You could well be right. He is a stand out player at this level. He is in a good well drilled Leigh side this season, and has IMO come up trumps.

I wouldn't mind if we (Widnes) signed him TBH, maybe chance our arms for the first year.

Riddy, Goulden and Nanyn are off to Swinton.

Well they won't need to go very far if we share grounds next year.

Well if we can't keep these players from going to a club whose average crowd is only a quarter of ours then there absolutely no hope for us. We must really be in the brown stuff financially. Champ1 here we come. If we can't offer players more money than swinton then there is no hope whatsoever.

people would be surprised at how little we pay Derek there are at least 12 of our first team squad who are on little or no contract money and I would hazard a guess that figure would be higher next year, the figures don't add up to us paying out too much if any contracts without a benefactor or any income steams.

Meaning thah Nanyn will be Shyte, not Alright next season I suppose


Think the problem at the mo is that we can't offer much until we know where we stand - £100k for winning the grand final would deffo help negotiations.

Where did you get that figure from Col? last time I enquired a team had to win the Trains cup, league leaders pennant (or whatever it is) AND the GF plus the cost of getting to Toulouse to get the full £100K.

We have had enough Bull recently to generate all the steams we require.

Fred, I'm reliably informed that the 'prize' for winning the GF is £75k - with £25k going to the team that wins the League.

That will help us big style wont it.

I would imagine that players agents are very busy right now .

They've been busy for weeks. The difference is they can be open about it now!

Time isn't really on Riddy's side as a halfback moving up to SL, but if he's given the chance then he'd be daft to turn it down or he'd spend the rest of his career wondering "what if?" - good luck to him, I say.

Nobody has answered how swinton can offer more than us. Especially as most of the big contracts are gone With the time it is taking to sort out the finances the players will be gone. Its admirable they are taking the time to do this but can someone remind Trevor we need players

They've got a benefactor with deep pockets. We don't have one. That's the way I see it anyroad.

Is there really something in this swinton thing, when I read it I thought my leg was being pulled, if they do go there then I really fear for the future of our club. (Cue titanic music)