The fact is that sportsmen and women in lots of sports don't earn life changing sums of money , although some do . Someone mentioned boxing , one of the toughest sports in the world and unless your at world level the money offered is pretty poor . In all sports your going to get the top earners and the lower earners . Had Bryn not gone through the Bradford shambles I recon he would still be playing . At 26 he had probable a maximum of six years left . That time would soon fly past then he could take up a career doing something else . The fact he has chosen to retire is probably more a reflection on what he has gone through with Bradford than rugby league as a whole . Sadly he will probable miss the game far more than the game will miss him . Good luck to him whatever he chooses to do .

My mistake, he's not plastering he's flagging !!!!, I think its his girlfriends fathers building company he's going working for in the States, I'm sure she's American.

How's he got a VISA?

I agree, especially the last sentence. But athletics, is a bit like cricket (both sports I like), for the average event there is no-one there, save a few high profile games (& latterly 20/20). Cricket makes a fortune from the Indian limited over game but I struggle to understand how athletics pulls in so much money, unless it is from government.

50 k a year as a lower league propr for maximum 15 years or 30K a year for the next 30 years?

What youve got to take into account is that some of these guys bodies are ruined by the time they retire.