Burgess could play a few positions in RU with ease.

And if he's doing it to get a bigger deal with Souths then why has he signed an extension last season?

The Daily Telegraph of Sydney has a news reliability rate of less than 50%.

Sam Burgess is living in a dream situation where he is right now: living near the beautiful beach in Coogee, with all his brothers in house or nearby, his mum nearby, getting a good salary and lots of prestige publicity as a local media star. He so loves the Sydney beach side lifestyle that he is applying for Australian citizenship (presumably he will remain an English citizen and thus become a dual citizen), and for that he needs to be resident in Australia for several more years.

He would be mad to give it all up for the uncertainties of rugby union.

I'm sure Union could sign him. But at £2million a season to drag him away. What would they have to offer South Sidney??? £4 -6 million?

Depends if he reaches an agreement, they might let him go if he comes back to the club after the World Cup.

Alongside inglis he is their marquee player, the person who sells memberships and makes the money. Yes of course they'd let him just go for a couple of years in the hope he'd come back two years older and a lot less fitter and skilled, lol.

If he wanted to go they'd reach an agreement, there's no point keeping an unhappy player.

I'd love for him to sign a contract live on bbc sky sports etr with all the RFU fanfare, stand up rip up the contract and say I'm not playing kick n clap, it's e. Then lift up his shirt with 100% league 0% union written on his cheat.

I'm sure they would, for a few million.

Yeah they'd get three times the current world record for him.

He could walk out on a 2 year deal and pay off less, bit like SBW who paid $750,000 for a four year deal.

Fortunately Burgess isn't a to$$er like $BW so your hypothetical is pointless.

Not to mention union salary cap of 5mill pounds so how are they going to pay him $2mill?

Typical news ltd BS

That he could buy himself out? I'm sure he'd do it the right way but he could that.

Of course the salary's are BS, but why hasn't Burgess denied it yet?

They always try and rain on our parade when it's the start of a new SL season. Can't stand us having any publicity.

Absolutely no way Sam would play that game after finding nirvana with his brothers at South Sydney.

He's probably still laughing. No doubt when the chortles are over he will don a Laury daly tshirt with his true thoughts about rugby union.

That's just for the clubs, international players get money on top, that's obviously where the money is (in international squads that is). Jonny Wilkinson and Martin Johnson are millionaires I assume, possibly multi-millionaires.

Anyway, Burgess would be a centre in 15's, and their ruck is a disaster zone, the training they do for it is stupid, have you seen them? They get down into basically a press-up position and lead with their shoulder to push a tackle bag out of the way, it's stupid. And in the actual game itself, you don't know what's going to happen from one match to the next, how the ref is going to ref it, and what he sees etc.