I think the question was aimed at the cost and impact on the cap if he came early and played this season, a proportion of his salary?

Cheers ur.
I don't think he will.
But if he did then we obviously have room in the cap and goes someway in suggesting we have been under cap all season.

So the ridiculous "marquee" player status could be frittered away on a player with mixed reviews who would not even have warranted a second glance 12 months ago. I don't think Rugby League needs to elevate also rans to god like creatures because they are Australian. For whatever reasons we've had our fingers burnt once already with an under playing southern hemisphere player , do we need to take that risk again on a player whose career seems to have more questions than answers.

Sandow is a magician ,Joey johns admits he loves watching him play ,he is unpredictable and will make mistakes but, his kicking game is far better than what we have at the moment ,he can create tries from nothing ,if he plays to his potential ,he will be a wire legend

It certainly was. I thought the rule had changed in terms of a full salary now had to be included as we now use a rolling cap system. Back when we signed Joey the rules were different, we could afford in cap terms to pay him a fortune as he was only here for a few games.

If it is full salary, and as the marquee rule is not yet in place, his full salary (I picked £240k out of the air) would count on the cap. Pretty sure we don't have that much cap space to spare...?

It was in the guardian a week or two ago that said we don't have any cap space as we are up to the limit. We couldn't even a afford a loan or two, so no chance of space for him!

The cap changed to a live rolling type system a few years ago. Not sure how it worked, with Joel it was the old system and we paid hicks off before the season started so that money did not count on the cap. That freed up space for Monaghan. We would need to de-register or get rid of some players to get Sandow in but I am not sure you can do that.

I don't believe we are at full cap, and has been so for a couple of seasons, if not by much.
Furthermore TS said there is money available to bring in someone if needs be, so who should I believe, TS or the guardian?

Sandow is a cracking player and one of the most exciting half backs in Aus. Even average half backs who can't get a game in the NRL have had big impacts in Super League.

Look at Dobson, Dureu, Walsh etc. - they were nobodies over there.

As for Asotasi, he hadn't been a decent player since his 2008 injury. We should have known that.

Where there's a will,there's a way

Would a way around not be to simply get him to sign a 3 month contract on Laitwaites wages and deregister JL for now.
His season is cooked anyway.

You could de-register laithwaite and pay sandow his pittance on the promise that this shortfall would be made up next season seeing as a marquee we will be able to pay him whatever Simon Moran decides. I'd be confident of a double should he pop up in the next few weeks.

Anyone criticising the signing of Sandow needs to give their head a wobble.

He is the very definition of a marquee signing.

Some people would moan if we signed thurston, graham and Johnson.

Too friggin right, I will go ape shaat if we got them!

What do we want another lawyer firm for?

Good one "rubber" ... worth getting up in the middle of the night for that one.