Boss Hog wrote:
The other significant negative would have been if things don`t work out with Sam Burgess and he leaves, we would have had a Marquee player on a long contract taking the mick.
Interesting further reading on the Tom Burgess saga. He's to be the highest paid player in the league on a 3-year contract
Some soundbites from the two clubs:
Ian Watson: “I just told the club to go and have a crack, it’s worth a shot to go after him".
Sam Burgess: “Tom told me exactly where he was at and I had a perfect amount of time to counter-offer, but the numbers were just out of this world. I’ve got to put my head coach’s hat on, it wouldn’t have been the right thing for the club and with the salary cap as it is, I can’t do too much with it in the near future. I’ve got to be responsible in that respect. It’s the first time I couldn’t afford my younger brother.But I have to be responsible for Warrington as a club. Huddersfield came with a three-year deal and we just weren’t there. Financially we were way off where they were, but that’s the nature of the beast".
Talks never really developed too far once it became clear that Huddersfield had tabled a monster deal. It was something Warrington weren’t prepared to match on two fronts: the length of the deal, and of course, the salary itself.Are we finally learning as a club? This is actually quite encouraging.
