Massively OT - but what area of law are you in? Just curious.

G1, the bit I disagree with you on, is that you seem to think that we will have to pay out additional salary to BJB, Clarkson and other juniors, whilst I am saying that we must have already known about this and factored it into our sums when calculating how much we had to spend on re-signing the 7 players we did earlier this year. Then considering that one player who agreed a contract extension (Donald) has subsequently decided to retire, this leaves even more spare Salary Cap capacity.

These are facts not assumptions, so you might as well drop the Law V Sales guff which you are using to try to discredit my statements.

I'm in charge of making cups of tea when client's visit.

And occasionally I get to clean the whizzy wee off the Senior partner's desk when he's been shtooping a secretary.

Congratulations on your promotion!

So you don't think, for example, clarkson will be in receipt of en enhanced contract given that he has now quit his day job and gone full time?

Maybe they always leave spare capacity in case, you know, a player like Clarkson emerges during the season. A player they will likely not have factored in their calculations for this season but one who became a 1st team regular, one who will have received match bonuses un-budgeted for and an enhanced conrtacted, unbudeted for.

What are facts?

You don't want to know what I had to do to earn it....

Won't match bouses (should they exist) be paid to the 17 players who play 1st grade each week regardless of who they are within the squad and won't it be a committment that is known in advance and budgetted for?

He's not bright enough to work that one out for himself.

You spoilsport.

I'm off to my mum's for tea.

Actually... thats quite believable

It would not be surprising to find the Leeds squad suddenly being "very grown up" about things if Eastwood starts delivering consistantly on the field.

Very true mate but i just don't think he'll be here anyway.

Would you like him to stay? I've not seen enough of him to form an opinion to be honest.

When he puts the effort in mate i really like him and he could be a real impact player for us but with the off field drama and the effort the club have gone to get him here and keep him happy i think it's best if he went.
Of course like you say if the issues were resolved and the rest of the squad were happy then yeah keep him by all means as long as he toes the line and puts 100% into everything.

Heard a rumour that GC Titans have put a bid in, our choice for player swap with Luke Bailey or money

tvoc won't like me saying this, but I'd bite their hands off for that player swap if Bailey genuinely wanted to come over. Not sure whether he's laid his rep ambitions to rest though.

A four prop rotation of Peacock, Leuluai, Bailey and Bailey would be the best in the league by some distance IMO.

How? When there is no guarantee that Peacock will come back the same player yet, IMO Saints would have 2 props better than any of them.

There's also no guarantee that Perry and LMS will fire for Saints either or that Graham won't be "burnt out" after another gruelling season and tour dowm under.
At the moment nothing is guaranteed especially who will be better placed squad wise.

Andy, whilst there is no doubt that Luke Bailey would significantly improve our front row options, stating that it would be the best 4 prop rotation in the league by some distance is a pretty big statement. I'd say that Warrington (Morley, Carvell, Wood and Harrison), Saints (Graham, Perry, Puletua and Emmitt), Wigan (Fielden, Lima, Coley and Prescott) would all have something to say about that.

So get off the fence and give an opinion if you disagree with his statement.

Coley and Prescott. Guffaw.

and warringtons didn't look so clever in the two league games when we had a fully fit pack.

pmsl

We played most of 1 of those without JP aswell.
They also were'nt the "world beaters" everyone made them out to be last night either.

Bet they will all be there helping to demolish Knows' Road at first available opportunity.

Hope for Leeds yet: it would be sweet to get revenge over Warrington.

Yep and although we got a good hiding at Wembley last night also highlighted that we were as bad as they were good in the CC final.
Saints re-grouped well last night after a poor start and put the "grind" on the Wire pack.