Mike Ford's just told the BBC that Burgess will stay at Bath, out of all the union people he at least seems to want Sam there and knows that he is a forward and not a centre. Either that or it's all just a ruse to get a bigger transfer fee of course.

It will be a shame if he doesn't come back to League, however, I reckon they might be giving him the 6 nations carrot for the spring and saying "give us another chance, if the 6 nations doesnt work for you then make a decision then"....

He needs an off season back in Rugby League, as for me, he has lost a lot of muscle

I think its the latter, and i can't see any Rugby League club prepared to pay the money Bath might want to buy out his contract.

he is going to trot out that same old stuff when asked though isn't he?, but until Burgess comes out and confirms it himself then it is still as up in the air as yesterday and he is doing absolutely nothing to quash these rumours himself right now is he? all he has to do is come out and say, look i'm seeing it through and that's that.

Ford said on Radio Leeds just after the world cup that they were talking to Burgess about extending his contract. When you listened to the interview what Ford actually said was that he hadn't spoken to Sam for 2 weeks but they had been talking about it before the WC.

The Sydney press is starting to suggest his return is getting more likely: www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/sout ... klpqp.html Still seems speculation though.

The Sydney press is starting to suggest his return is getting more likely: www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/sout ... klpqp.html Still seems speculation though.

If he's spotted in the crowd or on the big screen at the KC Stadium on Sunday, I hope the whole ground gives him a few rousing choruses of "There's only one Sam Burgess..."

Agree. He will be back most likely.

What's the latest? RL folk seem convinced he's coming back to RL, UK press suggesting he's staying in Union. Suppose all will start to become clearer tomorrow.

His stance of staying quiet would suggest to me that he wants to go. If Mike Ford's version of events were true and Burgess had been telling him how much he is looking forward to returning to Bath then I think Burgess would've could out and echoed that view.

He might well stay in RU but it'll only be because a transfer fee couldn't be agreed upon, not because he wants to stay.

I think he'll stay in RU, but the "UK press" would have no idea how big the NRL is in Sydney, so probably find it impossible to believe that any player could even consider leaving RU for RL.

The idea that as professional journalists they'd be so wilfully ill-informed is depressing because it's probably true.

He's staying in RU, in fact it's more damaging to him for him to leave now