Or....
Is it more simple than that!?

We have 2 options!
(a)
Knee jerk panic buy a HB from a limited stock for 2015
(b)
Get an off-the-record deal sorted that promises you a contract the year following from one of the best current player in his position on the planet and sit on it for 12 month.

Our history shows we have done this on at least two other occasions proven.
Just a fortnight ago one such deal was confirmed...Clark.
Andrew Johns was nailed on to come back to Warrington after finishing his contract at Knights. Moran was vocal upon the fact he was coming to Warrington, Johns was then instrumental to quickly get us to sign Monas as a replacement.

It's not at all that far fetched.

So we are getting Cronk for 2016 season?

Have your sources told you this or is this just your speculation and reading between the lines?

Having people tell me this is a done deal (people that work for the club!), something tells me they're expecting a drop in season ticket sales.

RLW 'Mole' has mentioned it again tonight, however to be honest I don't rate him as highly as some on here. His scoops tend to be just putting something out before the embargo, he gets as much wrong as he does right.

Guess we can look forward to the same sort of post about "until its officially announced I'm not going to believe it" that we had about Daryl Clark for the next 12 months.

No not at all....I never said we were getting him.
I said someone has made the right noises about him, and he is far more creditable than the Mole.
Yed got me thinkin about the GOB u'turn I said had happened...why?
I tried to reason why within the space of less than a couple of weeks GOB is loaned out for a season and then he's not?
I tried to rationalise it by saying in one weekend he had probably shown enough in his form to merit it, but how could that be? It just doesn't make sense.
He's been here for some years and TS would know him inside out.
A promise of a big name halfback in 12 month does make sense why this reversal happened.

I don't say it's Cronk, it could be someone else. But that U'turn has to be significant.

Well Storm are out of the playoffs so if it is true, you'd imagine it'll be announced soon.

If we get him for next season I'll run through the centre of Warrington in a mankini.

Not next season Vespid_Wire..2016

I looked again Vespid_Wire it seem Cronk is on contract until the end of 2016.
So that's 2 years.
It looks less likely if that is the case.

That's great, investigative journalism. But what about the rumours the club have bought the rest of his contract out to bring him over for next year?

Not heard that one

Where does buying out two years of a player's contract fit in on the salary cap. Which season would that money count against on the cap?

I don't think it would, although I could be wrong, I would expect it to be classed as a transfer fee. I would think that only his annual salary plus bonuses to be taken in to account for salary cap calculation.

I can't cope with all these rumours, counter-rumours and speculation. It's like being in an episode of Eastenders (not that I'd know, Corrie man myself).

It was much easier in the old days. If it wasn't on the back page of the guardian and reported by Mike Parsons, it probably wasn't true. If you wanted 100% endorsement you'd just corner a player in any town centre pub, pint in hand, drunkenly prod them in the chest and demand to know who we were signing/when they'd be fit/the design of next years kit etc. before asking them to autograph a beer mat.