Agreed, sounds like utter nonsense to me.

Still, when it doesn't happen, those in the know can say that it all fell through at the last minute.

I can't see that slab of concrete being on anywhere near 300k a year. The prime minister only scrapes 150k

Not necessarily a compelling argument.

LE published his salary a year or two ago and I was completely gobsmacked. I can't recall the exact figure but it was a LOT more than 150k. I think it was shade under 300k but not by much.

275,000.

PLUS a whopping six figure wedge to top up his pension pot if I recall

To be fair, £275k a year doesn't go a long way with his Waitrose bills...

He needs 275k a year to feed his Pukka Pie habit

Can't see Nige taking over the Bulls, he has always preferred Halifax to us. Besides we don't have many pie stalls and burger vans any more.
Let's go the full hog (lol) and get Ralphy in as well, one chuckle brother is no good without the other.

I am lost for words. RL is on the decline, combine that with them throwing money around like confetti at ex players with no idea how to grow the sport, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see why the sport is on the ropes. For 275k you would have thought they could get someone good.

I think you're overlooking his early life in Buttershaw where he was, at one time, as I understand it, a Bulls fan. He does go 'native' though, in whichever environment he finds himself.

A little like Harry Gration from Look North, he too was a Bulls' season ticket holder, but now has the feign the look of a man in torment when his "beloved" York City get relegated. Never mentions the Bulls, of course, nor any other team in the championship - along with ever other reporter on Look North. Damn then all.

Gration really gets up my nose, quick to forget his roots and self promoting. Prehistoric and vaudeville... sums him up for me!

Wasn't he employed by the RFL in the not too distant past?

Briefly. He fell out with Maurice Lindsay.