Reading between the lines this is what happened, Mickey has told his team mates he's taken up the offer Hull tabled 'as it was too good to turn down'. So it looks like Mickey put the record straight. Wouldn't expect him to go to the press tho'.

The reason for mentioning money is to cut off the usual rubbish about it been for the love of FC just like when you signed GE.
You have your budget and we have ours and that's just the way it is.

Do you think NH would of come out with a statement to the papers if Paea had signed for another club?. Somehow i think not, Hudgell is just bitter and twisted towards us and has just made himself look like a right plank.

Nobody signs for the love of any club, especially imports. I don't remember anyone stating that Gareth Ellis signed for that reason either, tbh.

But let's not pretend that it's all about money, and implying it is, is silly. It's about striking the balance between maximising income without diminishing your ambition, like it was for GE, and something Elliott Whitehead would do well to remember.

If he has signed for ANYONE, it shows his true character as he has been quoted as saying he is still weighing up his options. All he needs to say is 'I have agreed a deal, but it's confidential at this time'

I couldn't give a toss who he has signed for, he is leaving us and we need to get someone in for 2014.

Nobody ever does that.

Your chairman is the only one mentioning clubs, which he has no right to do.

Making out he is still looking after having signed for another club is showing immense disrespect. If he had come out and said 'I have signed for Hull' I for one would have though a damned sight higher of him.

Oh come on, players announce things when they feel it's right, nobody comes out the day they sign and announce it. It is not up to NH to announce where his out of contract players have signed.

If the article had been from an 'IF he's signed for FC then tell us' point of view it would have been better.

He mentioned it as the player and agent are clearly playing a game for some strange reason.

You don't need to name the club to do that though, do you?

And when he doesn't and it then it comes out that it's FC?
He will get slated from all sides and you know it.

It does occur that it is possible for there to have been a misunderstanding, based on our partial official knowledge.

If MP rejected our offer, because there was a much better deal on the table from Hull that we couldn't match, perhaps NH interpreted that as 'I'm off to Hull', rather than 'Hull is currently my best option'. This would explain Mather's (otherwise strange) quotes in the HDMail and Mickey's follow-up to it, as well as fitting slightly better with Gentle's comment about waiting and other options (though that could easily just have been diplomacy). If that is what has happened, and he did go to the NRL after all... well actually I think I prefer him going to Hull over that scenario!

Unlikely, but the internet loves a conspiracy theory. Although that is actually the opposite of one, now I think on it.

Who? And what for?

NH for not being honest with his own fans and by FC fans because they can.

DROP THIS MAN NOW. HE WILL BE RUNNING AROUND FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON WITH ONE THING ON HIS MIND HOW TO KISS AN FC BADGE. JUST DROP HIM, GIVE MORE GAME TIME TO OTHERS WHO WILL FILL HIS BOOTS NEXT SEASON. ALONG WITH SHANNON MCDOUGALL TO ME THEY ARE NOTHING NOW!!