Which of course means, you value Langley in the 50k region? Oh dear. I hope you don't work in finance.

Is this a euphemism or am I being cynical??

That's as big a shock as any in this thread.

Aye, 'appen.

Must admit I find it difficult to see an NRL club paying a significant fee for someone of Orford's age and pay him something near to what we are. If they rate him that highly why didnt they just sign him before he came to us?

mick for a story to be believable you need to keep it consistent. you started this thread with



i.e YOU claimed to have personally seen/talked to leon and some other players in the pub. Now you're claiming that you were told they were in, and now that someone else was winding you up, when confronted with the fact that your so called witnesses state that neither you nor said players were present on the night in question.

Do they still make kids read/watch "billy liar" at school? If not then I'd suggest you rent a copy and watch it as it could be a bio-pic about your life.

and thats maybe the key point saints fans are missing. They can certainly force leon to fulfil his contract. They cant make him play well.

Sts are potentially in the same boat as us with orford and buirgess last year, and leeds with eastwood. We are all stating that we are only going to release the player for £x amount. The reality is that the figure the selling club asks for is usually just a sop to the fans the real figure is usually much more reasonable and usually undisclosed.

As a hypothetical example, say leon is on 120k a year and his injury will force him to miss first 3 months of season. He goes into saints board and makes it clear he is returning to bradford at end of 2011 season no matter what they offer him and would prefer a release now. bradford make a reasonable offer for said release, say 50k.

saints can either

1. pay leon 60k for doing nothing recovering then another 60k for making a less than 100% effort for remainder of season. He then leaves for nothing.

2. give leon the release he wants and get 50k from bradford. They also free up 120k of salary cap for their new coach to spend on players who want to be their (either extensions to lomax,eatmond or a new player entirely).

Other benefit for saints is that they are probably going to see reduced crowds and hence revenue next year whilst playing at widnes (we certainly did during our time at VP and that was much close to odsal than Widnes is to st helens), so it may be attractive to them to lose one of there higher paid stars (who they will lose a year later anyway) and also get some ready cash coming in to offset the reduced crowd revenue.

Certainly not as clear cut as we want 150k and thats it. and lets not forget they cant sell pryce in the short term to anyone else unless he agrees.

Mick would do better reading "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", I suggest?

Leon needs to adopt the "Bad Neck" defence. Similar to Newlove's "Bad Back".

Skints can have a few good fringe players we'll have their star.

Job done.

To be fair to the article, it says that Pryce is high on the wanted list... not that anything has been sorted. I could name a fair few players that are also on our wanted list but it doesn't mean they're going to be pulling on the RAB anytime soon!

I would be highly amused to see Leon's face if he comes back and gets put on the wing for the first game!

Forget the compensation to saints. It would very much be a free transfer.