then it wont be a bad thing then will it?

see Jimmy Hornby's post

So we should get rid of Leuluai now as well then?

silly idea

cap should be 50% of turnover, end of

if clubs like quins and wakey cant manage then they need to get their fingers out

Im thinking more about him getting unjured

Anyway i hope he does OK and comes back in good shape

Clubs that can't spend to the cap shouldn't even be in SL.

which is a fair point (and one i agree with) but the decision has been made

Indeed.

As an aside I was talking to someone about the likes of Lockyer doing a couple of years over here instead of retiring. Can you imagine him running onto the pitch on a wet Sunday afternoon at Wakefield?!

Wally Lewis did. (And he was better than Lockyer).

There are a lot of knickers getting twisted over this!

IL has correctly recognised that you cannot ring fence your employees and tell them not to look, don't talk to those nasty people over there. As soon as you become scared stiff of allowing your employees look at what else they could experience you develop a culture where a) you restrict the talent you bring to your organisation, b) you stifle the development of people in your org.

It is the sign of a scared beaten company.

Thats true he could have got injured playing in the four nations final..injuries rugby league are an occupational hazard and i wouldn't have had any issues with that, however getting injured playing rugby union is a different kettle of fish altogether. As i said in my earlier post, him being insured is no consolation whatsoever to me as a wigan fan.

Well that is very nice for you with your discussions with your friends but in case you missed it RU's renewed interest in our game seems to be resulting in RL players moving to RU. That is how they are "accepting" the skills of our game. So anything that encourages RU to look to league to take our players isn't something I would class as the best thing to happen to RL since SL started. I really do not think you can say "told you so" to your mates in Bath because Eastmond is now playing RU. Not unless you have an odd definition of success.



How anyone who just rattled off a list of players who ought to be playing league but are now playing their trade in Union can argue this is going to benefit our game is beyond me. I can certainly see players moving to RU from RL benefiting RU but I'd hazard a guess your two mates from Walsall will stop coming if all the talent has moved to RU.

Except that is apparently exactly what we have done for the first 3 years of his contract

Anyway this is maybe some sort of salary cap workaround to get more money to sam without us paying it

So your saying you want a league of about 8/9 clubs?

leuluai is not playing for other teams in rival codes and he is not going to play for a rival code when his deals ends also he has not changed his contract twice and had people bend over backwards for him.

No I want a league of 10.

Also he has honoured his contract he has signed

Yes but he going after next season so based on your warped view of the world of work we may as well just get rid as he'll simply be thinking about the NZ Warriors.

As is Sam...

or is he breaking the 'spirit' of his contract?

If sam goes after rlwc2013 how has he seen out his contract.

I'm sure if Sam hasn't the club wouldn't be letting him play.

Here's something for you to consider, maybe, just maybe all this was actually done before he agreed his new deal and was part of the contract. Sam can play in a few of these games to boost his income outside the salary cap, allowing us to be able to afford to keep him at Wigan.

I can already hear the sounds of a few heads exploding while they try to get their brains around that one.

i must have missed the announcement confirming his departure after that tournament

On reflection, it would explain an awful lot.