I think people have an inflated idea about transfer fees in RL. Every Cas fan was quoting silly figures for Chase, but the actual figure was considerably less than any of them thought.

My guess would be that it's the case with the Hock valuation. The real figure is probably a lot less.

The eels was paying 250k aus so i guess wigan wouldn't accept any less than that.

1. How does the poster know that?
2. How does A$250,000 become £200,000 when the exchange rate is about A$1 = 55p?
3. How do we know Parramatta were offering that much?
4. How do we know Wigan wouldn't accept less when the Parramatta deal fell through but they still wanted him off the wage bill?
5. When will we realise that "people in the know" usually aren't?

rlParamatta dodge a bullet in not signing Hockrl


' undisclosed fee '
Fee's were paid for Chase , Smith & Hock.
I doubt the speculative amounts bandied about on the inter-web bare any relation to the factual amounts actually agreed .

their departing clubs fans would not want to imagine them leaving for reasonable amounts.

Dubair
Looking forward to Wigan paying tax on the income stream from all these massive transfer fees. Bet the clubs accountants are loving all this money they will be asked to account for by the tax man.

The most important part of your post is the word was as you know things change like a players value and players agreeing to a contract that states he will not speak to other sports and NRL clubs for a set period but things do change

Oh how we love the experts

Ow god the chips are flipping massive it seems.

not really sure what the rate would be, have any idea? but i wont worry there is no chance wigan will loose money any time soon. yeah world record transfer fees will change things buddy.

Well you've got me on that comment, unless of course you are competing in the contest for the best non sequitur?

Well that's me convinced. Has it never occurred to you that people who know how much money changes hands in such deals don't spend their time on internet forums grand standing about it?

You, like the rest of us, know nothing.

How do you know that? have you got him/her on surveillance and tapped his/her phone lines?

Shouldn't you be replying to your own posts Mike87 or whatever you're called now?