to $900,000 a year might be what the rest of us call a first world problem.

Who was Wayne Bennett trying to kid? (AAP Image/Dave Hunt) Source: AAP

Jack Bird did not seem to be distracted when being romanced by the same club Milford is dancing with. That was Bird on Sunday, cutting Penrith to bits.

It certainly hasn’t affected Moses, whose problems are more immediate.

Fans don’t like players leaving a club mid-season, we get that. But there is no better way.

Here, right on cue, is where everybody offers an alternative ... but nobody can offer a solution.

Even Bennett, a 30-year veteran, could not offer a solution when he complained last week about Milford, except to say “there are plenty of models” around the world the NRL should take a lead from.

Jack Bird didn’t seem too distraught about his Brisbane move. Photo: Gregg Porteous Source: News Corp Australia

He couldn’t have meant the English Premier League, which carries massive transfer fees from privately owned clubs, or the NFL, or the NBA or Major League Baseball, where players are bought and traded with no say of their own until they qualify for free agency.

Previous NRL models were a con. We had to pretend we weren’t being lied to while the cattle trade went on under our broken noses.

It happens and nothing except slave-like restrictions will stop it.

Or maybe it is time we began to think professionally about professional sport.