Have I missed something? Who says we were trying to avoid going over the cap?

If Uate isn’t a done deal, then something very odd is going on.

It’s in the press in Australia. It’s on the NRL website. Its on Manly’s website. It’s even in the Fiji Times. The only place where it hasn’t been confirmed is Huddersfield!

We are talking the Giants here Steve.

With what happened with Woolford perhaps they are waiting until a work visa is approved for him?

Hastings would appear to have a clean record and the Manly incident shouldn’t make any difference but I would again see the logic in announcing after his Visa is approved if we do sign him.

As far has Wakeman is concerned you have it utterly wrong.

So what is it then? As at time he went as we were gonna go over the cap

Then we must have gone over the cap as Ormsby and Wakeman were here at the start of the season....

Hastings Mum is English so trying to speed up visa that route i think so may be a few weeks, on another note brough telling players he’s off to wakey next year as they have offered him 2 years

Yep who haven’t announced it because
UATE HAS NOT YET SIGNED A CONTRACT!

Interesting. If his mum is English “not by descent” then he’s almost certainly a British citizen and won’t need a visa.

He seems to think he has.

Does he? I’ve not heard him say it!
I did hear Simon Woolford on thursday say that they are very hopeful but he has not yet signed a contract.
Until that signature is on the paper we cannot say we have signed him.

Imagine if saints had announced griffin after he’d agreed terms and shook hands on a deal- only for him to change his mind and sign on the dotted line for Leeds!

The wonders of the internet mean you too can read the Aussie media:

“I’ve recently signed overseas,” Uate told NRL.com

“I’m excited now because it’s about my family and we’re starting that move from next year.”

“Overseas”
Lovely.
Hope he enjoys France....

Sorry she’s American so must be a grandparent who’s English unless she was born in England