But I thought it was not so much about clauses in the contract, but RFL rules mean that both player and club have 3 months notice to stay or go.

Yes there is certainly some legislation in place regarding a 3 month 'cooling of period'

I think however you may have to have been here a certain amount of time for that to apply. Mortimer signed a contract for 2018 knowing there was every chance the club could be relegated 6 weeks later.

Contracts? Clauses? How about this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Sy6oiJbEk

Contracts? Clauses? How about this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Sy6oiJbEk

Is it not a big weakness of MPG that you are basically on a free contract? Could another team or agent not be filling a players head with promise of a big signing on fee for a new club should they lose? It seems wide open to exploitation and a lot easier than feigning homesickness.

Monty what about Toronto squad makes them the team too beat? Ashton sims wouldn't of got in our aging pack this year... Dave Taylor is unfit and overweight had half a good season in nrl and he's living off that.. Toronto has a good squad but certainly no better than what we have with a few old heads too go out and some good signings too come in.

Quote ="Cokey"Contracts? Clauses? How about this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Sy6oiJbEk'" Derek, I'm sure you know all about the Sanity Clause.

Quote ="Cokey"Contracts? Clauses? How about this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Sy6oiJbEk'" Derek, I'm sure you know all about the Sanity Clause.

So Drinkwater going to Toronto then







Promising news about Mortimer also, would love him to stay but in all honesty don't expect him to. Hopefully he may feel he owes us, but if not at least we will get dosh to invest elsewhere

Don't all contracts only expire on the 30th November? The rules state!

"If a Club's divisional status for the forthcoming season will not have been decided by 31st August,the Club may make two offers of re-engagement,one to cover each of the divisions."

Goodwins contract must have covered Championship,which would have kicked in on 1st December. Or Leigh wouldn't have got a fee.

Someone had the Clubs best interest at heart..

By that reckoning, you'd think any other contracts that covered championship would now be announced already.

Maria gone Toulouse?

Understandable. He was homesick living in Leigh, plus didn't speak English very well.

Plus Toulouse is his home town club.

Going off the rules,there must be complete disarray at present. Championship to SL followed by SL to Championship,the contractual side of things must be a nightmare. The only contract so far with any clarity was Goodwins.

RFL safeguards causing chaos. Who'd have thought it!

nobody in Leigh does

Losing Maria is a massive blow!!! The guy was class... Some real strong Carrys and a lot of hard work!

But they did. The season has never been 23 rounds long in its history. It is 30 rounds long. You finished twelfth, in that there were eleven teams above you. What you had was a second chance of saviour.
We've never had relegation determined by who finished bottom seven games before the end.

With the current MPG format we still don't have a system that reliably puts the bottom of twelve down after 30 games. It did this time but may not next season.
P&R is a must for me but I'd rather go with 14 team SL, tops 8 playoffs. Bottom SL straight down, top Champ straight up. OR, bottom team is SL play top team in Champ twice (home and away) to decide.
Living in Canada I see how a closed shop League makes way to many games meaningless, especially for the lower end teams toward the end of the season, hence I strongly support P&R.
I do think also that there may be an argument to make it a first season pass for a promoted team if they finish bottom. (ie have the second to bottom be the jeopardy).

Yes, we finished 12th after 30 games. Catalans finished 13th and stayed up!

that might be the best solution - 5th in the eights goes down without the gladiatorial MPG where Emperor Nigel lords it over two tearful sets of honest professional men.

Crikey Jack are you ok?

Charlie knows !

"The party of the first part, shall be known as the party of the first part ". - Groucho Marx

Ahah fine thanks but I can't think of any other sport where you fight to the death and one team loses their livelihoods - it's demeaning and the mental health issues are appalling including 'survivor syndrome' for members of the winning team.

Jukes and Anderson signed up for next season to

FFS