Keith Mason has won his case for unfair dismissal against the Giants.
Am i right in understanding that his salary element of any award will have to come off the Giants Salary cap allowance over the period of his contract that would still have been in place.

I am sure it happened with another player but cannot remember the details

Sir Ken Davy will stay strong despite this injustice.

Much like he always has.

Joe Calzaghe a boxer,just likes to stand there and knock ten bells out of another idiot,why would anyone need to respect that.I don't respect boxing,a pile of e.

Was this judge on crack cocaine or just a naive fool.

Stay strong Sir Ken the Fartown fans(those who do not pack their season tickets in following the slightest disappointment) are resolutely behind you as ever.

surely the bigger question is how was mason on 95K a year :O

well done Keef. This will cost the Giants 300K. Bye bye Thlewis ?

and the mods on here snipe about anything but not slandering a judge? :S

from reading the articles and obviously no one has read the emails the club sent i think he was in the right, i don't like Keith Mason as a player or person but there is no doubt he was pushed out for no reason and if this was danny brough your club wouldn't have said a peep about it.

Also there is no way kopzack is only earning 55k and fielden is on 45k... just shows how stup the cap really is if they believe figures like that.

Wasn't much of the £300k something to do with him being owed a testimonal at the end of his contract? If so, I don't believe that those costs would be part of any salary cap calculations - unless I've missed something?

167k he was awarded

He quoted £60k as earning from his testimonial. He suggested these would be that high as Mickey Rourke and Joe Calzagi were offering to organise events.

The most interesting part is the T&A have reported that, under oath, Thewlis said that Kopzcak agreed a deal with the Giants on 8th August. Before he refused the TUPE on 6th September...

I have a feeling that this is going to become very, very messy in the next few weeks.

Dubairl, please can you tell us how much Kopczak and Fielden are earning ?, it would be interesting to know.

a lot more than 55k for kopzack easy, one of the games best young forwards and stood up well against the Aussies. fielden maybe but still don't believe he would be only earning 44k he might as well retire.

Wern't you on about slander in a previous post? Accusing someone of lying while under oath would probably come in to that...

Nah, its already been dealt with. The RFL made Huddersfield pay Bradford 20k in compensation.

Lets say im a SL team with 250 k left on the cap this year

As it stands what stopping me offering him a six year contract at 250k a season.

and having a word with the player ...

"Look Benji after 3 years well sack you unfairly and you can claim unfair dismissal and get paid the rest plus costs so you'll really be getting 500k a season"

Would the sacked years still count on the cap?

If you were being very cute you'd just back load the deal.