We won't get half a million for him.

Warrington have been in a similar position in the past where they have lost quality young players so they'll obviously be happy that the shoe is on the other foot. Maybe a few years down the line we could be the team poaching talent from other clubs.

I'll wish him well, can't say I'm looking forward to seeing him in a Warrington shirt though if he does end up there. I'm not selfish enough to want him to fail as we need quality internationals coming through.

Offiah should be banned from commenting on the subject in the media - he really has made a farce of the whole thing and rarely have I seen speculation where the agent gets as much coverage as the player in question.

Hope he stays with you but it does not help with the silly comments Martin is coming out with.

Let him go and treat the whole thing as a great business deal as far as Salford are concerned - paid £2.50 for him, sold him for £250,000

It may be that his contract at Warrington starts next season, but our rebuilding process would start now. He would no longer has a place in the side and we start to rebuild with the team we have, with a view to signing more.

Nothing personal Ritchie, but your agent can explain that to you.

First priority is to secure Ratchford and Adamson - in fact all this publicity around Myler has done us a favour ( thank God Offiah isnt representing either of them).

Let him go, if he his not prepared to accept a big offer from us, it looks like we been had! We cannot at Salford build a team around one player, we also have two quality half backs in the squad.

Lets look at the cold facts, great signing by Salford, sell him for big bucks & lets get a couple of good young players or stengthen the squad in the centres where we need too.
We are not a Wigan, leeds, St Helens or Warrington we need to move on.

I have heard the debate about building a team around him, the problem with a club like ours one injury to our key player & we are in the , look at Willie Talau he was going to fill in at our problem area at centre? out for the season.

Well done Salford for moving quickly to offer him a bigger contract but do not be fools, if we can sign a few more like him & sell for big bucks it will be the quickest route to strengthen out team, we are no different to Widnes.

Finally I would prefer him to stay but the it looks like the big clubs have already snapped him up, lets just make sure we make them pay for the talent while we can.

I have a couple of points to make on this.

1. This whole farce (as offiah ahs made it) just goes to show how the franchise system coupled with the salray cap is not working and never will. Salford are never going to have the amount of money to spend as others have and so will not be able to pay players as much as other clubs. Thus any promising young players we have will get poached by other clubs who can afford to offer them the earth. So what's changed? The only difference is that we won't go down this season. They'll wait until the next round of licences and then kick us out because we "have not offered anything to super league". The salary cap should be a flat figure applicable to all clubs instead of some clubs being allowed to spend more than others (and in some cases still go over it and get away with it). Until we have more equality all that will happen is the big clubs will get stronger and the smaller clubs will continue to struggle and super league will continue to be battled out etween the same old clubs nd the sport will die however hard they try to expand the game into other areas.

2. Offiah as someone has already mentioned is only acting like any other agent would. I agree. They are all scumbags who exploit players and clubs for their own gain. They hold clubs to ransome and talk b****ocks to press in order to line their own pockets. Get rid of all of the parasites as far as I am concerned.

Chrismum

This year the salary cap is a flat amount - the bit where you were limited in what you could spend was scapped so it is now a level playing field.

The reason we don't spend the full cap is simply that the club doesn't have the money - it's been argued at length on various other threads, but essentially JW and the other directors bail the club out every year with loans that stand no chance of ever being repaid - without that we'd be a part time club and no chance whatever of staying in SL

Must say it all looks a bit bleak at present

Barton flyer! what looks bleak, Myler going, the lack of Stadium progress, lack of money or all of them?

If that was the case, he would have re-signed for Widnes.

PS

I hope this isn't a sign of things to come, transfer 'bids' being conducted through the media. It really is quite unsavoury, although all the clubs have been dignified/silent, there has only been one entity that has been vocal in the media; Offiah.

I would imagine he will be as welcome as a fart in a lift at the Willows, regardless of what happens.

So if its to be Warrington why not arrange a loan swap now with Monaghan as he will be miffed as well at the moment (even though it looked like he was going home).

Apologies I stand corrected. i was not aware of this. I stand by my comments regarding agents though.

I think it's essentially the stadium fiasco. Quite clearly the whole plan for SCR was based upon a new stadium, attracting greater income which would lead to a greater interest in the club, new investors and all round scope for improvement.

On that basis the Willows was sold last year and a lease-back deal apparently put in place - quite a good move, or [iwould have been[/i if the new stadium had actually materialised - realise some cash in, have a limited outlay based on the planned move - everyone's a winner - BUT no-one figured in the credit crunch and the near collaps of the banking industry etc etc - So now if you ask yourself what is the business plan, and where is our increase in gates & income going to come from I think answers are rather hard to see.

That's what looks bleak !!

Myler would benefit hugley by signing for us.

Bigger club
Better players
better fans
Better Stadium
World class and England coach

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Can't fault Offiah on trying to futher his career