Wigan loaned him from Canberra in their troubled relegation fight.

He could walk for free anyway - we could never have forced him to go to Salford. If he'd not got a NRL gig and he'd turned down an extended deal with us, then I'm sure we'd have been more receptive to Salford's offer. But he did get a NRL club, so the issue didn't arise.

wouldnt suprise me if he gets fed up with being third choice and returns on loan or maybe newcastle would accept a nice cash bid in pre season !!!!

The same reason star players in the championship sometimes take a place on the fringes of a SL squad, to prove themselves. Salford may be aiming up to becoming a bigger fish, but compared to the NRL it will be in a small pond.

Seriously - the Aussie press regularly fails to distinguish between Hull KR and Hull FC. We did a quiz thing on here with some Newcastle Knights fans a couple of years ago and they didn't know who James Roby is.

Our chairman is a solicitor I'm sure he'd have a clause within that NRL release clause regards where he goes till the end of 2014 when he'd have been OOC anyway.

If Newcastle have him contacted for the 2014 season and say another super league team enquired Newcatle could sell him to who they want as he's their property now.

Same with Gareth Hock Parmatta own his contract for next year but if Salford decide to pay a transfer fee Paramatta could sell him to us for next year and theirs nothing Wigan can do about it.

Beau Henry seems to tick most of the boxes. There's not much point being 15 stone if you're a scaredy cat, but it sounds like he has the talent. Regards himself as having the ability to organise and bring a solid kicking game, google tells me. Sounds like he could complement Burns pretty well - as a highly skilled show pony to Burns niggly little terrier.

Hock didn't activate a clause though. And did Wigan not negotiate first refusal on him and Mossop if they come back anyway - I thought Lenegan said they did?

You could be right, though for it to be pre-planned, it'd require an uncharacteristic degree of duplicity from Dobson and an (slightly )unusual example of us taking our eye completely off the ball.

I get that Salford might be on the verge of something big, and we might be behind you in the queue for players. But surely you appreciate that we're both well down the pecking order from the likes of Newcastle?!

The halfback position at Newcastle is wide open next year.
Kurt Gidley was supposed to be our gun halfback this year, but like the last several years he has played very few games and next year, if he plays at all, he will mostly play hooker.
We have bought Graig Gower for the rest of this season, but he hasn't spent a minute in the 7 yet.
The guy who has filled the position for the last few years while others have been injured is Tyrone Roberts, who is basically a one trick pony who scores a few tries with a good dummy and has a bit of speed. Our main playmaker is 5/8 Jarod Mullen, who could do with someone to help him out a bit.
In short, if he can outplay Roberts, who is the least talented player in our side, and if Gidley is out for his usual 20 weeks a year, he will play a lot of games.

Thanks roopy you may have stopped another ten pages of conspiracy theories

Salford are down the pecking order with some championship clubs for me.

Throwing it at pensioners Morley and meli isn't going to do anything for you though

You could have a billionaire owner you still can't spend more then anyone else on wages So far you've signed an average import and two over the hill players. For the money your laying out I hope better players are around the corner.