Gets more wrong than right that mon, seems to just chuck sh*t at the wall til something sticks! Channel 9 however reporting that he's in "high level" negotiations with Souths but they also mention he would be interested in Leeds. Would love him back in Super League.

Not sure if it's still valid (even if it was in the first place) but, when he signed for Souths we were told that should he return to British Rugby League Bradford have first option.

I would p in my pants if it's an actual thing and Leeds ignored it to sign him. Leading to a protracted and damaging court case.

As if Bradford would be able to pay him. All he has to say to Bradford is 'Can you pay me?' When they say 'No', he is free to choose whichever club he wants.

Nah they'd be due some compo at least.

You wouldn't want to lose another one, surely?

Please can we stop all this speculation about Sam Burgess returning to Rugby League.
Its not going to happen unless a Rugby League club comes up with mega bucks

Is Chris Caisley still his manager?

Be interesting to see how the negotiation went between him and Hetherington if they are speaking to each other.

But he's not under that contract anymore. He left Souths (obviously) so the only things that stand are in his contract with Bath. It's like Mike Cooper, he had some after-two-years-back-to-Wire thing in his contract but that's gone now as he's signed a new contract.

I believe he is. I hadn't considered the implications though.

Are you sure Omar didn't sell that option for £5 and a bag of magic beans?

If he did there won't be a record of it anywhere.

Allegedly, of course.

"First option" is usually actually "first and last option". Which means Burgess would first have to negotiate with Bradford, but then could explore other options. If he than agrees terms with another team (eg Leeds) Bradford would have "last option" to match the terms being offered there, in which case Burgess would have to sign for them.

That's assuming there *is* such a clause and it isn't invalidated by Bradford not being in the top league. Or whether Bradford is even the same corporate entity as the Bradford Burgess left, which would also invalidate any clause.

even on sky web sight they say in OZ they are sorting out is contract so it might be true he is coming back to league

no matter how painful it is for bath, if sam burgess has told them he is done with union and wants to go back to league then there is no point them keeping an unhappy player.

There isn't. Sam has also shown that contracts mean squat to him, so waving his Bath contract in his face won't mean anything to him. Having said that I think he'll stay at Bath at least for this contract, as he'll be desperate not to be seen as a failure.