Is close to agreeing a termination of his Bath contract and is wishing to return to league with Saints and Leeds both intrested.

Should we be intrested in bringing him back to the club.

do you have a source for this? or are you just pulling it out your jacksey?

It's doing the rounds at the minute so how true no-one really knows.

on here maybe, but has he even played for bath yet?

A couple of sub appearances from what i gather and wouldn't you have his RL registration or and "agreement" if he came back to league

I agree i'd be gutted if we signed him.
His last few months at your place he looked unfit and dis-interestd.

His wife who is very good friend with my wife mentined it when when she went down to Bath last week.

True. sorft enquiries about "If" Hape were to become available...etc. are doing the club rounds .
Really bombed out at Bath, has no future there or in RU. Might not be looking at too much money for a return to RL

Yet we have this...

Hape got his second start for Bath on 27/12. He was on for 61 minutes.

and on the 31/12 (yes tomorrow,LOL, that's time zones for ya, LOL)

rlhttp://sportal.co.nz/rugby-union-news-display/hape-happy-with-progress-62737rl

So the only link is about him being happy with the switch. The only stuff I've found about him looking to come back to league is internet message board chatter and "my mate's uncle" bumfluff

Considering that Bath will have paid compensation to Bradford, a signing on fee to Hape and his contract up to now. I doubt they'd be that keen to release him from his contract before the end of his first season there.

Unless, the team singing him agreed a decent compensation figure with Bath or the player bought his own contract out. Rugby players aren't on the same wages as a Champions League level soccer player so the latter is unlikely and can you really see Mcmanus or Hetherington paying out a substantial amount of money to sign a player who's knees are shot and who hasn't had a break since November 2007.

Shonny was a good servant to the club.

His top flight RL, IMHO, is well behind him now. Given his last year or so with us I don't think we ought to be even consider signing him, if any of this rumor is true of course. . .

I hope we signed him up to a "Harris" agreement before he left, that way we'd benefit again if he came back to RL.

Would I take him back at the Bulls? Going on what he showed for us last season I'd say no, unless he was on a much reduced contract. As an attacking threat he seemed to have lost it. Any club wanting to sign him ought to check out some videos of him in action in 2008 before putting any big money up.

Hang on, shouldn't the club first head north and consult stuck record DJ Marquee Eddie as to whether signing Hape would count as a "marquee signing"?