He earns the equivalent of over 400k per season on his current deal. I know we have cap space but I doubt were even close to that amount. I'm guessing he's currently the highest paid player in the sport. One report suggests he earns 1/5 of the Cowboy's salary cap.

Yer but he's earned more than that on a recent accumulator at stan james

He'll come here for nowt now!!

if hull are looking for a prop and a scrum half in australia, doesnt it stand to reason some space would have to be made on the cap, even taking into consideration the recent departures.even dobson who was playing reserve level rugby cost 80grand a season to go to our neighbours(or so im led to believe), and a decent aussie prop wont come cheap.how much was cusack etc on?

Apparently Carl Webb is available for reasonable money (paramatta only offering 90k). Would be a quota spot on a prop though.

what im getting at is do you pay decent money(though granted not top £s) on a stand by player,or will he have a bigger role,ie not the reserve

I thought the parra deal was finalised?

He`s signed for Bradford . About 2 weeks ago !

Just checked and your absolutely correct. Great deal for Parra if they can get his form back. Small salary for a big player.

I'm confused, is this Ainscough?? I think i'm a bit slow on the posts/references being made here!!

I thought it was Raynor he was talking about.

Sheldon has a fantastic wealth of knowledge regarding the NRL (or so he makes me think). As a non Sky subscriber i have very limited knowledge apart from the big games. Which is why i have (without asking him first) enlisted Sheldon as my personal knowledgerer regarding all things Australia!!

AAaaaahhhhhhh, that does explain it.....

Went under my radar that one... i was on holiday at the time!! Thanks for that!!

NP.

It actually brought a fair few chuckles on the VT as the retained Worrincy brought in Sibbit from Salford and Raynor from Crusaders all in about a week.

Worrincy and Sibbit what a SR team that will.

You sure about that?

no smoke without fire

any names we might be looking at in aussie?

I hate this phrase, a moronic term.

I hate "<insert player name here> will only get better". Utter rubbish. Have you got a crystal ball or something?

Tbf it's usually followed by 'under the expert coaching of jus......'

ThINK about it

Crazy rumours going round Fev that you've signed Hardaker and in return he'll be loaned back to us next season, plus friendlies?



If true, why stop there? Just buy the whole team

Cos we aint got an extra tenner to spare mate

After his performance in the Final, I've seen people on a few different SL boards saying that they've heard rumours that he's linked to them.



He looked a very good prospect, though, and his try scoring record this season hasbeen great.