The Mole rarely gets anything wrong. And looking at his tweets from the past few hours, he's actually saying Leeds are favourites to sign Sam Burgess, and he's not going back to Souths "anytime soon." When he jumps off the fence, The Mole is rarely wrong.

I see us signing him for a year or two.

Looking at his tweets he's not saying anything of the sort, just that he won't be going back to Souths. I suspect he'll stay in RU.

You must be blind, my friend. Read his tweets from the past 5-6 hours. In particular the one to @FredTHFC99

Says he's more likely to go to Leeds than South's...doesn't say whether he's even more likely to stay in yawnion

He's off for a Bath instead

Does anyone really think he's staying in union? Dropped from the Bath game, then goes and sits next to McBanana at the Eng-Fra game. Talk about adding fuel to a fire that Burgess hasn't tried to extinguish.

Well you soon change your mind. It was only just over a week ago you were posting the following.



Now your telling other people what they should think.

May be Souths don't want or need him back? Having opted out of the club for a different code on a three year contract, I assume the Souths made plans to deal with that reality. I don't get to watch the NRL so I don't know how competitive their pack looks with out big Sam But if they're going OK maybe Souths have other recruitment priorities?

I would love to see us sign Sam Burgess, but I wonder if the NRL will prove a stronger £ pull. That's assuming that he leaves Bath in the first place.

Agree, there are many possibilities / permutations. But the longer the rumours continue, and the less Burgess does to quash them, the more a deal looks likely. Especially when people who are genuinely itk (not in an attention seeking way like Gotcha) are starting to report it.

If the RFL/SL could part fund Sam Tomkins salary to stop him defecting to RU could not (should not) they do the reverse in attracting big Samback from RU?
The other side of the same coin it seems to me.
I wonder if this is what GH is trying to engineer?

It certainly could be the case that beneath this particular pall of smoke there is a fire, but on the other hand...

One things for certain, all this speculation and excitement puts Sam in the shop window and it won't be doing our season ticket sales any harm either. So I doubt anyone will be in a rush to clarify things.

I just can't see it. He only left for RU in November and didn't start training until December. Many didn't expect him to make the England squad for the WC and he proved them wrong. Why would he come back now.

Because he went to appear in that WC. The way England rushed him into the side it's obvious they were behind his move even if they claim it was all Bath. Probably why he went, because he was promised a WC spot.

And he played in that World Cup. Who knows, he might have played more (even if it was off the bench) had England not bombed out of the tournament after the group stages.

Now the question is does he fancy hanging around, learning a new position in the back row and trying to work his way back into the England side again to establish himself as first choice for the 2020 World Cup?

It'll probably involve some wet nights out on loan while he learns and makes his mistakes away from the spotlight of the Premiership. Playing in front of a few hundred at smaller clubs in the third tier doesn't necessarily strike me as the sort of thing that will inspire or motivate a player who wants to be involved in the big occasions.

He's not a union player at all.. doesn't have the attributes to be able to nail down an England spot at flanker or at centre. The man is made for RL without a doubt. He's a superstar of an RL player... and this sport we love should do everything in it'ds power to bring him back be it NRL or ESL.