1. Can you name any? How many players have transferred for a fee of 200k+?
2. As above. How many 'international class' union players have transferred for 400k+?
3. Cas clearly thought they would win, or wouldn't have spent 100k on legal fees to fight the case. They have made sure they have received a fee they feel they are entitled to.
4. Maybe. But the precedents are there already with players who have crossed codes whilst under contract. It wouldn't have created a new precedent, it would have maintained the status quo that a fee has to be paid for a player under contract.
5. If the set a target of 500k they are stupid.

As above, if the same thing happens again the precedent is already set. Fees have to be paid for players under contract. It wouldn't be Cas' fault if a club does not have the money to enforce it.

Regarding Clarke surely it doesn't need the clubs to cooperate to get him out. A simple RFL ban would do. The NRL has suspended or banned dodgy agents in the past and other sports have no problem getting rid of undesirable elements with long or permanent bans, eg horse racing, without any legal come back.

Why is it up to Cas to defend the sport? It's up to Cas to defend themselves, it's up to the RFL to defend the sport.

I can't imagine it would be too difficult to just start adding clauses into contracts from now on that explicitly protect clubs against this kind of thing so it's not really a case of open season on all RL players.

It's not open season anyway and no other clauses are needed.
Fees have always had to be paid for players under contract.
Sale tried it on in the hope Cas would whimper and give up. Cas didn't and have received an acceptable fee.
The issue is that it seems players from RL can be registered to play RU before the fee is either agreed or set in court. As such, we can't stop any player leaving for RU. However, it wouldn't have been in the court's power to change this anyway.
I think the RFU should not have allowed Sale to register Solomona until it was clear Sale had agreed a fee with his former club. But this is for the RFL to negotiate, not Castleford, and not even the court could enforce this.

Great outcome for us IMO. It was more a matter of principle for mine, so the money is a bonus. Plus, its a lot of money for a club like us. We are not a cash rich club and so this is a massive boost for us financially. The only thing that disappoints me about the whole thing is that not one of Sale, Clarke or the Snake have issued any sort of apology. That would have meant a lot but, hey, not to be. Onwards and upwards.

I'm just glad Eden looks highly likely to break his record pretty much straight away. Wipe his stain of a name from the record books.

Then in a few years it will hopefully be Denny who???

Predictable anti-Cas bilge. Crack on

Oh do shut up. If the sport was happy to fund Cas' legal action than maybe you'd have a point. But they weren't, and you don't.



There is a legal precedent set - because Sale settled and in doing so admit they were wrong. If the case had gone to court and Cas won, that still wouldn't stop the scenario you suggest because the Championship club still couldn't afford the legal fees.

Exactly. The RFL stated on numerous occasions that they had given cas their full backing. However, at the point where we had spent 70k on legal fees Steve gill confirmed that they hadn't contributed a penny to the cause.

I'd love to know what they have done....

They could have dealt with Andy Clarke by now....

That bit says it all.

It's a classic hey!



. Now, lets say that a Union club comes in and signs Johnstone while he's injured, behind Wakefields back. Would Wakefield have the b@lls to take things through? I can virtually guarantee that if they waved even £100K at them Carter would snap their hand off!

Decent result all in all for Cas plus they have hardly missed him anyway have they?