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| Quote Fatbelly="Fatbelly"My thanks to Mickey for all that he has done for us in the P&B.
Im very disappointed that Mickey is leaving us but fully understand his reasons.
He has to do the very best that he can for himself and his family.
Good Luck to you Mickey and thanks for the great memories.'"
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| He was going to Leigh at the end of the season so don't understand the best for his family bit. Loyalty works both ways - reading between the lines he could've shown us enough to see the season out. Poor.
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| Quote shinymcshine="shinymcshine"Have you been to Leigh by any chance, pending changing your username to "Leigh Fanatic III" ?'"
Leigh would have been easier, at least I wouldn't have had to contend with the SNP!!
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| Quote charlie caroli="charlie caroli"Lefty I'm very disappointed with your views on the subject and your views of the Scrum -Half and the way you describe him, is totally wrong by the way.Mickey is a very nice bloke who wanted to finish his career at his home town club, and felt an early release could help us into SL,nowt wrong with that, you may be a SL club but it doesn't give you the right to do whatever you want , in years to come who's to say Chris Hill won't want to return to Leigh?We are a very family orientated club who look after all our players.As for calling us Leighthers
you are totally wrong we are Leythers ,LOUD AND PROUD as you will find out in June,see you then.'"
The way that I described our Scrum half of 30 years ago, was the nicest thing I could think to call him. Anything else would've broken the swear filter.
Higham signed a contract. He should've kept to that contract. That bond happens in SL, Championship or wherever. That's the "right" of the contract.
I hope you're happy in Ley, and not Leigh 
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| Quote Paul2812="Paul2812"The interview on Boots'n'All with Paul Rowley was interesting to watch. He criticised Tony Smith for the way he'd handled the situation, but said Moran had dealt with it in an adult manner.
He also said there was no wrong doing on his behalf and insinuated that MH had contacted Leigh about transferring, as have other Warrington players.'"
Eddie said that Warrington have paid compensation to London for Dwyer who's now back with a extended contract (missed earlier post), there's no show without punch, Clarkey reckons Wire will win on Friday but with all the turmoil within the wire, who knows.
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| I am a little disappointed that he didn't see out his contract with us and how the press report we have handled it. His choice to go and he has to be accountable for that but as a club we seem to be giving a mixed message with Moran apparently handling it well and Smith not. A messy saga but will be yesterday's news tomorrow.
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| Quote lefty goldblatt="lefty goldblatt"The way that I described our Scrum half of 30 years ago, was the nicest thing I could think to call him. Anything else would've broken the swear filter.
Higham signed a contract. He should've kept to that contract. That bond happens in SL, Championship or wherever. That's the "right" of the contract.
I hope you're happy in Ley, and not Leigh
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Lefty I'm extremely happy in Leigh or Leyth as some owd us call it,I wouldn't live anywhere else , well unless it was Blackpool of course.I feel so sad you have this opinion of the Legendary man who played at 7 ,I know him very well and he's a true Gentleman,who is always ready to do anything he can for anybody,he has been to watch Leigh around 8 times this season ,BOTH home and away and calls himself an adopted Leyther  Yes he likes a pint ,but nowt like you describe.Im sure you must have had a bitter experience with him to be so negative towards him,I attended a game this season with him ,and we went in the Lord Rodney before the game ,he posed for many pics , chatted and signed autographs never refusing anybody.
One last question.?Would you have the same opinion of Gazza or George Best?
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| Quote Fantastic Mr Cat="Fantastic Mr Cat"What was said initially was that mickey, his agent and leigh all cooked up the contract offer, then mickey and agent went to Moran to ask for his release withouth bothering to tell the head of coaching and performance or whatever title Smith has. Lack of courtesy on mickey's behalf.
The cloud aspect as mentioned? Well, Bert apparently saw his booty as he was left out of the grand final team, however ratch was impeccable in the lead up to that after bert got rattled by widnes.
Carvell? difference in opinion over contract lengths? you'd have to say it was the right call based on his lack of form and moving around last year and injuries, sometimes the call is to let them go 12 month early rather than 12 month too long, we've had that with other players.
Kohe-love? found out on teletext. Can't argue with that one.'"
Hodgson wasn't fit for the Grand Final, he hadn't trained for weeks. The week before the GF O'Brien had been training at full-back until Ratchford passed a late fitness test.
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| Dear oh dear, what a mess.
First off, I hope young Dwyer seizes this opportunity and lives up to his undoubted potential, starting this week and culminating in a MoM QF winning performance against Leigh/Ley/Whatever. No hard feelings eh chaps, all's fair in love and war including breaking contracts.
Secondly, I fail to see how any blame can be attributed to Warrington or TS in particular. TS was clearly upset by the way Leigh & HIgham and his agent have engineered the situation and justifiably so. Some of us in the game still enjoy the kind of gentlemanly conduct that seperates us from certain other professional sports, but clearly such morality is on the wane or totally non-existent in certain areas.
Finally, I hope everyone down Hilton Village or whatever you call it these days, will be equally understanding when you fail to gain a place in SL and Ryan Brierley's agent has a chat in his ear when bigger clubs come-a-knocking. Whatever contract has his signature on is as irrelavent as the one Higham has been encouraged to break.
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| So the chain of events go,
Warrington reduce Mickey's contract offer 50% for 2016/1 year deal.
Mickey declines.
Smith takes it personally.
Leigh sign Mickey for 2016/17.
Penky gets injured and is out for the season.
Leigh owner approaches Warrington owner about a possible early release so Warrington can chase other player & Leigh get cover.
Warrington owner agrees.
Smith finds out during training session last week, loses the plot and sends Mickey home infront of all the players.
Mickey asks for meeting with Smith & is made to wait without training until this week. (hence being pulled from CC game)
Appointment made with Smith & Moran Monday
Mickey is a leyther.
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| Quote Binosh="Binosh"Warrington reduce Mickey's contract offer 50% for 2016/1 year deal.'"
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