Re: Illegal approach? : Mon Mar 07, 2016 2:43 pm  

bobsmyuncle wrote:

Why presume that? Surely that is not a fair comment

Because they are the only people that knew about it other than the club. The club had nothing to gain from making it public. Quite the opposite. Have you seen the state of things surrounding Leigh since this came out? It has been a nightmare. Never has a so called 'banter page' been so inappropriately named! No advantage to Leigh at all in going to the press with this and disrupting the club and the team who are having enough problems as it is.

Brierley gets to put himself in the shop window by going public with the fact that he is 'up for grabs' in 4 weeks time. There is also a LOT of previous for info about Brierley being leaked to the press. His 'Rowley clause' that was made public within an hour of Rowley leaving the club as just one example.

Only one party had anything to gain by leaking this to the press and it wouldn't be the first time it had happened.

Re: Illegal approach? : Mon Mar 07, 2016 2:45 pm  

At least all this is deflecting away from the reason why Chase isn't playing.

Re: Illegal approach? : Mon Mar 07, 2016 2:50 pm  

rugbyreddog wrote:

At least all this is deflecting away from the reason why Chase isn't playing.

He's got flu, keep up....

Re: Illegal approach? : Mon Mar 07, 2016 2:53 pm  

Nozzy wrote:

Never has a so called 'banter page' been so inappropriately named!

If people are acting like knobheads then the appropriateness of the name would be about average. Joining anything on FB with the word 'banter' in the name is what makes them knobheads.

The club had nothing to gain from making it public.

Quite. It is absolutely not in the best interests of the club, either short or long term.

Might be in the best short term interests of whoever drove a coach with Leigh running through his veins, a senior member of the board and the club's top try scorer over the last two years out though. Particularly if that person spent the whole off season telling everyone else how in his opinion the rest of the world trails in his wake. Such a person might represent the club without being the club.

Lots of possible scenarios.

Re: Illegal approach? : Mon Mar 07, 2016 2:59 pm  

Highlander wrote:

He's got flu, keep up....

and there was me thinking it was a hip injury...

Re: Illegal approach? : Mon Mar 07, 2016 4:26 pm  

Well Brierley has been on gmr this afternoon and said he's never given a 4 week notice,come on ryan read your statement where you had given 4 weeks notice and you could be out of work on 1 April also hull and Huddersfield was named as clubs by Brierley that wanted him,his story changes every day so you wonder why we don't believe him

Re: Illegal approach? : Mon Mar 07, 2016 4:34 pm  

Statement from Ferres/Bulls

BRADFORD Bulls would like to clarify comments, which were made in the media regarding Ryan Brierley’s agent, Craig Harrison.

Steve Ferres, Bradford Bulls Managing Director, can confirm he spoke with Harrison. However, his comments published in the media regarding the position of his client have been misinterpreted.

Ferres is in contact with Harrison, who has several clients who play for the Bulls and has always acted in a professional manner when dealing with the club.

"When I spoke with Craig it was public knowledge Ryan wanted to leave Leigh Centurions, subject to a clause in his contract – Craig did not inform me of this," said Ferres.

"I simply asked him to inform me if Ryan became available."

Re: Illegal approach? : Mon Mar 07, 2016 4:43 pm  

Bull Mania wrote:

Statement from Ferres/Bulls

BRADFORD Bulls would like to clarify comments, which were made in the media regarding Ryan Brierley’s agent, Craig Harrison.

Steve Ferres, Bradford Bulls Managing Director, can confirm he spoke with Harrison. However, his comments published in the media regarding the position of his client have been misinterpreted.

Ferres is in contact with Harrison, who has several clients who play for the Bulls and has always acted in a professional manner when dealing with the club.

"When I spoke with Craig it was public knowledge Ryan wanted to leave Leigh Centurions, subject to a clause in his contract – Craig did not inform me of this," said Ferres.

"I simply asked him to inform me if Ryan became available."

I don't think anyone at leigh believes Bradford did make an offer to ryan, but it doesn't mean he didn't say it.

Re: Illegal approach? : Mon Mar 07, 2016 4:46 pm  

No the media don't do that according to fans that believe everything that been written about Derek Beaumont

Re: Illegal approach? : Mon Mar 07, 2016 4:54 pm  

Can we please have more Leigh fans on here defending Derek, we might just fall for it if there's a few more