Parties reach an impasse

Stalemate over coach’s exit

An NBL1 club that made its coach redundant after just two months has now refused to payout money owed to him unless he signs a non-disclosure agreement.

It’s another hammer blow to coach Jordan Mullan who has been tabled an offer by Seahawks management but told he won’t see a cent unless he signs the confidentiality agreement in another bizarre twist for a club that has been under siege in recent times.

The former coach was made redundant in early December, just two months after he joined the association in preparation for the 2024 NBL1 season.

Now, six weeks after he was let go, the association and Mullan (pictured) have hit a roadblock.

Seahawks president Robert Sleaford confirmed the NDA was put in place and said they are working to an agreement.

“We have put an offer to him and are wanting him to sign a confidentiality agreement and he has neglected to do that,” Sleaford said.

“So that is where we are at a bit of a stalemate at the moment.

“We’re happy to pay him out but we just want him to sign a waiver to say he can’t go outside and have anything untoward said about us.

“At the moment he is not signing that and it has been dragging out 100 per cent.”

The redundancy of Mullan was never announced to the general public and it was only by word of mouth that members became aware of him departing.

“I know at the start when the agreement went through that we sort of said to him we were happy to give him a reference,” Sleaford said.

“You know because we are going in different directions, which does happen.

“And then after all the stuff that sort of started coming out in the papers, we had some lawyers look at it.

“And (we) just said sort of a confidentiality clause and once we had gone back to him he hasn’t agreed with that.

“We have come to a figure which we are all happy with and we want it signed and done with.”

A ‘non disclosure agreement’ is something you will find is common practice in most contracts, especially within the NBL1.

“We are not in the game for throwing around accusations or mistruths and that is what we don’t want,” Sleaford said.

“We don’t want to start building some momentum and then something is said.

“I am not saying he will, he might not.

“But he isn’t signing paper holding him to that.”

Jordan Mullan declined comment. the to