A few seasons back a work mate of mine said to me "I see it says in the Daily Mirror your nephew is going out on a months loan to Aberdeen"

I replied "No he's going to Oldham 'til the end of the season"

Of course he was right because he'd read it in a national newspaper, that weekend he scored an 87th minute penalty for Oldham it was the first goal at Boundary Park for about seven games.

Newspapers are worse than message boards for rumours.

who wrote the 'article'? Nosey Parker cause we all know he gets everything right .............

I remember the hubby ringing him to retract a story about a member of our staff that he wrote that was totally wrong and made up. They put a small retraction in the foliowing week but it didn't compensate the distress the story caused.
Sometimes the press get it wrong sometimes they are right . In this case if they've got itbwrong, bet we don't see an apology , if he does eventually song for us, they'll just say they were right , if he doesn't they'll say he changed his mind !
No doubt we'd be interested if available though.

So it seems Andy was posting in response to the mention of illegalities.......and nothing else....

In what legal sense is talking to someone, contract or not, illegal? Which law is being broken?

Most of these so called laws in sport are gentlemens agreements, not actual law. Like the Bosman ruling in football, most of these things are a court case away from being proven to be the opposite, e.g. preventing someone talking to someone else about new employment is actually illegal, not the other way around!

Rules of Sporting Organisations are made by members of that sporting body not by Common Law.

Should a member of a sporting body break a particular rule it would be dealt with by that sporting body and would be nothing to do with statute.

And thus not enforcable in a court of law.

The article was written by Paul Bennet, page 13 of the league Weekly under the heading.
"Barlow agrees Centurians deal."
Quote:
Leigh have made forward Sam Barlow the first signing for 2014, League Weekly understands.
The 25 year old prop currently on loan at Featherstone from Halifax has penned a two year contract with the Centurions.etc etc."

Don't know about it being the first signing, must have forgotten about Brierley.

Brierley was more of a re-signing to be honest. Don't particularly rate Barlow.

This would have to be the worst signing since Andy Hobson

Just think next season we might be able to sing weve got Penky youve got Porky to you again........

Just think how we went on when Hobson, Davison and Bloomie were on the field at the same time.

It was a case of watching the opposition taking penalties with the occasional game of rugby league in and amonst.

He was at the game today... Can't read too much into it I suppose considering he's still a Halifax player but he wasn't with their team of officials and non-playing staff.

Barlow posted on Fev FB group earlier this afternoon saying not signed anywhere, will decide his future at end of season and loves it at fev!

So make of that what you will