Well Brierley has been on gmr this afternoon and said he's never given a 4 week notice,come on ryan read your statement where you had given 4 weeks notice and you could be out of work on 1 April also hull and Huddersfield was named as clubs by Brierley that wanted him,his story changes every day so you wonder why we don't believe him

Statement from Ferres/Bulls

BRADFORD Bulls would like to clarify comments, which were made in the media regarding Ryan Brierley’s agent, Craig Harrison.

Steve Ferres, Bradford Bulls Managing Director, can confirm he spoke with Harrison. However, his comments published in the media regarding the position of his client have been misinterpreted.

Ferres is in contact with Harrison, who has several clients who play for the Bulls and has always acted in a professional manner when dealing with the club.

"When I spoke with Craig it was public knowledge Ryan wanted to leave Leigh Centurions, subject to a clause in his contract – Craig did not inform me of this," said Ferres.

"I simply asked him to inform me if Ryan became available."

I don't think anyone at leigh believes Bradford did make an offer to ryan, but it doesn't mean he didn't say it.

No the media don't do that according to fans that believe everything that been written about Derek Beaumont

Can we please have more Leigh fans on here defending Derek, we might just fall for it if there's a few more

Quite. I think we are wasting our time getting through. You just seem obsessively hellbent with him.

I'm off.

That is the conclusion I am coming to also. He knew the club were in a bad position and that he was our only available half back and tried to take advantage of the situation to get himself some more cash. Using Bradford as the allegedly interested party hoping Beaumont would rather pay the cash than let Bradford 'get one over on him' by taking our poster boy.

Would explain his changing story, his contrasting statements and then him panicking and deleting his twitter account. The sooner the whole thing is sorted the better. Take what we can get for him, if anything, and then move on with players that want to be at the club.

Think the situation stinks whichever way you look at it.

Neither Brierley or Leigh are coming out of this well at all. I think there is probably some truth in both sides of the story. Whilst Derek Baffoon has never been my cup of tea, I do think one of his players has tried to make the most out of the recent happenings over there.

That said, I think the way said Baffoon has gone about his business recently (bringing in known trouble makers, Rowley departure etc etc) has unsettled the player and probably made him wonder if he'll ever get to SL.

I've posted on here before that I think a Gaskell/Brierley half back combination would be one of the strongest in british rugby but with everything going on round this, I would hope the club stay well clear as this could end up blowing up in our faces.

At the end of the day, its the fans that lose out!!!

Deleted by request *all good with my Bulls friend & I*

Well that's told me.

Actually I agree I was wrong to put comments like that and I apologise. I like to think i am big enough to admit when I'm in the wrong.

Don't go setting precedent's on this forum Roger, nobody else ever apologised on here despite being proved wrong re the Bulls different situations.

Take no notice of him Rog, he's clearly got the hump cos you know more than him, that said all their fans are clueless as to what's going on over there in lalaland.

Rumour going around that you hit double digits in the last MENSA test, well done.

I'm not sure what's more childlike. The way Brierley/Jukes/Beaumont etc are handling this, or the "insults" being thrown around on this thread.

With regards to who's telling the truth, I'm often bewildered how some people make their minds up. Unless I know one of the people involved personally, or at least know someone who knows them, I wouldn't trust any of them. As far as I can see, any of them could be lying and I'm in no place to say which ones. The idea of believing one side based on which club you have feelings for (positive or negative) is ludicrous to me.

I believe they did. We will never know exactly the content of the discussion but my belief is that the agent touted Brierley, a contracted player, to Ferres with an indication of cost and Ferres showed interest in taking him. He probably told Ferres he had an exit clause that was enforceable and/or he was working his notice, this had not happened at the time. I also believe agents are currently over every club like a rash talking about players that can be approached in May indicating expectations and then using it as negotiating tools to secure the best commissions. The bottom line is that unless the conversation was taped we will never know.
I would also like to add that PR is not holier than thou, as one of our ex employees at your place would testify to, he was exceptionally well looked after by first Arthur Thomas then Derek, and if he had walked as we signed Rangi I would applaud the mans morals if he felt that strongly. The timing imo was designed to have as much negative impact as possible on the start to the season, not someone who deeply loves the club as that person would simply walk away without leaving grenades in the media.

I'm willing to stick my neck out and say that I don't think Bradford are the source of the troubles at Leigh. I know its a crazy notion but i reckon that the problems go a little deeper than whether Steve Ferres enquired about Brierley availability.

I'm not sure what answers leigh fans expect to find on the Bulls forum? Good luck trying anyway.

Meh. Wake me up when something happens.

I just think its his agent trying to use clubs like yourselves to get Brierley more money,I'm sure if someone asked Leigh if they wanted Gaskill I'm sure they would say yes just like just like Bradford have done with Brierley but it doesn't make Bradford guilty of doing anything wrong

Chissy, thank you for those kind words

Also Chissy I feel I spoke too soon the other day when I suggested it looks like your club seems a bit more stable these days. I hope it's not the start of a circus for you as well now

We've been there as we know and you never know what each day brings

Isn't it great been a fan

Sorry Blotto, oops I've said it again

Roger & I are all good thanks.

He's alright by me

We are all good friends, as it should be

As the song by Ringo Starr goes "It don't Comes easy" it could be the sig tune for both clubs, just when you think things are looking up a bit the rugby gods have kicked us in the family jewels again, the conspiracy theorists are out in full and to date there are 13 different definite reasons why he's gone.
There is a statement being released sometime today not that it will give it to you straight from the thread to the needle then again who cares he's gone now, although results haven't really gone his way there seemed to be progress being made, but I'm sure we'll be able to cock that up as well with a cheaper option financially, just summat else to look forward to Rog, can't wait for the jury on the Vitriol Terrace to pass their verdicts not to mention shall we say the differences of opinion on our board

at one point last night we had a record breaking number of visitors on our board, does that mean we are doing something right

Its just like the newspapers, bad news is good news. Who wants to read about a success story.

Oh for the days when players would speak to clubs directly. I guess agents do get better money for their clients, but they're definitely a mixed blessing.