So Leeds have signed Brierley for 2017 and are willing to let him come to Huddersfield for £45 K.

Does that mean that you are admitting that and are wanting the £45 K to pay for the fine you will get for an illegal approach to a contracted Leigh player before the May deadline ?

Yes exactly what I was thinking.

The exact opposite is the truth.

Are you sure about that? Bet Ryan told you that......or his agent. They played a game of bluff for an extra 15k and had their bluff called.

have you any idea how ridiculous that sounds.

If he does sign for you, then you have a potentially very good FB. He has royally sheeite on my club by listening to some very poor advice imo, which has soured the memory's he had created.

So according to Ryan Brierleys personal friend Frosties (a Leeds fan), Ryan was supposed to sign for Leeds if Leigh didn't get promotion- neither happened, the new angle was that he'd been loaned back to Leigh and signed for Leeds for 2017 season, all that doesn't wash with the statements either Ryan or the Leigh club have made in recent weeks.
The latest gem is that Leeds are talking to hudds about us allowing to take brierley for 45k and Ryan isn't happy.

So basically according to this chap Leeds want us to pay them 45k for a player that they can't have signed without making an illegal approach. Yeah course we will pay you for that privilege

I'm not sure but I think this Frosties Fella needs to get a new best friend cause this one is taking the pee!!!

Let me get this straight then from what i've read....We are supposedly signing a player from LEIGH, who doesn't even want to sign for us anyway but are having to pay LEEDS for him ???.
Can someone actually explain how that can happen ?? i am presuming Brierley is still a Leigh player so surely we'd pay any fee to them ?
What has us signing a player from Leigh got to do with Leeds ??

Absolutely nothing hopefully!!

haven't seen anything of Brierley (yet) to suggest he is anywhere near good enough for SL, and to suggest Ellis can't lace Brierley's boots is a tad disrespectful. Ellis has been a regular for top 4/5 teams in SL and has done fine for both us and cas!, Brierley on the other hand, like the rest of the Leigh team, went missing and their backsides fell out when they had to lift their game another level, week after week.

I have heard that he won't be played in the halves anyway.

According to the Leigh owner, Huddersfield made LEIGH two offers for Brierley, after he, (the Leigh owner) had discussed with Paul Anderson and Keiron Purtill, what their intentions were. (Ryan had mentioned that Huddersfield and the two Hull clubs were interested in him)

The Leigh owner said that the Huddersfield coaching set up had discussed Ryan, for 2017, (after his current contract with LEIGH expires) as a full back. Our owner then spoke to yours, who made the two (rejected) offers.

All the above is available to watch/listen to on Leigh Centurions TV - and would suggest that Ryan is currently a contracted LEIGH player.

So is the suggestion that Brierley is actually secretly a Leeds player on loan at Leigh then ? not sure something as that would be kept quiet ! surely someone would have known about this and reported it ?? Sounds like something the RFL should be poking their noses into if these 'suggestions' are serious !!

That's the claim but I think the going ons with Brierley and Leigh over the last few weeks clearly show he isn't on loan there......but some love to appear "in the loop" even when the story falls apart and refuse to believe what they were told was flat out incorrect.

People forget that nothing is sure until the contract is signed. Darrell griffin being an example. He had agreed to sign for Saint Helens, terms were set, arrangements made....... Then he changed his mind at the last moment and signed for Leeds. just because a club has shown an interest and made an offer doesn't mean it's going to happen!