Would be the fourth time in a year that we agreed with a player and told them a done deal, only to fail to do the business with the club. Not professional in my opinion.

However, having being out of the country a week, I have come back and heard similar to you. However, heard the change in position is because Burgess is a definite, and will be announced after World Cup.

I must not have been paying attention, who were the others?

So basically you're saying that blowing £150k plus maybe another £110k p/a wages on Westerman when Burgess allegedly and suddenly became available would have been the more professional approach? Riiiight....

Where's the burgess story come from? Thought it was finished

Westerman and Mossop I assume but I've no idea on the other two

Brierley perhaps?

He's ours for 2017 apparently.

As with the Burgess signing, I'm staying in the "I'll believe it when I see it" camp. As indeed Brierley should if he's yet to put pen to paper.

So wire offer more money than us but it's us that have pulled out of a done deal!, how does that work.

I completely trust in GH and Mac to bring in the right players and make the right business decisions.

As much as I would like us to sign Burgess, it will be interesting to see where that effects the balance of the squad. Top heavy if anything. And most definitely will be if it includes offloading one of our star backs.

I know for definite that Mossop had a medical at Kirkstall, I'm pretty sure that wigan would have been his first choice.

So did he not pass the medical and Wigan came in for him?

A reasonable stance in my opinion. GH hasn't got a bad track record in terms of who we do and don't bring in when you look at our trophy cabinet. We've passed on players in the past, Ellis when he returned from Aus being a notable example, who we would have liked to add to the squad. But when the bidding / salary requirements went past what we could justify with in our means and salary structures. Those financial structures have contributed to the building of a balanced cohesive team, that as I said haven't got a bad track record. Especially compared to the spend spend spend approach of other clubs.

He did turn up for a medical, true. We turned him down after seeing him struggle to push the door open.

Think you have misunderstood my comment, as others.

We have agreed terms with players on four seperate deals in the last year, Clarke twice, Brierley, and Westerman. Told the players the deal done. Yet have failed to do business with the respective clubs.

I am not saying going back on a deal to accomodate Burgess is necessarily wrong, although what happens if a Burgess deal doesn't go through. I am saying that it is not very professional to allow players to think otherwise, not when you proclaim yourself as a club with loyalty to players, and it doesn't matter who the player is.