Rangi's case might be groundless but more generally with regards to mental illness in my experience it's the employer who disengages from the employee not the other way round.

According to the CBI genuine medical reasons are the biggest cause of absenteeism at 87.5%

I can't fault HH for that but isn't that every players duty to their club? Anyway I haven't criticised him myself but I'm not going to jump to the defence of a lad that:-

1. Doesn't want to play for Salford anymore.
2. Couldn't resist making a comment to the media about having the last laugh against the club I support.

Have we not been laughed at enough over the past two years?

corrected it for you.

I disagree. Nobody was laughing at Salford when we were playing in county cup finals or getting to three challenge cup semi's against all the odds. OK granted we have never had a champion side in that period but I always felt we had an honest team and we punched above our weight. (For a city that's not really endorsed RL in big numbers since the 1930's and late 60's for 2-3 years) You only have to look at the decline of clubs like Oldham, Swinton, Rochdale and Leigh over the past few decades to appreciate we did better than similar local clubs. I also think supporters of other clubs didn't have the same dislike for us like some do now. A lot of people simply want Salford to fail and to laugh at us because of all the money spent recently.