Aren't problems like this what we have Hunslet for nowadays?

Any threat of being shipped off to there would definitely get me on the straight and narrow.

I see Nantwich is bored again! Still poor efforts, mind!

Why should he - if Leeds sacked there would be a feeding frenzy for his signature. He would at a new club on much more money in time for pre-season. As I said before GH has no qualms about tearing up a contract when it doesn't suit him - ask Ryan Sheridan or Andy Hay. So morals have no part to play here - contracts are not worth the paper there written on in reality. GH was quite happy to sell Iestyn even though he had signed a new contract the year before - if a player wants to leave it is very difficult to stop them.

Scary.....you know me better than your wife

What option does Hardaker have? Leeds hold the cards. He's contracted.

Ask Iestyn he too was contracted didn't stop him exiting when Wales came calling.

Can see GH paying a player a reasonable wedge and not playing - if Zac wants out he will leave and there is not a lot GH can do. The same happens in reverse in GH wants a player out so he can't have it both ways

Iestyn exited not because he wanted to but because he was allowed to, with compensation and several clauses.

Leeds decided in that case they were better off with the money than with an unhappy player, especially given the player would not be strengthening an opponent. They didn't *have* to do that, and they wouldn't have to do it with Hardaker. It's absolutely untrue to say there isn't a lot that can be done *if* ZH wants to leave.

If Iestyn hadn't have wanted to leave there would have been no need to allow him now would there?

Leeds could not have kept Harris GH had to release him they did the best deal they could in the circumstances. If Zac really wants to leave GH will do the best deal he can rather than have an unhappy potentially disruptive influence in the squad. The player holds all the cards - if Leeds had sacked him he would be free to move on - restraint of trade etc.

If GH wanted to dig his heels in - although like you, I doubt he would - Zak would still be registered as a Leeds player under RFL rules.

Harris's registration meant zilch under the circumstance of his switching codes. The club was in a far, far weaker position over that one.

Pratt was lucky to get as many chances as he did at Leeds.

His off-field behaviour made Jordan Tansey look like Kevin Sinfield in the professionalism stakes.

Yet they managed to get Harris to sign a significant contract extension the year before he went to Union, and thus demanded a substantial fee for the move. Not to mention the contract that allowed Leeds to take legal proceedings and win after his return in Bradford shirt.
Pretty f*****g good deal if you ask me.

The money that the Rhinos received from both Iestyn's sale to the WRU and also the compensation deal that the Bulls had to subsequently pay back to us surely makes this the most expensive single transfer contract in English RL history

Gawwy by plenty