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.

There's a few things that could tempt Burgess. World cup, olympic games, 6 nations. He could play in a number of positions as well, flanker, number 8, inside and outside centre. Everyone keeps mentioning his family, they didn't make him stay at Bradford.

Reading some of the South fans are writing about him he'll be closer to leaving than he was a week a go.

Then again he could be tempted to stay in the biggest most challenging rugby (sic) competition in the world, living on the beach in the best city in the world, enjoying superstar status in that city and hob nobbing with Hollywood A listers.

Or he could play in the mud in winter in England in front of a few thousand fans in the bright lights of Leicester or bath at a game he is I'll equipped to play.

He could indeed, but as much as I love Sydney (and I'm glad we both agree it's better than Perth) it ain't the best city in the world.

It ain't the best city in Australia either.