He is probably trying to reassure his current coach and supporters that He is completely focused on the task in hand which is to win the 2013 Kingstone Press Championship Grand Final.

However Sam would be better advised just to keep quiet.

Sam was in the Fev club house when the news broke on twitter. He was asked by many Fev fans including myself if it was true and he told everyone it wasn't true.

He said its an option but he is playing for a contract at Fev. He's also posted in the Fev's Facebook page that its not true.

I suppose he could be lying, but if he is it seems strange that he would go out of his way get fev fans against him again when he could just easily say that everything was sorted before his loan move and there's nowt he could do.

Not sure why everyone seems to think his registration is locked away at the RL. Is it there with Finns Fax contract

would you like me to copy and paste the chat i had with him last night? cause from what he was saying he ain't a leigh player yet....

How many times has this happened? Wish we had signed Chris Hill and Sam Tompkins. Heard they are cracking prop forwards. Future England Internationals.

And Sam Hopkins as well :O0 haha

League Express

"Paul Rowley has confirmed that Sam Barlow has signed a two-year deal with them."

"The signing is likely to be officially confirmed by Leigh through a press release at the end of the season"

No mention of announcing the news on a forum.

This might turn out to be a very good signing by Leigh, but has there been a legitimate explanation for the timing of the official announcement (and I don't mean "it was all over the forums and League Express"!)? If not, it beggars belief that they didn't get Barlow on board with the announcement before going ahead. You want your marquee signings to be saying the right things when they are officially unveiled, not "It's all lies", as Barlow has said. He's available because he's been at loggerheads with his previous club, but it makes it look as if he's at loggerheads with his new club before he has even joined them.

As I said

TROUBLE, not as good as he thinks he is, and not as clever it would seem

hes probably now been offered more money by Fev or someone else and is trying to get out of it . I know Andy is telling the truth I believe him and our club 100%

He told you on facebook !
I could set an account up as Sam Barlow

Must confess I am disappointed with how this has been handled and trust we learn from it.

Yes absolutely. It's a PR disaster in my book.

Someone from the BOM should phone Sam and ask him wether he has had a change of heart. Should he say yes then just let him go to wherever he wants to. No point in having any player at our club who isn't going to do his best.

Not even played a game for Leigh yet and already stiring things up. Maybe he is edging his bets.............

Seriously though if he is actually allowed to play for Leigh by the time the new season rolls around you can expect him to play well for you for a few games, then you can expect him knocking on the coaches door telling them a SL club is in for him and wanting to negotiate his already inflated salary, and then finally when he dosnt get his own way expect his performances to decrease in quality quite quickly.

The question people must ask is why would Fax release a player, who many uniformed people think is one of the best props/second rows in the comp, a year early from his contract? It will all come out in the wash though, I just hope Leigh havnt paid him any money up front.