Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Oct 26, 2016 11:17 am  

PurpleCheeseWarrior wrote:

Cas have apparently turned down 3 offers for Solomona: 2 from Union and 1 from League, and apparently we were the club from League. Be interesting to know if this was before or after we re-signed Burgess.

Says in the paper this morning that Sale Sharks has got him for 200K and will loan him back to Castleford for 2017 season.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Oct 26, 2016 11:39 am  

TonyM19 wrote:

Is 'fluid style of rugby' a special code for 'not fancying doing any tackling'?

I think thats unfair, he said he "would never bite the hand that feeds him, but would bite the arms or gouge the eyes of anyone tackling him" whilst pocketing over 1 million

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Oct 26, 2016 12:13 pm  

Just can't shake off the image of the big prop breaking through at Wakefiled and Ashton running away from him

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Nov 01, 2016 5:26 pm  

Heard today George Williams has signed for warrington for 2017 season on 4 year deal . Wigan couldn't or wouldn't match their offer. He will go at end of 2017 season for free .from the figures I was told I can't say I blame him either

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Nov 01, 2016 6:06 pm  

jameswk wrote:

Heard today George Williams has signed for warrington for 2017 season on 4 year deal . Wigan couldn't or wouldn't match their offer. He will go at end of 2017 season for free .from the figures I was told I can't say I blame him either

He's contracted with Wigan until the end of the 2018 season.

He must be due a new deal and a decent increase so my guess is that all these rumours are the usual sort of stuff you get when an agent is trying to eek out an extra few quid from the players current club.

At a guess he'll sign a new deal with us for five years at some point in the next few months and within that he'll probably have an NRL release clause (much like Sam Tomkins did) on the grounds that we get first refusal if/when he comes back.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Nov 01, 2016 6:11 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

He's contracted with Wigan until the end of the 2018 season.

He must be due a new deal and a decent increase so my guess is that all these rumours are the usual sort of stuff you get when an agent is trying to eek out an extra few quid from the players current club.

At a guess he'll sign a new deal with us for five years at some point in the next few months and within that he'll probably have an NRL release clause (much like Sam Tomkins did) on the grounds that we get first refusal if/when he comes back.

I thought he signed a new 4 year deal part way through 2015 meaning like you say he's contracted to us until the end 2018. I can't see him going for a free or did you mean fee James.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Tue Nov 01, 2016 7:36 pm  

That Mon wrote:

I thought he signed a new 4 year deal part way through 2015 meaning like you say he's contracted to us until the end 2018. I can't see him going for a free or did you mean fee James.

It was in May 2014 according to the article I read which you would presume takes him to the end of 2018 (as the contract won't run out in May 2018).

Let's hope it's all just hot air! I'll be extremely annoyed if it isn't and serious questions would need to be asked.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Nov 02, 2016 11:26 am  

Not a player rumour, but heard Red Bull to come on board as a sponsor.

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Nov 02, 2016 1:29 pm  

If Red Bull are the sponsors we might have to change our playing style and "give it t' wings"

Re: Rumours and signings v9 : Wed Nov 02, 2016 1:52 pm  

If Red Bull came on, we'd have four good years, then get no silverware for years afterwards, and that couldn't happen....oh wait.....