No but it might be next seasons. He's signed a 3.5 year deal hasn't he? Peanuts this year for the salary cap but an increase next?

Indeed. Which also gives credence to my point that it won't happen until next year at the every earliest.

I thought salary cap meant your wage averages out. So a club can't get away with paying someone 100 quid a week one year and 2000 quid a week the following year.

AFAIK Leeds Rhinos had to make a choice between keeping Burgess/ Scruton for salary cap reasons. Probably a bad choice in hindsight for me, but at the time Burgess was firing. Scruton has improved loads whereas burgess has kept at same level.

tbh it doesn't look like sculthorpe will ever pull on a bradford shirt. therefore we are short in terms of props. most people are of the opinion that crossley isn't up to standard and both younger burgess' are still a way off from being ready for SL. so, if we had the chance to sign him then I'd say get him signed.

but i'll believe it when i see it

Before this gets shot down by Leeds fans, it's not an accusation and I'm just thinking out loud, but they have just brought Lee Smith back in and so the question of how they have managed it under the salary cap must be raised. Could it be that they are looking to offload a forward (where they are pretty well covered if their squad is fully fit) to accomodate a new three quarter (where they are not) and if so then would such a deal have had to be completed prior to Smith's arrival?

To be clear again, I'm not suggesting that anyone is breaking the salary cap here. It's not Warrington after all.....

under the live cap they wouldnt be allowed to register smith without having cap space afaik. They may have an issue going forward with some of younger players getting a pay rise due to number of 1st team appearances, which they are having to play due to injuries to senior players. So they may want to create some cap space for this reason.
That said the comments on leeds board were along lines of burgess wanting to leave rather than leeds wanting to offload him.

Leeds can keep Burgess, Scruton is a much better prop.

ah, but the scruton back to leeds bit was added by someone on the leeds board as to what they would LIKE to see.
this thread is about having both scruton AND burgess at bradford. and that would be a good thing for us as we'd have 3 seasoned props to share the work that at the moment lynch and scruton are having to do

FFS SAKE SCRUTON ISN'T GOING ANYWHERE!

I heard we're swapping him for L Burgess, anybody seen this?

yeah iv read that on a forum somwhere