He's off to Leeds supposedly...

www.leighcenturions.com/news/978

www.leighcenturions.com/news/978

Wow. No wonder people are leaving Leigh with management like that.

"The club will not be commenting further on this" Followed by " the statement continues", followed by "the statement adds", followed by "the statement concludes".

Good lord - that statement is extremely crass.

It's a weird statement but at least they are keeping fans in the loop.

It's so obviously written by an angry, red faced man trying hard to talk about everyone in the third person. It reads like he was going for a kind of telegram style but he hasn't really pulled it off.

It's a bizarre and unprofessional statement. If I were a member of the Leigh board of directors I'd be embarrassed to have that statement attributed to me.

Or Vicky Pollard.

I can't see Leeds signing him. Wakefield, Cas or Hull kr maybe.

What I don't understand, with sporting contracts, is whether there is a differentiation between the players right to resign from their current employer (with a stated notice period) and the clubs hold on that player regarding their player registration.

So perhaps a player can just resign, but a club is unlikely to release their registration until they are either compensated to do so, or the original duration of the player's contract ends.

Don't the RFL have to approve any changes in registrations anyway?
Are Leigh players all full professional players or are some part time? Just thinking if Ryan's original contract was a part time based contract then it could be possible to have a notice period in there I suppose- if further changes have been "extensions" and the original contract not changed.

Leigh are nothing more than a Sunday pub side playing semi pro rugby but paying SL salaries to their players
That club statement is a complete and utter joke and whoever made it should be made to apologise for divulging this information for the public to view

Leigh seem like a club that is akin to North Korea in that it loves to flex it's muscles every now and again without actually getting anywhere above where it is presently

You are more or less correct. Most contracts do have a clear and stipulated resignation period. Six months is usually the maximum considered reasonable, even if no time period is explicitly stated in the contract.
However, if there is no resignation period in the contract, the employee only needs to give statutory notice. This is based in the length of time employed, ranging from one week to twelve weeks. My assumption is that Ryan Brierely didn't have an explicit clause in his contract allowing him to leave, but does not have a contractual notice period and is therefore able simply to give statutory notice, in his case of four weeks.

However, you are right about his registration. Usually, by signing a contract players agree that their registration is held by a certain club for a period of time. They may well resign, but even then they do not "own" their own registration and therefore cannot play for anyone else.