Re: Next Season : Tue Jul 01, 2014 12:58 pm  

He certainly was a decent prospect. As a young man with big ambitions he may have learned that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. Wasn't Curtis another young Bradford academy star that fell out with Francis Cummins?

Re: Next Season : Tue Jul 01, 2014 1:07 pm  

dddooommm wrote:

He certainly was a decent prospect. As a young man with big ambitions he may have learned that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. Wasn't Curtis another young Bradford academy star that fell out with Francis Cummins?

He gave that impression. He seemed to think he should have played more game time that he did.

I think he was also in talks to extend his contract in the season leading up to his departure, but the clubs valuation of him was different from what he was requesting.

Re: Next Season : Tue Jul 01, 2014 1:28 pm  

Nothus wrote:

Have a look through the current Championship clubs and tell me which backs are both available and significantly better than Henry. There won't be many...

The one positive to come out of the Leon Pryce story is that we at least managed to get him sat down with Marc Green. ...

Maybe the two are linked?

Leon, I hear you have a younger brother, what's his phone number?

I wouldn't be against Karl re-joining to be honest. But then I did always hold a candle for him many moons ago.

[Pumpetypump]

Re: Next Season : Tue Jul 01, 2014 1:52 pm  

hindle xiii wrote:

I did always hold a candle for him many moons ago.

Bit 50 shades of grey that...

Re: Next Season : Thu Jul 03, 2014 6:03 am  

One thing that's bugging me is people banging on about not preparing for next season. I would imagine that the club are but they can't sign terms now as al superleague contracts will be null and void if relegated.

The club can't announce any new signings either because they don't know for definite what league they'll be in.

I get the feeling from the things being said that they are planning just that and it wouldn't surprise me if a large number of signings are then announced once we are mathematical down

Re: Next Season : Thu Jul 03, 2014 7:57 am  

Am I missing something with today's Leon Pryce article....we could have paid Leon whatever salary he wanted, and under the home grown exemptions only £40k of his salary would have been on the cap. So why is relegation such a deal breaker? Does he still have ambitions of getting an international call up? Or is it trophies he wants? He already won everything the british game had to offer when he was here last time though, so....it's a strange one for me.

Re: Next Season : Thu Jul 03, 2014 8:03 am  

Nothus wrote:

Am I missing something with today's Leon Pryce article....we could have paid Leon whatever salary he wanted, and under the home grown exemptions only £40k of his salary would have been on the cap. So why is relegation such a deal breaker? Does he still have ambitions of getting an international call up? Or is it trophies he wants? He already won everything the british game had to offer when he was here last time though, so....it's a strange one for me.

I thought Leon would be a good signing for us because we were heading to the Championship, not despite it like Pryce says. Fair play to him if he can do it at Hull FC though, I just worry it may end in disappointment like Carvell's move there.

As for ourselves, to be honest I'd be really annoyed if we did take the approach you outlined - "we could have paid Leon whatever salary he wanted" - after everything I'd be shocked if we weren't using the dreaded c words, "cut" and "cloth"!

Re: Next Season : Thu Jul 03, 2014 8:15 am  

Nothus wrote:

Am I missing something with today's Leon Pryce article....we could have paid Leon whatever salary he wanted, and under the home grown exemptions only £40k of his salary would have been on the cap. So why is relegation such a deal breaker? Does he still have ambitions of getting an international call up? Or is it trophies he wants? He already won everything the british game had to offer when he was here last time though, so....it's a strange one for me.

This is exactly what confused me

Re: Next Season : Thu Jul 03, 2014 8:39 am  

Nothus wrote:

Am I missing something with today's Leon Pryce article....we could have paid Leon whatever salary he wanted, and under the home grown exemptions only £40k of his salary would have been on the cap. So why is relegation such a deal breaker? Does he still have ambitions of getting an international call up? Or is it trophies he wants? He already won everything the british game had to offer when he was here last time though, so....it's a strange one for me.

I think its simply a case of a player wanting to play at the highest level available to him week in week out. If there had been no superleague club offer or we were still in superleague he'd have signed for us I'm sure, as it is he's just decided to play at the level he clearly belives hes able to (quite rightly for him IMHO). I'd have loved Leon back but if he can play on in super league then fair play.

It also sounds positive that Marc Green has said the club will look to "invest strongly" in the playing staff if we go down, we'll have to wait and see who we attract/who we let go/who we retain once relegation is confirmed. Clearly though talks are going on regarding next season, its just we've not heard about them, but we have heard about this one beacuse its Leon.

Re: Next Season : Thu Jul 03, 2014 9:29 am  

hindle xiii wrote:

As for ourselves, to be honest I'd be really annoyed if we did take the approach you outlined - "we could have paid Leon whatever salary he wanted" - after everything I'd be shocked if we weren't using the dreaded c words, "cut" and "cloth"!

Haha! That's not quite what I meant, I was assuming Leon wouldn't take the p*ss when it came to salary requests. But if Marc Green is willing to throw six figures at a court hearing, that's basically Leon's salary right there gone in a sniff.