Or as clearwing says flog him to wigan

BDL plain and simple - wasn't the first, won't be the last.

Let's hope this is the last of it and and the BDL is a little more sensible next time.

Not much of a mention of Kearney in that.

"I have paid a heavy price and will now miss out on my dream of helping England win the World Cup," he said.
"I am sorry for any embarrassment I have caused and my focus now is on moving forward next season and putting these events behind me."

Fair enough.

Exactly.

Well done Leeds from a PR and management perspective.

Let's hope he has learned his lesson and he can kick on from here.

So what has he done?

The England RL set up could learn a thing or two about PR & management from the Rhinos.

So could Salford, they just have some rich bloke shooting from the hip.

Lets hope its done and dusted and he learns from it aswell as coming back in 2014 ready to kick on show what a quality player he is.

Well said rhinoms.
Without really knowing what's happened, could this, at least in part, be down to a pretty rapid rise for Hardaker? It's less than 4 years since he was playing for Featherstone Lions and he's now Leeds first choice full back and vying for the England spot? If Tomkins wasn't so bloody good he'd easily be England full back.

Only a thought.

I take it G1, Tad and Harrigan are going to admit their 'in the know' snippets were in fact a load of cr@p then? You know like if anyone else posted rumours with the whole protecting the source blah blah blah or little snippets of vague information when in fact it's a load of rubbish would get torn apart for...