Any club but us.. Cant see him re-signing for us.

Seems to be picking up a bit of momentum

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BREAKING : Leeds Rhinos coach Brian McDermott will not comment on stories tonight that Leeds have agreed to sign Tom Briscoe for next year.

Unfortunately, it's looking highly likely.

If he could leave our club as it is now to go and sign for Leeds, I would be surprised but very very disappointed. If he is prepared to do that, he clearly doesn't care one jot for our club or fans so him.

Then i hope AP goes nuts and signs a massive name for us, from another ESL club

I said last year that Willie Manu would have more of a chance at silverware by staying with us, and people thought I was daft for saying it. I say exactly the same thing with Tom & Leeds.

Apparently mike white on twitter has mentioned it, cant believe he would go to Leeds of all teams.

If Tom doesn't sign on the dotted line for us, which seems likely. Then I will be extremely disappointed the club have not managed to secure his services for whatever reason but I dont have a problem with him signing for anybody else whatsoever, Leeds included!

It's a shame he feels he can not fulfill his career ambitions with us but he has to do what he needs to do to achieve what he wants to achieve. Whether that be play in Australia, win trophies or for purely financial reasons. He will go wherever he goes with my blessing..... (Which I am sure will mean a lot to him

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Agreed.
People need to stop being so precious.
Players come and go.
It's the nature of the beast.

Always has been always will be!

You are basically saying , unless a player signs for life, they don't care when they are playing.

That's a fairly narrow minded view.

It seemed clear that Tom wanted to give the NRL a shot. He was due to sign for Crunulla until their drugs issues were made public. This is after Hulls initial offer. Hull, knowing of the players desire to play in Aus, start planning around this and allocate cap money else where.

It is more than possible that when Tom got nervous about the drugs issue, be backs out of a move to Crunulla. He is now in a position where he has no offers on the table. Hull may well have offered him something but it will not have been as big as their initial offer. Tom is then effectively having to move.

The strange thing is, other clubs will be aware of this and I would reckon, unless he goes to Salford, he will not be improving his salary by a great deal.

Briscoe has not lead the club on, has not held the club to ransom, hasn't broken his contract and certainly doesn't deserve to be treated badly.

Did you call Manu, Moa etc for not staying?

It's their job, they have a limited earnings time doing this job

Why not? Do Leeds not pay their players?

It's a shame (especially as we look to be in better shape than we have for years) and he'll be a big loss but if he'd rather be somewhere else then ta-rah and thanks.

We can cope without him and it'll free up a chunk of salary cap for more important positions in the squad.

Positive thinking.
It's the way forward.

Tom Briscoe has given me terrific memories of some very special tries and, indeed, tackles for Hull FC . I would love him to stay but, if he now moves on, then he goes with my thanks.

If he now signs for one of our SL rivals and plays against us then I suggest the way to deal with it is put Whiting in the centre opposite him and send high kicks his way all the game.

What, The team that have won the comp 5 years out of 6? Baffling.

Why, he is from Featherstone?

He was obviously set on going to Oz, during which time we've re-allocated his money so his options will be limited. I think the length of deal he signs elsewhere will be interesting. A 3+ year deal will show he's unlikely to ever go to Oz

Right, Lets get rid of this negativity.

At the moment, no one on here actually knows where Tom will be next season.

FWIW, if he does leave, he will leave having left some great memories. Here are a few,

1. 80 meter try against rovers in his debut season,2008
2. Try saving tackle on Fox in the last play of the 2010 derby
3. Try against Leeds in the last regular season game after radders had been sent off.
4. The two tries scored away at Cas at the back end of the 2011 season
5. Try against Leeds 2012, burst the tackle and outpaces 3 would be tacklers.

Would be nice if No. 6 was scoring in the CC final..........

Try in the fog against St's at Knowsley Rd with only one boot on.

And so the worries that he would sign for leeds, that I expressed at the begining of this thread come to fruition


I reckon the fact he has had yeaman on the inside of him will be one of the main reasons that he opted to leave hull, if yeaman had give him some ball the past 3 years then he probably would have signed his new deal a long time ago...

Quite possibly the most ridiculous post I've ever read on rlfans in the last 7 years

It's up there.

1 hardaker
2 Briscoe
3Watkins
4moon
5hall

Not half bad for Leeds that!

He's going to Leeds Fact to link up with Joel moon, hall to the right with watkins, we just need some half backs that can give them the ball then !

it's certainly a contender