There's the simple reality of it, a bit of everyday gossip and banter taken out of context, it is what it is, an unfounded rumours which at some stage in our support of the club we've all been guilty of believing, why the need for some people to seriously get their nickers in a twist and post 5 or 6 posts lecturing on the morals of the OP.s post is beyond me.

Who’s the source then?

I would hope that the club are now in a more comfortable financial position where we don't HAVE to listen to any offers should they come in. Hopefully, gone are the days of simply accepting any cash offer that comes in for a player, regardless of their importance to the team.

Thanks must go to MC and CB for getting the financial state of the club under some control.

I can fully understand your frustration in that case, my post was not aimed at you personally, I simply used part of your post to illustrate how easy it is to set these rumours going, and also in the case of other posters who choose to sit on the moral high ground on a regular basis who have chosen this thread to a needless challenge on the OP.

PS. Apologies If you are not one of the posters who take take the moral high ground at every opportunity as I don't want to be accused of discrimination by some.

Coming from you that's rich, my irony meter has broken big style - you owe me a fiver. Seriously, read some of your own posts before taking the moral high ground, which incidentally is exactly what you've just done

Does anyone remember when the rumour mill was nothing more pernicious than who had been spotted doing donuts in the Superbowl carpark? I preferred that - much less harmful.

I guess there's a lesson in this - if you know someone who works at the club and they share confidential info with which you then repeat, a) you are risking their job and b) you are potentially damaging the club; the conclusion, I would've thought, is self evident?

I tend to find if someone tries to give some credibility to what they are saying by making reference to someone in the know its usually to be taken with a pinch of salt. I also get "told" things by people who know people but most of it is pure conjecture and speculation and until I see a club statement its just rumour

I just hope this doesn't lead to any unsettling within the club as the strength of feeling is obvious

Keinhorst is ooc at Leeds this year so couldn't really be offered as a makeweight anyway.

And we also have an abundance of centres and second rowers, so wouldnt require him anyway. If a player was offered you would expect it to be a winger

Hi Horbury,

Just thought I'd drop you a PM, because your effort to spread an unfounded rumour is all over the place. You've got a good balance of detail and vagueness, but in the wrong places. You really need to plan them better.

Firstly, Leeds was a good call, particularly as you threw in a former Trinity servant. Hall is getting older and Briscoe a bit hit and miss. But Wigan? You started to lose it here. They've too many good wingers.

Secondly, too much detail in the figures. This is where you keep it vague. Keep it simple. "Heard Leeds and Wigan are showing an interest". At some point, they might have done, and it keeps it sufficiently simple to be credible. But you went in with hard facts and figures. Easy to refute.

Thirdly, you went vague where you should hit it big. "Chinese whispers but come from someone I know has club connections". That simply leads it open to attack. You're admitting that its potentially nonsense, and "has club connections"? That could include anyone with even a passing interest, like those who went to see the pre-match stripper at the Talk of the Town back at the end of the eighties. Too vague. No, go in hard, with "a very reliable source within the club". That's how you do it.

Hope this helps.

We are in PM's, right.....?

sanctimonious
ˌsaŋ(k)tɪˈməʊnɪəs/Submit
adjectivederogatory
making a show of being morally superior to other people.
"what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first?"
synonyms: self-righteous, holier-than-thou, churchy, pious, pietistic, moralizing, unctuous, smug, superior, priggish, mealy-mouthed, hypocritical, insincere, for form's sake, to keep up appearances; More

I think the above applies to you and I assume you feel the opposite - hence I'm not confused. What we have here is a difference of opinion, keep at it you'll get it in the end.