Sounds like he's got a good 2 year deal at South Sidney.

Good luck to the guy

GH has certainly proven to be the master of salary cap management since its introduction, but it is exceptional to release players mid contract with no obvious breach of discipline. I could only come up with 2 possibilities, firstly to trim the cap, secondly (and hopefully) to make room for a new signing. Over to you GH

Much better players than Luke have messed about with GH and failed. Luke had told everybody he was off at the end of season so the Leeds deal was (in theory) lip service. It doesnt take 3 days to say no

If Leeds have reached any kind of settlement with the two players to cover the remainder due under their contracts, that will come off this year's salary cap. I wouldn't expect to see any additions to the squad for the rest of this season.

As Burgess asked to be released from the remainder of his contract I doubt Hetherington will have paid him anything much for the priviledge.

Cross however, you would presume, will have been entitled to a settlement on the remainder of his deal (2011 and 2012) so on balance I agree that it's unlikely it will have provided any spare capacity for a signing this year without Leeds already had that space under the cap.

What it does prove however is that Hetherington's "we're operating at the full cap" mantra is actually a crock of brown stuff, assuming Cross did receive a settlement. Leeds wouldn't have been able to pay him up if they were at full cap as any payment counts towards this year, rather than the year for which it was originally due IIRC.

They would if it was settlement of this years salary. They wouldn't have paid any more (if that) if they were allowing him to become a free agent. Therefore his contract for current year wouldn't be exceeded.

I also think there is a rule whereby a long-term injured player can come off the cap (I think i remember that being the case - isn't that how Bradford afforded Morley on an end of season contract a few years ago) in which case Senior may be off the cap.

Wow, Biff and his mum made their mind up quckly on that Souths deal didn't they? If that happens then he can gladly gloat.

I seem to remember that Bradford broke the cap rule in 2005 when they had morley on loan. May have the wrong year but i am pretty sure it was 2005

He is free to find another club but in the mean time he is off on loan to Wigan until the end of the season. Watch him rip it up!

given an extended run with someone I think he will.

I'm amazed we brought him and his family all this way to bin him now after what,about 5/6 games for us?

He was clearly a Bluey signing but still I think he deserved more game time.

Both Kylie and even Peacock were getting stuck on here from some after their first half dozen games or so.

The last 2 games Cross had against Bulls & Cas away I thought he showed real promise. Good tackler,drove the ball in hard and was aggressive (albeit resulting in the odd brain fart of a penalty but there are plenty of other culprits in our squad over the years for giving penalties away whilst in possession)

at least he offered a bit of 'mungrel' in our pack, something which is often missing.

I think he will end of proving to be a good edition for someone if he stats in Super League the next 2/3 years